Olivehurst, California.
Typical home $447,743 (-0.7% in a year), asking rent $2,235 (-0.9%). Yuba City, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,180 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,228 -1%
- $450,971$447,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $30,306 +7%
- $417,436$447,743 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Olivehurst$2,350
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Olivehurst, CA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Olivehurst, CA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Olivehurst runs $872/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $3,107 a month against $2,235 rent: a $2,350 mortgage payment, plus $278 property tax and $479 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Olivehurst
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$3,107
- Renting$2,235
- Mortgage only$2,350
Property tax · $278/mo 0.74% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Yuba County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $479/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Olivehurst, Yuba County, California
Olivehurst, in Yuba County, had 16,595 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $83,214 a year and half less, against $76,373 across Yuba County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Yuba County was 6.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Olivehurst is a community with a young population, with residents who are younger on the whole than in much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Homes and rents here are expensive, though, and a small share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in the building trades, or in manufacturing. Workplaces in Olivehurst itself include D & D Cabinets-Savage Design, a cabinet and countertop maker, and American Wood Fibers, which produces wood shavings and mulch. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home. Across Yuba County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Water is close by: the Yuba River and Ellis Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and the Bear River is nearby too. For a day out, the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County is a short drive away, and South Yuba River State Park, a protected area, is a longer drive. Winters are cool and fairly wet, and summers are hot.
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- 5,480households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 35 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Yuba County had 20,975 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 61°. About 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Marysville Yuba County Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Olivehurst
- D & D Cabinets-Savage DesignCountertops, wood, manufacturing150
- Yuba County Public Works GarageGeneral services departments, government54
- EcmdGeneral warehousing and storage28
- OlivehurstMail and parcel delivery24
- American Wood FibersMisc wood shavings mulching23
- American Medical Response21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 300 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Olivehurst’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Yuba County and the Yuba City, CA metro.
Olivehurst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Olivehurst$447,743
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Olivehurst listings, and the typical home goes pending in 30 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Olivehurst32.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Olivehurst30
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Olivehurst124
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Olivehurst33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Olivehurst$459,280
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Olivehurst101.00%
Zip codes with a Olivehurst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olivehurst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.