Pilot Hill, California.
Typical home $658,310 (+1.3% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,560 (+82%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,506 +1%
- $649,803$658,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $32,631 +5%
- $625,679$658,310 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.
- Pilot Hill$3,455
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 68 years.
Typical home values in Pilot Hill, CA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Pilot Hill, El Dorado County, California
The Census does not count Pilot Hill on its own, so the figures here are El Dorado County's. Half the county's households earn more than $108,845 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 77% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 23% are rented. Unemployment in El Dorado County was 5.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in El Dorado 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pilot Hill sits in El Dorado County, where most homes are lived in by their owners, and those homes cost more than they do across most of the country. Household incomes run higher than the national typical, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than in most of the country. Winters are cool, summers are hot, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls each year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or retail. Unemployment has edged down over the past year, and the county has gained jobs recently. A large share of adults hold a college degree, commutes run a little longer than the national typical, and more people work from home than in most of the country.
Things to do. The American River, a river a longer drive away, is one of the best known waterways nearby. Folsom Lake, a reservoir a short drive away, offers open water for boating and time outdoors. Auburn State Recreation Area, a protected area a short drive away, is a good choice for walks and quiet days among the trails.
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- 76,185households
- 46.1median age
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 22%work from home
What people in El Dorado County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. El Dorado County had 59,203 jobs in 2025, 1.1% 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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Dorado County
- Shingle Springs Tribal Gaming AuthorityCasinos1,273
- Marshall HospitalGeneral hospital1,076FTE
- Broadridge, EDHPrint shops, digital739
- Barton Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital655FTE
- El Dorado Union High SchoolsSchool district581FTE
- CAL FireCal fire512
- Mountain HeavenlyAlpine skiing facilities without accommodations419
- Buckeye Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district410FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 88 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,149 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across El Dorado 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 El Dorado County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Pilot Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pilot Hill$658,310
- 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.
- Pilot Hill9
Zip codes with a Pilot Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pilot Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.