Zip lookup · CA

92131
San Diego, California.

San Diego, San Diego County, CA · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro · population 35,503

What it costs per month · 92131 $7,623/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,687 (+160%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $29,135 +2%
$1,423,173$1,452,308 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $374,329 +35%
$1,077,979$1,452,308 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.

$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 92131 $7,623 United States $1,922
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 $8,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 92131$7,623
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.

Typical home values in zip 92131 rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 92131 rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 92131 runs $6,406/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $6,730 in Jan 2025.

That is $9,995 a month against $3,589 rent: a $7,623 mortgage payment, plus $818 property tax and $1,555 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 92131

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.

$2,500 $5,000 $7,500 $10,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $9,995 Renting $3,589 Mortgage only $7,623
$2,500 $5,000 $7,500 $10,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$9,995
  • Renting$3,589
  • Mortgage only$7,623

Property tax · $818/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 · $1,555/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: San Diego, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $3,589 as of Sep 2026
+2.2%year on year
Typical home value $1,452,308 as of Sep 2026
+2.0%year on year

Asking rent — 92131

Against the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 92131 $3,589 San Diego $2,967 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 2018 2022 2026
  • 92131$3,589
  • San Diego$2,967
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 92131

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 92131 $1,452,308 San Diego $926,961 United States $366,157
$500,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 92131$1,452,308
  • San Diego$926,961
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 60 zips in range — sorting picks from all 60.

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4.8 92071 Santee 59,590 $2,853 $799,773
5.0 92124 San Diego 30,474 $2,986 $1,042,605
5.1 92126 San Diego 76,059 $3,044 $979,735
6.1 92129 San Diego 52,965 $3,567 $1,322,444
6.2 92119 San Diego 24,456 $2,456 $967,965
6.3 92064 Poway 48,683 $3,325 $1,209,487
7.0 92120 San Diego 31,915 $2,700 $1,021,265
7.0 92128 San Diego 48,992 $3,060 $985,813
7.5 92123 San Diego 33,041 $3,197 $944,353
8.4 92121 San Diego 3,974 $3,835 $1,050,574
8.5 91942 La Mesa 41,424 $2,640 $806,501
8.6 92020 El Cajon 57,842 $2,124 $824,128
9.0 92111 San Diego 45,249 $3,059 $934,294
9.3 92122 San Diego 45,411 $3,285 $1,055,706
9.3 92130 San Diego 60,768 $4,198 $2,068,083
9.3 92127 San Diego 50,555 $3,762 $1,592,977
9.3 92115 San Diego 66,264 $3,293 $844,313
9.6 92117 San Diego 52,275 $2,716 $1,074,166
9.7 92108 San Diego 26,790 $3,168 $581,197
9.8 92040 Lakeside 46,216 $2,384 $811,479
9.8 92116 San Diego 31,843 $2,444 $984,779
10.1 91941 La Mesa 33,218 $2,545 $1,021,021
11.1 92105 San Diego 71,411 $2,248 $683,243
11.3 91945 Lemon Grove 27,745 $2,671 $757,486
11.4 92104 San Diego 47,410 $2,505 $939,312
11.4 92021 El Cajon 70,501 $2,191 $771,788
11.6 92037 La Jolla 40,717 $3,925 $2,349,327
11.6 92067 Rancho Santa Fe 7,938 $10,132 $4,791,113
12.1 92103 San Diego 34,836 $2,764 $1,063,156
12.2 92014 Del Mar 13,105 $6,055 $2,879,441

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.