Penryn, California.
Typical home $942,533 (+2.4% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,596 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,200 +2%
- $920,334$942,533 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,470 +8%
- $870,063$942,533 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.
- Penryn$4,947
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.
Typical home values in Penryn, CA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Penryn, Placer County, California
Penryn, in Placer County, had 1,150 people in the 2020 census. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Penryn is a very small community in Placer County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Few residents live below the poverty line, and homes here are valued well above what is typical across much of the country. Winters are cool and wet, with the coldest weather in December, while summers turn hot, especially in July.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Placer County, Sutter Roseville Medical Center is among the largest workplaces, along with several California Department of Transportation facilities. The usual trip to work is a moderate drive rather than a long one.
Things to do. Auburn State Recreation Area, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Folsom Lake, a reservoir. The North Fork American River is also a short drive away, and the Crocker Art Museum in the Sacramento area is a longer drive.
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- 2%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
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 December, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 63°. About 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auburn 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 across the county; Penryn has two of its own. 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
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Penryn’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very low. 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.
Penryn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Penryn$942,533
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Penryn16
Zip codes with a Penryn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Penryn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.