Willows, California.
Typical home $317,848 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,061 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$827 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,585 +4%
- $306,264$317,848 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,076 +16%
- $274,772$317,848 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.
- Willows$1,668
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Willows, CA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Willows, Glenn County, California
Willows is a city of 6,293 people in Glenn County. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Glenn County was 7.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Willows is a small city in the Sacramento Valley and the seat of Glenn County. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent, and typical rents sit well below what many Californians pay. Incomes in the county run below the state's typical level, and fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than in most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming and government close behind. Among the larger workplaces in Willows are Glenn Medical Center, Willows Unified and Northern Valley Indian Health. Commutes are moderate, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Thunderhill Raceway Park, a race track, is a short drive away, and so is the Willow Creek-Lurline Wildlife Management Area, a protected area for wildlife. Farther out, Black Butte Lake is a reservoir, and the Museum of Northern California Art is a longer drive. Winters are cool and fairly mild, summers turn hot, and the year brings only modest rain.
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- 2,214households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Glenn County had 9,713 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 63°. About 22 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Willows West weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Willows
- Northern Valley Indian HealthMedical doctors', mental health, offices471
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters232
- Willows UnifiedSchool district165FTE
- Glenn County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district154FTE
- Glenn Medical CenterCritical access hospital98FTE
- Willows Post AcuteHomes for the elderly with nursing care77
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture54
- Walden Academy DistrictSchool district32FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 780 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Willows’ 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 Glenn County.
Willows home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Willows$317,848
- 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 Willows 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Willows18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Willows7
Zip codes with a Willows address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Willows — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.