Sierraville, California.
Typical home $424,899 (-5.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,035 (+87%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $24,700 -5%
- $449,599$424,899 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $25,345 -6%
- $450,244$424,899 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.
- Sierraville$2,230
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Sierraville, CA fell 5.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sierraville, Sierra County, California
Sierraville, in Sierra County, had 239 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sierra County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sierraville is a very small community in Sierra County, in the mountains of eastern California, where neighbors are few and everyone is likely to know one another. Very few residents live below the poverty line, and homes are valued well above what many small mountain communities see. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month, and summers are warm in July without turning hot.
Work. Across Sierra County, the largest workplaces are the Sierra-Plumas Joint Unified school district and the Forest Service, which reflects a local economy built around public schools and the surrounding forest land. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Independence Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away and is the nearest water to visit. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Tahoe National Forest, a large protected area for hiking and time outdoors, and to Donner Memorial State Park, another protected area near Donner Lake. In winter, ski areas such as Palisades Tahoe are also a longer drive away.
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- 0%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 39° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 80° and lows near 37°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sagehen Creek weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sierra County
- Sierra-Plumas Joint UnifiedSchool district63FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture32
School districts come 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
- LightningVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Sierraville’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 Sierra County.
Sierraville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sierraville$424,899
- 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.
Zip codes with a Sierraville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sierraville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.