Standish, California.
Typical home $292,499 (-1.7% in a year). Susanville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$666 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,077 -2%
- $297,576$292,499 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $2,659 -1%
- $295,158$292,499 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.
- Standish$1,535
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Standish, CA fell 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Standish, Lassen County, California
The Census does not count Standish on its own, so the figures here are Lassen County's. Half the county's households earn more than $67,403 a year and half less; 14% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 68% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in Lassen County was 6.6% in August 2026, and the county had 2.5% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Lassen County work in government, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Standish is a town in Lassen County in northeastern California, where winters are cold and summers are warm, with a moderate amount of rain and melted snow over the year. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and the typical resident is of middle age. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and a noticeable share of people live below the poverty line.
Work. Many residents work in government, in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and shops. Across the county, jobs have become somewhat fewer over the past year, while unemployment has edged down. Few people work from home.
Things to do. Willow Creek runs in or beside the town, so the river is close at hand. Honey Lake is a short drive away, and Plumas National Forest, a protected area, is a longer drive off.
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- 9,247households
- 38.3median age
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Lassen County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Lassen County had 8,945 jobs in 2025, 2.5% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 43° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 53°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Susanville 2SW weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lassen County
- CDCR, High Desert State PrisonCorrectional institutions1,305
- CAL FireCal fire389
- Lassen Community CollegeTwo-year college207
- WalmartDiscount department stores162
- Banner Lassen Medical CenterCritical access hospital152FTE
- Sierra Cascade NurseryStrawberry farming149
- Bureau of Prisons/federal Prison SystemFederal government · Department of Justice125
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture125
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,771 people in all. Colleges come 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Lassen County, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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 Lassen County and the Susanville, CA metro.
Standish home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Standish$292,499
- 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.
Zip codes with a Standish address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Standish — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.