Plumas Eureka, California.
Typical home $412,945 (-2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,013 (+88%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $9,054 -2%
- $421,999$412,945 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $23,674 +6%
- $389,271$412,945 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.
- Plumas Eureka$2,167
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Plumas Eureka, CA fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Plumas Eureka, Plumas County, California
Plumas Eureka, in Plumas County, had 334 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. Unemployment in Plumas County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Plumas County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Plumas Eureka is a very small mountain community in Plumas County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and a good deal of snow, while summers turn warm in July. Typical home values are well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than many people might expect for a place this remote.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and government. Across Plumas County, some of the largest workplaces are the California Department of Transportation facilities, which maintain highways and bridges, Sierra Pacific Industries' Quincy Division, a sawmill operation, and Plumas Unified, the school district. Unemployment in the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has a slightly smaller number of jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Plumas–Eureka State Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is the Western Pacific Railroad Museum. For more time outdoors, Tahoe National Forest and Plumas National Forest are a longer drive away, and so is Lake Davis, a reservoir popular for time by the water.
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- 6%below the poverty line
What people in Plumas County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Plumas County had 6,610 jobs in 2025, 1.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 86° and lows near 45°. About 38 inches of snow and 23 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Portola weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Plumas County
- Sierra Pacific Industries, Quincy DivisionWood chips made in sawmills289
- Plumas UnifiedSchool district200FTE
- Feather River Community College DistrictUniversity or college190
- Eastern Plumas Health CareCritical access hospital144FTE
- Plumas District Hospital CAHCritical access hospital129FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture117
- Seneca District HospitalCritical access hospital93FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture72
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,074 people in all across the county; Plumas Eureka has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Plumas Eureka’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Plumas County.
Plumas Eureka home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Plumas Eureka$412,945
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Plumas Eureka listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Plumas Eureka28.38%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Plumas Eureka27
Zip codes with a Plumas Eureka address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Plumas Eureka — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.