Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Myrtletown, CA

Myrtletown is an unincorporated census-designated place in Humboldt County, just outside Eureka, and part of the Eureka metropolitan area.

The Census Bureau originally counted this community under a different name: it first appeared in the 1950 census as the unincorporated community of Ryans Slough, and its name was changed to Myrtletown in the 1980 census.

Myrtletown had a population of 4,882 at the 2020 census, up from 4,675 in 2010, spread across about 2.2 square miles at an elevation of 112 feet.

Myrtletown has 2,006 households according to the 2020 census, averaging 2.32 people each, with a near-even split between owners (51.6%) and renters (48.4%).

Myrtletown is known across Humboldt County for its high concentration of homes built in the 1950s and 1960s by the local Pierson Building Company, whose distinctive style features low-pitched roofs, floor-to-ceiling picture windows, and open central floor plans.

Before the postwar building boom, the Myrtletown area was open grassland, and a handful of houses from the 1930s and 1940s still stand among the newer subdivisions.

Myrtletown shares Eureka's cool, foggy North Coast weather, with a mild cool-summer Mediterranean climate where average highs stay in the 50s and 60s Fahrenheit all year.

The Census Bureau estimated Myrtletown's median household income at $55,543 in 2023, and about 40% of adults in the community hold a bachelor's degree.