Plumas County, California: commercial real estate data.

Plumas County

How many people live in Plumas County

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202419,423
• Households8,054
• Average household size2.41
• Median household income$66,031
• Median age52.0
• Median gross rent$1,194 per month
• Median owner-occupied home value$360,200
• Home value to household income5.5 times
• Annual rent as a share of median income21.7 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher22.6 percent
• Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree8.2 percent
• Adults 25 and over15,180
• Population under 183,336
• Share under 1817.2 percent
• Population 65 and over6,114
• Share 65 and over31.5 percent
• Working age population, 18 to 649,973
• Civilian labor force7,681
• Unemployment rate9.2 percent
• Labor force participation, adults 18 and over47.7 percent
• Rank by population among California counties51st of 58
• Rank by population among US county-equivalents, Puerto Rico included1914th of 3,222

Plumas County is the 51st largest of 58 California counties by population. A median home costs 5.5 times median household income, which is severely unaffordable by national standards. Residents 65 and over outnumber those under 18, at 31.5 percent against 17.2 percent, which points demand at health care, services and single story product rather than schools.

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

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Where are people moving to Plumas County from?

• Tax returns filed by households arriving523
• People arriving, from those returns886
• Tax returns filed by households leaving725
• Net household movement-202
• Adjusted gross income arriving$44.1 m
• Net adjusted gross income movement$-13.2 m
• Average income of an arriving household$84,373
• Average income of a leaving household$79,081
• Largest single originWashoe County (74 households)
• Largest single destinationWashoe County (79 households)

Households arriving report $5,292 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 Plumas County

• Covered employment, annual average6,678
• Establishments reporting1,004
• Average annual pay$59,864
• Average weekly wage$1,151
• Accommodation and food services, employment637
• Accommodation and food services, average annual pay$28,018
• Retail trade, employment610
• Retail trade, average annual pay$37,108
• Health care and social assistance, employment553
• Health care and social assistance, average annual pay$38,380
• Manufacturing, employment473
• Manufacturing, average annual pay$71,030
• Construction, employment435
• Other services, except public administration, employment291

Accommodation and food services is the largest private sector at 637 jobs, 9.5 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 Plumas County

• Housing units authorized by permit, 202439
• Declared construction value permitted$7.0 m
• Single family units authorized39
• Multifamily units authorized0
• Multifamily share of units0.0 percent
• Average declared value per unit$180,685
• Units authorized per 1,000 households4.8

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 Plumas County

Do SBA loans in Plumas County get paid back?

• Loans with a final outcome recorded6
• Paid in full6
• Charged off0
• Status: Paid in full6
• Status: Cancelled5
• Status: Exempt from disclosure21

Only 6 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 Plumas County?

• Land area2,553 sq mi
• Rank by land area among California counties22nd of 58
• Width, east to west73.6 mi
• Height, north to south58.6 mi
• Geographies sharing a boundary6
• Residents per square mile of land8
• Establishments per square mile0.24

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 Plumas 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 Plumas County site starts with the figures you are reading, carrying the same source and period into the credit file.

• Population, American Community Survey 2020-202419,423
• Households8,054
• Average household size2.41
• Median household income$66,031
• Median age52.0

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Cities and places in Plumas.

46 Census places lie wholly or partly in Plumas County. 41 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 3 of the county's 32 SBA 7(a) approvals are to borrowers in cities that match no Census place in Plumas County, the largest being Westwood (2), Blairsden Graeagle (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.