Lassen County, California: commercial real estate data.

Lassen County

How many people live in Lassen County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202430,356
• Households9,247
• Average household size3.28
• Median household income$67,403
• Median age38.3
• Median gross rent$1,000 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$265,300
• Home value to household income3.9 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income17.8 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.1 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree3.0 percent
• Adults 25 and over22,345
• Population under 185,611
• Share under 1818.5 percent
• Population 65 and over5,012
• Share 65 and over16.5 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 6419,733
• Civilian labor force10,481
• Unemployment rate8.3 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over42.4 percent
• Rank by population among California counties47th of 58
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1472nd of 3,222

Lassen County is the 47th largest of 58 California counties by population. A median home costs 3.9 times median household income, which is moderately unaffordable by national standards. Residents under 18 outnumber those 65 and over, at 18.5 percent against 16.5 percent, a household formation profile rather than a retirement one.

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year.

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Where are people moving to Lassen County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving706
• People arriving, from those returns1,200
• Tax returns filed by households leaving1,034
• Net household movement-328
• Adjusted gross income arriving$34.8 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-16.1 m
• Average income of an arriving household$49,268
• Average income of a leaving household$49,167
• Largest single originWashoe County (58 households)
• Largest single destinationWashoe County (79 households)

Households arriving report $101 more average income than households leaving, so the migration is raising local spending power rather than just moving it around. The largest single source of arrivals is Washoe County, which is the catchment a retail or multifamily study should look at first.

US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.

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Employment by industry in Lassen County

• Covered employment, annual average9,174
• Establishments reporting784
• Average annual pay$59,583
• Average weekly wage$1,146
• Retail trade, employment844
• Retail trade, average annual pay$38,329
• Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, employment390
• Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, average annual pay$57,915
• Wholesale trade, employment281
• Wholesale trade, average annual pay$91,973
• Other services, except public administration, employment148
• Other services, except public administration, average annual pay$39,495
• Finance and insurance, employment66
• Information, employment48

Retail trade is the largest private sector at 844 jobs, 9.2 percent of covered employment.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages.

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Building permits in Lassen County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 20246
• Declared construction value permitted$1.9 m
• Single family units authorized6
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$309,463
• Units authorized per 1,000 households0.6

Single-family homes are 100.0 percent of units authorized, so the pipeline is predominantly single-family.

US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual.

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SBA loan default and charge-off rates in Lassen County

Do SBA loans in Lassen County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded2
• Paid in full2
• Charged off0
• Status: Paid in full2
• Status: Exempt from disclosure11
• Status: Cancelled2

Only 2 loans have reached a final outcome, fewer than the 30 a charge-off rate needs, so no rate is published.

Compare against the national and state SBA charge-off rates, computed the same way over resolved loans only.

US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.

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How large is Lassen County?

• Land area4,541 sq mi
• Rank by land area among California counties8th of 58
• Width, east to west70.5 mi
• Height, north to south101.9 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary5
• Residents per square mile of land7
• Establishments per square mile0.09

US Census Bureau county boundary geometry, TIGER, adjacency computed from shared boundary vertices, TIGER county boundaries. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, 2020-2024 5-year. US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023.

Feasibility studies

When a Lassen County site needs a document a lender will accept.

The same data layer behind this page is the one the studies are written from. A study for a Lassen County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202430,356
• Households9,247
• Average household size3.28
• Median household income$67,403
• Median age38.3

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Cities and places in Lassen.

16 Census places lie wholly or partly in Lassen County. 14 carry enough published place level data for a page of their own and are linked. The rest are named here and not linked, because the American Community Survey and the SBA record between them do not carry enough about them to write an honest page. A place existing is itself worth knowing, so nothing in the county is left out.

A further 1 of the county's 15 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Lassen County, the largest being Standish (1). Those are postal cities, unincorporated areas and cities outside the county, so no place row claims them; they are counted in the county total above.