Vallecito, California.
Typical home $371,041 (-2.9% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$625 (+47%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $10,948 -3%
- $381,989$371,041 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $30,005 -7%
- $401,046$371,041 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.
- Vallecito$1,948
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vallecito, CA fell 2.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Vallecito, Calaveras County, California
Vallecito, in Calaveras County, had 442 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Calaveras County was 6.3% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Calaveras County work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Vallecito is a very small community in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Calaveras County, with a population too small to fill much more than a handful of streets. Homes here are priced well below what many Californians pay, though the town sits in a county where household incomes are above what Vallecito's own housing costs might suggest. Winters are cool, with little or no snow, and summers turn hot, with the year's rain and melted snow falling mostly in the cooler months.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Across Calaveras County, the largest workplaces include CAL Fire, Calaveras Unified and Mark Twain Medical Center. Jobs across the county have slipped slightly from the year before, and unemployment is a little higher than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Moaning Cavern, a tourist attraction, is in or beside town, and California Caverns and Mercer Caverns are both a short drive away. A short drive also brings you to Columbia State Historic Park, and to New Melones Lake, a reservoir. For a longer outing, Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a longer drive away.
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What people in Calaveras County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Calaveras County had 10,140 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 65°. About 30 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the New Melones Dam Headquarters weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Calaveras County
- CAL FireCal fire664
- ACRT PacificForestry services333
- Calaveras UnifiedSchool district257FTE
- Mark Twain Medical CenterCritical access hospital219FTE
- Pride On PointDriving services214
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services113
- Calaveras County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district95FTE
- Bret Harte Union High SchoolsSchool district91FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 15 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,121 people in all across the county; Vallecito has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vallecito’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 Calaveras County.
Vallecito home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vallecito$371,041
- 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 Vallecito address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vallecito — 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.