Pinecrest, California.
Typical home $326,499 (-0.9% in a year). Sonora, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$706 (+70%) since Feb 2021.
- 1 year
- Down $2,952 -1%
- $329,451$326,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $35,067 -10%
- $361,566$326,499 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.
- Pinecrest$1,714
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Pinecrest, CA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Pinecrest, Tuolumne County, California
The Census does not count Pinecrest on its own, so the figures here are Tuolumne County's. Half the county's households earn more than $77,404 a year and half less; 10% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 74% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Tuolumne County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tuolumne County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pinecrest sits in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, within Tuolumne County, where the forested hills and mountain air shape daily life. Across Tuolumne County, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than in many parts of the country. Household incomes are comparatively steady, and only a small share of residents live below the poverty line.
Work. Across Tuolumne County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Professional and business services and government also employ many people. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, and job numbers have edged up slightly. Fewer adults hold a university degree than in many parts of the country, and commutes are fairly short, with only a modest share working from home.
Things to do. Stanislaus National Forest, a protected area a longer drive away, offers wide stretches of woods and mountain country to explore. Emigrant Wilderness, a protected area a short drive away, is a good choice for hikers who want quiet trails and open landscapes. Hetch Hetchy, a reservoir a longer drive away, is another popular destination for those who enjoy water views in the mountains. Winters here are cold and snowy and the rain is heavy, while summers are warm, so the seasons shape which outings suit you best.
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- 22,690households
- 48.4median age
- 25%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Tuolumne County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tuolumne County had 18,392 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 47° and lows near 33°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 59°. About 51 inches of snow and 37 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hetch Hetchy weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tuolumne County
- Adventist Health SonoraGeneral hospital872FTE
- Chicken Ranch Casino721120 casino hotels786
- casinoCasinos488
- Rush Creek LodgeHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities350
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters340
- Evergreen LodgeHotels with golf courses, tennis courts, and/or other health spa facilities247
- Columbia CollegeTwo-year college204
- SPISawmills180
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,732 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Tuolumne 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 Tuolumne County and the Sonora, CA metro.
Pinecrest home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pinecrest$326,499
- 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.
- Pinecrest10
Zip codes with a Pinecrest address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pinecrest — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.