West Point, California.
Typical home $269,902 (-1.0% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$604 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,773 -1%
- $272,675$269,902 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,804 -5%
- $283,706$269,902 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.
- West Point$1,417
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in West Point, CA fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in West Point, Calaveras County, California
West Point, in Calaveras County, had 688 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. West Point is a small community in Calaveras County, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are hot, with July the warmest. Over a year it gets a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across Calaveras County, some of the largest workplaces are Calaveras Unified, Mark Twain Medical Center and CAL Fire. The typical commute is a long one, and unemployment across the county is a little higher than in some places.
Things to do. Mount Zion State Forest, a protected area, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a protected area, and to California Caverns, a tourist attraction. Lake Alpine, a reservoir, is also a longer drive away.
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- 47 mintypical commute
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 55° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 63°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sutter Hill Cdf weather station, 14 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; West Point 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in West Point’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 Calaveras County.
West Point home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- West Point$269,902
- 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 3 West Point 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.
- West Point29.78%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- West Point22
Zip codes with a West Point address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls West Point — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.