Olympic Valley, California.
, asking rent $7,412 . Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,997 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Living in Olympic Valley, Placer County, California
The Census does not count Olympic Valley on its own, so the figures here are Placer County's. Half the county's households earn more than $115,998 a year and half less; 7% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 75% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in Placer County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Placer County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Olympic Valley is a mountain valley in the Sierra Nevada, within Placer County, California, and it was the site of the Winter Olympics. Winters here are colder than in most of the country and bring far more snow than most American towns see, while summers are warm and bright. Life is shaped by the seasons, and the mountains draw people together in every month of the year.
Work. Across Placer County, unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and there are slightly more jobs than the year before. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and a fair number of people work from home at least part of the time.
Things to do. Palisades Tahoe, a ski area, is a short drive away and is a natural stop for winter visitors. Donner Lake, a reservoir, is also a short drive away and offers quiet water for a summer afternoon. Lake Tahoe, a lake a longer drive away, is one of the best known lakes in the region and is worth the trip.
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- 157,954households
- 42.5median age
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What people in Placer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Placer County had 188,212 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 40° and lows near 21°; warmest in July, with highs near 78° and lows near 46°. About 179 inches of snow and 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Tahoe City weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Placer County
- Sutter Roseville Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,633FTE
- Thunder Valley Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos2,232
- KFH - RosevilleGeneral hospital2,038FTE
- 24 Hour Home CareSenior citizens centers1,385
- City of Roseville Main OfficesPersonnel offices, government1,300
- Penumbra, Inc. - Roseville CampusCatheters manufacturing1,258
- Roseville City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,143FTE
- Sierra CollegeTwo-year college1,122
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 362 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,395 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- AvalanchesVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Placer County, 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 Placer County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Olympic Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 14 Olympic Valley listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Olympic Valley7.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Olympic Valley62
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Olympic Valley12
Zip codes with a Olympic Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Olympic Valley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.