Wilton, California.
Typical home $944,973 (+4.2% in a year). Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,456 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $38,357 +4%
- $906,616$944,973 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $84,399 +10%
- $860,574$944,973 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.
- Wilton$4,960
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Wilton, CA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wilton, Sacramento County, California
Wilton, in Sacramento County, had 5,958 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $189,537 a year and half less, against $92,175 across Sacramento County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in Sacramento County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sacramento County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wilton is a small community in Sacramento County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Typical home values are high, and a four-year degree is held by a good share of adults.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, government and retail. Commutes are fairly long, and a fair number of people work from home. Across Sacramento County, some of the largest workplaces include UC Davis Medical Center, Elk Grove Unified and the State of California.
Things to do. The American River is the best known of the nearby places, and the Cosumnes River is another river option; both are a longer drive away. Crocker Art Museum and Sacramento Zoo are also a longer drive away. Winters are cool with little or no snow and some rain, and summers get hot, so outings suit most of the year.
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- 1,838households
- 38%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What people in Sacramento County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sacramento County had 733,061 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 41°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 61°. About 19 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Sacramento Ese weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sacramento County
- UC Davis Medical CenterGeneral hospital8,974FTE
- State of CaliforniaGeneral services departments, government8,700
- Elk Grove UnifiedSchool district5,850FTE
- CDCR HeadquartersCorrectional institutions4,359
- San Juan UnifiedSchool district3,816FTE
- Sacramento City UnifiedSchool district3,680FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,466
- Sutter Medical Center - SacramentoGeneral hospital3,337FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,062 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 206,050 people in all across the county; Wilton has two of its own. Hospitals come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wilton’s 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 Sacramento County and the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro.
Wilton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wilton$944,973
- 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.
- Wilton9
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wilton5
Zip codes with a Wilton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wilton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.