Saint Helena, California.
Typical home $1,630,683 (-0.5% in a year), asking rent $3,225 . Napa, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,056 (+56%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,591 -1%
- $1,639,273$1,630,683 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $229,873 -12%
- $1,860,555$1,630,683 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.
- Saint Helena$8,559
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Saint Helena, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saint Helena, Napa County, California
Saint Helena is a city of 5,430 people in Napa County. Half its households earn more than $148,750 a year and half less, against $111,471 across Napa County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Napa County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Saint Helena is a small city in Napa County where most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run well above the county's, relatively few residents live below the poverty line, and typical home values are high. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild and often damp, while summers turn properly hot, and snow is rare.
Work. Residents work in manufacturing, professional and business services, schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Saint Helena Unified, the school district, along with Safeway and Duckhorn Wine Company. Commutes are fairly short, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Napa County, jobs slipped a little last year and unemployment is only a touch lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Elmshaven, a museum, and Bale Grist Mill State Historic Park are both in or beside town. A short drive away, Bothe–Napa Valley State Park is a protected area for walking and time outdoors, and Sonoma Botanical Garden offers a quieter afternoon among plants.
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- 2,341households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Napa County had 79,072 jobs in 2025, 1.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saint Helena weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saint Helena
- Saint Helena UnifiedSchool district171FTE
- HyattApcal139
- Wight Vineyard ManagementGrape farming without making wine100
- Treasury Wine Estates AmericasWine shops, packaged85
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores67
- Duckhorn Wine CompanyWineries62
- Central Valley Builders Supply Saint Helena FacilityHome centers, building materials46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 499 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saint Helena’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 Napa County and the Napa, CA metro.
Saint Helena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saint Helena$1,630,683
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Saint Helena listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Saint Helena19.77%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saint Helena81
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saint Helena12
Zip codes with a Saint Helena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saint Helena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.