94070
San Carlos, California.
San Carlos, San Mateo County, CA · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro · population 30,447
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$6,452 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $190,487 +8%
- $2,254,521$2,445,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $413,929 +20%
- $2,031,080$2,445,009 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.
- 94070$12,833
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in zip 94070 rose 8.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 94070 rose 7.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 94070 runs $12,330/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $16,694 a month against $4,365 rent: a $12,833 mortgage payment, plus $1,244 property tax and $2,618 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 94070
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$16,694
- Renting$4,365
- Mortgage only$12,833
Property tax · $1,244/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Mateo County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $2,618/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 Carlos, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 94070
Against the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro and the national benchmark.
- 94070$4,365
- San Francisco$3,445
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 94070
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 94070$2,445,009
- San Francisco$1,120,379
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
Showing 30 of 75 zips in range — sorting picks from all 75.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 | 94002 | Belmont | 27,534 | $3,789 | $2,270,293 |
| 2.9 | 94065 | Redwood City | 11,673 | $3,986 | $1,778,947 |
| 3.1 | 94061 | Redwood City | 37,048 | $3,820 | $1,963,145 |
| 3.4 | 94403 | San Mateo | 43,276 | $3,886 | $1,808,982 |
| 3.4 | 94063 | Redwood City | 34,433 | $4,678 | $1,272,610 |
| 4.1 | 94404 | San Mateo | 35,881 | $4,467 | $1,702,015 |
| 4.6 | 94402 | San Mateo | 25,475 | $4,073 | $2,455,158 |
| 4.7 | 94027 | Atherton | 7,002 | $15,500 | $8,728,582 |
| 5.2 | 94062 | Redwood City | 25,759 | $3,541 | $2,711,349 |
| 5.8 | 94025 | Menlo Park | 40,721 | $4,261 | $2,934,751 |
| 6.0 | 94401 | San Mateo | 35,295 | $3,671 | $1,204,254 |
| 7.5 | 94301 | Palo Alto | 17,508 | $4,219 | $4,337,456 |
| 7.8 | 94305 | Stanford | 18,509 | — | $3,211,123 |
| 7.9 | 94010 | Burlingame | 43,025 | $4,144 | $3,518,459 |
| 8.0 | 94019 | Half Moon Bay | 14,419 | $4,625 | $1,585,013 |
| 8.9 | 94303 | Palo Alto | 46,879 | $5,522 | $2,061,587 |
| 8.9 | 94304 | Palo Alto | 5,000 | — | $3,193,983 |
| 9.1 | 94028 | Portola Valley | 6,531 | — | $4,331,179 |
| 9.5 | 94306 | Palo Alto | 27,183 | $4,312 | $3,368,178 |
| 10.2 | 94030 | Millbrae | 22,689 | $4,081 | $2,055,555 |
| 11.0 | 94555 | Fremont | 37,501 | $3,542 | $1,425,523 |
| 11.1 | 94018 | El Granada | 3,834 | — | $1,484,722 |
| 12.0 | 94038 | Moss Beach | 2,683 | — | $1,486,475 |
| 12.0 | 94022 | Los Altos | 20,027 | $6,586 | $5,059,470 |
| 12.3 | 94545 | Hayward | 32,843 | $2,807 | $874,613 |
| 12.5 | 94043 | Mountain View | 33,176 | $4,594 | $1,513,645 |
| 12.5 | 94066 | San Bruno | 42,728 | $3,358 | $1,289,406 |
| 12.8 | 94587 | Union City | 67,464 | $2,913 | $1,196,418 |
| 13.0 | 94037 | Montara | 2,917 | — | $1,471,750 |
| 13.0 | 94040 | Mountain View | 35,632 | $4,440 | $2,782,759 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.