92021
El Cajon, California.
El Cajon, San Diego County, CA · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro · population 70,501
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,121 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,202 -0%
- $774,990$771,788 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,537 +17%
- $660,251$771,788 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.
- 92021$4,051
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in zip 92021 fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 92021 rose 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 92021 runs $3,121/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,449 in May 2024.
That is $5,312 a month against $2,191 rent: a $4,051 mortgage payment, plus $434 property tax and $826 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 92021
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,312
- Renting$2,191
- Mortgage only$4,051
Property tax · $434/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Diego County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $826/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: El Cajon, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 92021
Against the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro and the national benchmark.
- 92021$2,191
- San Diego$2,967
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 92021
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 92021$771,788
- San Diego$926,961
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
Showing 30 of 49 zips in range — sorting picks from all 49.
| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | 92019 | El Cajon | 45,351 | $2,748 | $874,196 |
| 5.0 | 92040 | Lakeside | 46,216 | $2,384 | $811,479 |
| 6.2 | 92020 | El Cajon | 57,842 | $2,124 | $824,128 |
| 7.1 | 92071 | Santee | 59,590 | $2,853 | $799,773 |
| 8.6 | 91941 | La Mesa | 33,218 | $2,545 | $1,021,021 |
| 9.1 | 91901 | Alpine | 18,197 | $2,274 | $960,252 |
| 9.3 | 92119 | San Diego | 24,456 | $2,456 | $967,965 |
| 9.3 | 91978 | Spring Valley | 10,014 | $2,643 | $829,209 |
| 9.4 | 91942 | La Mesa | 41,424 | $2,640 | $806,501 |
| 10.4 | 91977 | Spring Valley | 61,064 | $2,425 | $762,925 |
| 10.5 | 91935 | Jamul | 9,114 | $3,800 | $1,013,687 |
| 11.4 | 92131 | San Diego | 35,503 | $3,589 | $1,452,308 |
| 11.6 | 91945 | Lemon Grove | 27,745 | $2,671 | $757,486 |
| 11.9 | 92120 | San Diego | 31,915 | $2,700 | $1,021,265 |
| 12.2 | 92124 | San Diego | 30,474 | $2,986 | $1,042,605 |
| 12.5 | 92115 | San Diego | 66,264 | $3,293 | $844,313 |
| 12.6 | 91914 | Chula Vista | 16,877 | $4,070 | $1,161,918 |
| 13.0 | 92064 | Poway | 48,683 | $3,325 | $1,209,487 |
| 13.4 | 91902 | Bonita | 17,698 | $3,321 | $1,143,759 |
| 13.7 | 92114 | San Diego | 65,745 | $2,857 | $737,487 |
| 14.3 | 92105 | San Diego | 71,411 | $2,248 | $683,243 |
| 14.7 | 92139 | San Diego | 34,703 | $3,483 | $732,235 |
| 14.8 | 92065 | Ramona | 36,752 | $2,515 | $806,608 |
| 15.0 | 91916 | Descanso | 1,710 | — | $663,197 |
| 15.2 | 92123 | San Diego | 33,041 | $3,197 | $944,353 |
| 15.2 | 92116 | San Diego | 31,843 | $2,444 | $984,779 |
| 15.3 | 91915 | Chula Vista | 35,322 | $3,258 | $847,552 |
| 16.0 | 92108 | San Diego | 26,790 | $3,168 | $581,197 |
| 16.0 | 92128 | San Diego | 48,992 | $3,060 | $985,813 |
| 16.1 | 92104 | San Diego | 47,410 | $2,505 | $939,312 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.