Walnut Grove, California.
Typical home $545,755 (+2.5% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,256 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,311 +3%
- $532,444$545,755 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $10,988 +2%
- $534,767$545,755 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.
- Walnut Grove$2,865
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Walnut Grove, CA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Walnut Grove, Sacramento County, California
Walnut Grove, in Sacramento County, had 1,452 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sacramento County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sacramento County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Walnut Grove is a small community on the Sacramento River, in the delta country of southern Sacramento County. It is a quiet place, with homes that cost well above what is typical across the country and household incomes in Sacramento County that run higher than in much of the state. Winters are cool and mild, summers get hot, and snow is rare. Rain is modest and falls mostly in the cooler months.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in government, and in shops. Across Sacramento County, some of the largest workplaces are UC Davis Medical Center, Elk Grove Unified and the State of California. Joblessness in the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up.
Things to do. The Cosumnes River is a short drive away, as are the Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge and the Cosumnes River Preserve, both protected areas where people go to see the wetlands and the birds. A longer drive brings you to the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and to Sutter's Fort, a historic fort.
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What people in Sacramento County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sacramento County had 733,061 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 57° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 59°. About 18 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lodi weather station, 17 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sacramento County
- UC Davis Medical CenterGeneral hospital8,974FTE
- State of CaliforniaGeneral services departments, government8,700
- Elk Grove UnifiedSchool district5,850FTE
- CDCR HeadquartersCorrectional institutions4,359
- San Juan UnifiedSchool district3,816FTE
- Sacramento City UnifiedSchool district3,680FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,466
- Sutter Medical Center - SacramentoGeneral hospital3,337FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,062 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 206,050 people in all across the county; Walnut Grove has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Walnut Grove’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 Sacramento County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Walnut Grove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Walnut Grove$545,755
- 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.
- Walnut Grove14
Zip codes with a Walnut Grove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Walnut Grove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.