94303
East Palo Alto, California.
East Palo Alto, San Mateo County, CA · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro · population 46,879
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,592 (+74%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $62,767 +3%
- $1,998,821$2,061,587 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $186,274 +10%
- $1,875,313$2,061,587 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.
- 94303$10,821
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in zip 94303 rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 94303 rose 15.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 94303 runs $8,624/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $9,596 in Jan 2025.
That is $14,147 a month against $5,522 rent: a $10,821 mortgage payment, plus $1,119 property tax and $2,207 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 94303
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$14,147
- Renting$5,522
- Mortgage only$10,821
Property tax · $1,119/mo 0.65% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 2 counties
Insurance & upkeep · $2,207/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.
This zip spans 2 counties: Santa Clara County, CA 67% · San Mateo County, CA 33%
Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: East Palo Alto, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 94303
Against the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro and the national benchmark.
- 94303$5,522
- San Francisco$3,445
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 94303
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 94303$2,061,587
- San Francisco$1,120,379
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
Showing 30 of 82 zips in range — sorting picks from all 82.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7 | 94301 | Palo Alto | 17,508 | $4,219 | $4,337,456 |
| 2.5 | 94306 | Palo Alto | 27,183 | $4,312 | $3,368,178 |
| 3.5 | 94025 | Menlo Park | 40,721 | $4,261 | $2,934,751 |
| 3.7 | 94305 | Stanford | 18,509 | — | $3,211,123 |
| 3.8 | 94043 | Mountain View | 33,176 | $4,594 | $1,513,645 |
| 4.5 | 94304 | Palo Alto | 5,000 | — | $3,193,983 |
| 4.6 | 94027 | Atherton | 7,002 | $15,500 | $8,728,582 |
| 4.9 | 94041 | Mountain View | 16,050 | $4,652 | $2,229,903 |
| 5.2 | 94040 | Mountain View | 35,632 | $4,440 | $2,782,759 |
| 5.7 | 94063 | Redwood City | 34,433 | $4,678 | $1,272,610 |
| 6.3 | 94089 | Sunnyvale | 22,699 | $3,897 | $1,399,408 |
| 6.5 | 94560 | Newark | 46,903 | $3,670 | $1,185,035 |
| 6.5 | 94061 | Redwood City | 37,048 | $3,820 | $1,963,145 |
| 6.6 | 95002 | Alviso | 1,542 | — | $1,162,613 |
| 6.7 | 94022 | Los Altos | 20,027 | $6,586 | $5,059,470 |
| 7.0 | 94024 | Los Altos | 23,051 | $8,082 | $4,604,457 |
| 7.0 | 94085 | Sunnyvale | 24,024 | $4,026 | $1,474,341 |
| 7.2 | 94555 | Fremont | 37,501 | $3,542 | $1,425,523 |
| 7.3 | 94028 | Portola Valley | 6,531 | — | $4,331,179 |
| 7.6 | 94086 | Sunnyvale | 49,746 | $4,122 | $1,839,541 |
| 8.2 | 94087 | Sunnyvale | 57,767 | $3,694 | $2,712,454 |
| 8.9 | 94070 | San Carlos | 30,447 | $4,365 | $2,445,009 |
| 9.1 | 94065 | Redwood City | 11,673 | $3,986 | $1,778,947 |
| 9.4 | 95054 | Santa Clara | 25,704 | $4,163 | $1,431,915 |
| 9.4 | 94538 | Fremont | 67,781 | $3,296 | $1,254,332 |
| 9.7 | 95134 | San Jose | 30,471 | $3,962 | $1,009,303 |
| 9.9 | 94062 | Redwood City | 25,759 | $3,541 | $2,711,349 |
| 10.1 | 95014 | Cupertino | 60,932 | $4,258 | $2,957,803 |
| 10.1 | 94587 | Union City | 67,464 | $2,913 | $1,196,418 |
| 10.2 | 95051 | Santa Clara | 62,054 | $3,922 | $1,792,706 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.