Weed, California.
Typical home $307,855 (-0.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$803 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,185 -0%
- $309,040$307,855 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,955 +7%
- $287,900$307,855 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.
- Weed$1,616
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 52 years.
Typical home values in Weed, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Weed, Siskiyou County, California
Weed is a city of 2,862 people in Siskiyou County. Half its households earn more than $38,854 a year and half less, against $59,095 across Siskiyou County; 34% of its people live below the poverty line. 49% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 51% are rented. Unemployment in Siskiyou County was 7.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Weed is a small city in Siskiyou County, with a younger population than many small towns and incomes well below the county's. A larger share of households live below the poverty line than is typical, and more homes are rented than lived in by their owners, so renting is common. Winters are cold, with highs only a little above freezing in December and lows below it, while July is warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants and hotels, in manufacturing and in government. Among the largest workplaces in Weed are College of the Siskiyous, CG Roxane LLC Shasta, which purifies and bottles spring water, and Dakavia Management, which runs skilled nursing facilities. Unemployment across Siskiyou County has crept up a little over the past year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did a year earlier. Few adults hold a four-year degree, most people commute a short way to work, and very few work from home.
Things to do. Close to town, Lake Siskiyou is a reservoir a short drive away, and Mount Shasta City Park, a garden, is also a short drive. Mount Shasta Wilderness, a protected area on the mountain, is a short drive as well. For a longer outing, Castle Lake is a mountain lake a longer drive away.
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- 1,155households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 34%below the poverty line
- 17 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Siskiyou County had 13,862 jobs in 2025, 2.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 42° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 52°. About 38 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Shasta weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Weed
- College of the SiskiyousTwo-year college208
- CG Roxane LLC ShastaSpring waters, purifying and bottling117
- Dakavia ManagementSkilled nursing facilities67
- Weed Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district40FTE
- DeClerck EnterprisesFast-food restaurants20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 204 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Weed’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 Siskiyou County.
Weed home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Weed$307,855
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Weed listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Weed19.62%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Weed67
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Weed12
Zip codes with a Weed address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Weed — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.