Whitmore, California.
Typical home $375,433 (-0.3% in a year). Redding, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$796 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $970 -0%
- $376,402$375,433 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $30,369 -7%
- $405,801$375,433 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.
- Whitmore$1,971
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Whitmore, CA fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Whitmore, Shasta County, California
Whitmore, in Shasta County, had 311 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Shasta County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 2.2% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Shasta County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Whitmore is a very small community in Shasta County, home to far fewer people than most towns, with residents who are older than in most of the country. Winters are cold, with December the coldest month and highs staying well above freezing but lows dipping below it, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in professional and business services. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in much of the country, and the typical trip to work is a long one. Across Shasta County, the largest workplaces include Mercy Medical Center Redding and Shasta College.
Things to do. Lassen Volcanic National Park is a national park a longer drive away, and Manzanita Lake, a lake, lies in the same direction. Shasta Lake, a large reservoir, is also a longer drive away, and Lake Shasta Caverns, a tourist attraction, can be visited on the same trip.
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- 19%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
What people in Shasta County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Shasta County had 71,664 jobs in 2025, 2.2% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 40° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 46°. About 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Manzanita Lake weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Shasta County
- Mercy Medical Center ReddingGeneral hospital1,508FTE
- Shasta CollegeUniversity or college662
- Shasta Community Health CenterCommunity health centers and clinics, outpatient536
- CAL FireCal fire503
- Shasta Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital492FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters465
- Shasta Union High SchoolsSchool district448FTE
- Redding Elementary SchoolsSchool district411FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 132 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,977 people in all across the county; Whitmore has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), colleges 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
- WildfireVery high
- Volcanic activityRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of WhitmoreRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Whitmore’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Shasta County and the Redding, CA metro.
Whitmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Whitmore$375,433
- 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.
- Whitmore7
Zip codes with a Whitmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Whitmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.