Whitethorn, California.
Typical home $355,969 (-5.4% in a year). Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$400 (+27%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $20,132 -5%
- $376,102$355,969 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $89,679 -20%
- $445,649$355,969 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.
- Whitethorn$1,868
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Whitethorn, CA fell 5.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitethorn, Humboldt County, California
The Census does not count Whitethorn on its own, so the figures here are Humboldt County's. Half the county's households earn more than $61,160 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 56% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Humboldt County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Humboldt County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitethorn is a small town in Humboldt County, in the far northwest of California, where the land runs from the Pacific shore up into forested hills. Across the county, the typical resident is in the late middle years of life, and a notable share of residents live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are the coldest part of the year while September is the warmest.
Work. Across Humboldt County, many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown slightly. Commutes are short, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Humboldt Redwoods State Park, a protected area of towering redwood trees, is a longer drive away and one of the best known spots nearby. King Range, another protected area, is a short drive away. Sue-meg State Park, also a protected area, is a short drive away as well.
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- 54,922households
- 39.9median age
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What people in Humboldt County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Humboldt County had 52,251 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 47°; warmest in September, with highs near 70° and lows near 54°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Shelter Cove Aviation weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Humboldt County
- California State Polytechnic University-HumboldtUniversity or college1,189
- St. Joseph Hospital - EurekaGeneral hospital818FTE
- College of the RedwoodsTwo-year college472
- Eureka City SchoolsSchool district461FTE
- CAL FireCal fire420
- MAD River Community HospitalGeneral hospital415FTE
- Humboldt Sawmill CoBoards, wood, made from logs or bolts313
- Danco BuildersMultifamily building construction general contractors301
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 93 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 10,058 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- TsunamisRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Humboldt County, 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 Humboldt County and the Eureka-Arcata, CA metro.
Whitethorn home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitethorn$355,969
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Whitethorn 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.
- Whitethorn27.01%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Whitethorn27
Zip codes with a Whitethorn address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitethorn — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.