JanesvilleCA
The town, settled in 1861, counts 2,399 residents.
Is Janesville a good place to live?
The best of Janesville’s subject grades is a B+ for the outdoors; the weakest is a D− for hazard risk. Only 49 of California’s 1,063 towns score lower on walkability. 26% of the land in Janesville is conserved, where California’s towns sit at 4.3% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. The biggest park or preserve is Bass Hill Wildlife Area, at 1,745 acres. Janesville has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Janesville has grown 75% from 2010 to 2020
1,408 counted in 2010 and 2,461 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Janesville grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Janesville is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Janesville: who provides what
Janesville is unincorporated, so Lassen County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Janesville.
Janesville’s typical home value is about $314K
The share of households in Janesville who live in a home they own: 78%. The town’s going rate for rent is $1,374 a month.
| Janesville | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 78% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,374 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Public schools in Janesville fall behind 67% of California districts
Its one school is below. 313 students attend Janesville’s public school.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Janesville ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 313 | C+ |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Janesville has a very high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from wildfire
Expected damage from storms and floods is higher here than in 97% of U.S. communities. Households in Janesville have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2021. Of the losses FEMA expects locally, 60% come from wildfires and 23% from inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
nearly a quarter of the land in Janesville is protected from building
Janesville’s trail network density stands at 0.2 miles per square mile. Walkers can cover 7.8 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. Parks and preserves locally: 2, covering 3,224 acres.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bald Mountain Recreation Area | 7.7 mi | 1,479 |
| 2. Bass Hill Wildlife Area | — | 1,745 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most of Janesville’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.6 jobs for each of them
Between 2013 and 2023, jobs in Janesville rose by 55, to 108. Janesville: 7.5% of residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Susanville (9%), Sacramento (5%) and Red Bluff (3%). For half of commuters, work is under 153 miles away.
| Janesville | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 7.5% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $78,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Janesville brings four seasons and hot summers
In Janesville, the midsummer high is 91°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Janesville are less healthy than 51% of U.S. towns
22% of adults get no exercise outside work in Janesville. CDC measures, 32 in all: Janesville beats California on 5 and trails on 10. Two figures for adults locally: 25% have been diagnosed with depression, 73% had a checkup this year.
| Janesville | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 73% | 72% | 79% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Janesville | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.4% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 13% | 17.9% |
| More adults with COPD | 7.8% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Janesville
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Janesville
About 4 of every 100 Janesville residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
100% of working residents leave Janesville for work
Where Janesville’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Janesville
Census-designated place in California, United States
Janesville (also known as Lassen) is a sparsely populated census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States. It is located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Susanville, at an elevation of 4239 feet (1292 m). Janesville is located on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. Its population is 2,461 as of the 2020 census, up from 1,408 from the 2010 census. The community consists of an elementary school, a park, four churches, two gas stations, a pizza parlor, a coffee shop, a veterinary hospital, a hardware store, a post office, a Dollar General and a few other businesses. Janesville stretches over a distance of 8 miles (13 km). Its ZIP Code is 96114. The communit…
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- Area
- 13 sq mi
- Elevation
- 4,239 ft
- ZIP code
- 96114
- Area code
- 530
Questions about Janesville
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Janesville, CA expensive?
That is 4.7 years of the area's median household income ($67,403 across the Susanville, CA area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.