Zip lookup · CA

93635
Los Banos, California.

Los Banos, Merced County, CA · Merced, CA metro · population 50,149

What it costs per month · 93635 $2,396/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,139 (+91%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $6,089 -1%
$462,630$456,541 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $25,151 +6%
$431,390$456,541 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.

$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 93635 $2,396 United States $1,922
$500 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 93635$2,396
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 61 years.

Typical home values in zip 93635 fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 93635 rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 93635 runs $787/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,250 in Oct 2022.

That is $3,141 a month against $2,354 rent: a $2,396 mortgage payment, plus $256 property tax and $489 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 93635

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.

$2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $3,141 Renting $2,354 Mortgage only $2,396
$2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$3,141
  • Renting$2,354
  • Mortgage only$2,396

Property tax · $256/mo 0.67% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Merced County, CA

Insurance & upkeep · $489/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: Los Banos, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,354 as of Sep 2026
+2.0%year on year
Typical home value $456,541 as of Sep 2026
-1.3%year on year

Asking rent — 93635

Against the Merced, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,800 $2,000 $2,200 $2,400 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 93635 $2,354 Merced $2,059 United States $1,932
$1,800 $2,000 $2,200 $2,400 2022 2024 2026
  • 93635$2,354
  • Merced$2,059
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 93635

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 93635 $456,541 Merced $413,645 United States $366,157
$300,000 $400,000 $500,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 93635$456,541
  • Merced$413,645
  • United States$366,157

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