Salyer, California.
Typical home $250,784 (-8.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$190 (+17%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $23,824 -9%
- $274,607$250,784 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $119,149 -32%
- $369,932$250,784 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.
- Salyer$1,316
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Salyer, CA fell 8.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Salyer, Trinity County, California
Salyer, in Trinity County, had 389 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Trinity County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Trinity County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Salyer is a very small community along the Trinity River in Trinity County, California, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another. Homes here cost less than in much of California, and hardly anyone in town lives below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the trip to work is a moderate one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with restaurants, hotels and entertainment, farming, forestry and mining, and shops also employing many. Across Trinity County, some of the largest workplaces are Trinity Hospital, Trinity River Lumber Company and the California Department of Transportation facilities. Unemployment has held steady over the past year, and the county has lost a few jobs.
Things to do. New River and Horse Linto Creek are both rivers a short drive away, good for time by the water. A longer drive brings you to the Trinity River itself and to Azalea State Natural Reserve, a protected area. Winters are cool with little snow, summers get hot, and a fair amount of rain and melted snow falls over the year.
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- 13%of adults have a degree
- 0%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
What people in Trinity County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trinity County had 2,894 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 53°. About 3 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Bar East weather station, 21 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinity County
- Trinity HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Trinity River Lumber CompanyDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts150
- Trinity Alps UnifiedSchool district96FTE
- North State Grocery Group445110 supermarkets and other grocery retailers71
- Camp BasinChildren's camps60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture55
- Mountain Valley UnifiedSchool district52FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 312 people in all across the county; Salyer has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Salyer’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Trinity County.
Salyer home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Salyer$250,784
- 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.
- Salyer5
Zip codes with a Salyer address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Salyer — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.