Williams, California.
Typical home $377,575 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,023 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,491 +1%
- $375,084$377,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $46,019 +14%
- $331,556$377,575 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.
- Williams$1,982
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Williams, CA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Williams, Colusa County, California
Williams is a city of 5,538 people in Colusa County. Half its households earn more than $90,761 a year and half less, against $75,672 across Colusa County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Colusa County was 9.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Williams is a small city in Colusa County, in the Sacramento Valley. Its residents are young, with a median age well below that of much of the country, and household incomes run higher than across the county as a whole. Slightly more homes are lived in by their owners than by renters, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and wet, with little or no snow, while summers are hot.
Work. Many residents work in farming, schools, hospitals and social care, transport and warehousing, or manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Williams are Williams Unified, the school district, Bar ALE, a feed and livestock manufacturer, and Granzella's Inn. Unemployment across Colusa County is high and about where it stood a year ago, though the county has added a few more jobs. Commutes are of moderate length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. The Sacramento Valley Museum is in or beside town, and the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away. Farther out, a longer drive reaches Thunderhill Raceway Park, a race track, and the Yuba River.
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- 1,576households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Colusa County had 9,472 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 60°. About 17 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Colusa Ssw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Williams
- Williams UnifiedSchool district135FTE
- Bar ALEComplete feed, livestock, manufacturing67
- American Medical Response21
- Granzella's InnHotels20
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 108 people in all. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesRelatively 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 Williams’ 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 Colusa County.
Williams home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Williams$377,575
- 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.
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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Williams address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Williams — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.