Zip lookup · CA

94952
Petaluma, California.

Petaluma, Sonoma County, CA · Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro · population 33,785

What it costs per month · 94952 $5,554/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,497 (+82%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $34,431 +3%
$1,023,786$1,058,217 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $82,202 +8%
$976,016$1,058,217 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 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 94952 $5,554 United States $1,922
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 94952$5,554
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 43 years.

Typical home values in zip 94952 rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 94952 rose 5.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 94952 runs $4,307/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,851 in Oct 2023.

That is $7,287 a month against $2,980 rent: a $5,554 mortgage payment, plus $600 property tax and $1,133 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 94952

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 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $7,287 Renting $2,980 Mortgage only $5,554
$2,500 $5,000 $7,500 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$7,287
  • Renting$2,980
  • Mortgage only$5,554

Property tax · $600/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for 2 counties

Insurance & upkeep · $1,133/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: Marin County, CA 51% · Sonoma County, CA 49%

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Petaluma, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,980 as of Sep 2026
+5.8%year on year
Typical home value $1,058,217 as of Sep 2026
+3.4%year on year

Asking rent — 94952

Against the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 94952 $2,980 Santa Rosa $2,666 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2020 2022 2024 2026
  • 94952$2,980
  • Santa Rosa$2,666
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 94952

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 94952 $1,058,217 Santa Rosa $782,966 United States $366,157
$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 94952$1,058,217
  • Santa Rosa$782,966
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 37 zips in range — sorting picks from all 37.

10 mi 20 mi 50 mi
Miles Zip City Population Rent Home value
6.9 94931 Cotati 9,487 $2,928 $718,753
6.9 94971 Tomales 276 — $1,093,355
7.4 94940 Marshall 148 — $1,537,070
8.9 94928 Rohnert Park 46,829 $2,540 $705,550
9.1 94951 Penngrove 3,294 — $1,259,488
10.8 94954 Petaluma 37,574 $2,825 $829,040
10.9 94929 Dillon Beach 293 — $1,359,974
11.2 94947 Novato 24,100 $4,238 $1,012,808
11.4 95407 Santa Rosa 42,036 $2,849 $624,995
11.7 94946 Nicasio 715 — $2,118,994
12.8 95472 Sebastopol 28,747 $2,879 $1,093,293
12.9 94956 Point Reyes Station 1,080 — $1,542,479
12.9 94937 Inverness 1,009 — $1,463,402
13.4 94945 Novato 17,635 $4,612 $1,063,156
13.9 94938 Lagunitas 437 — $1,044,557
15.1 95444 Graton 625 — $792,281
15.2 95401 Santa Rosa 36,861 $2,438 $644,900
15.2 94933 Forest Knolls 1,033 — $863,910
15.3 95405 Santa Rosa 22,744 $2,697 $723,729
16.0 94923 Bodega Bay 1,483 — $1,445,016
16.3 94963 San Geronimo 739 — $1,272,219
16.5 94973 Woodacre 1,689 — $1,116,587
16.5 95476 Sonoma 35,196 $2,991 $931,975
16.9 95442 Glen Ellen 3,449 — $1,204,977
17.0 94949 Novato 17,787 $3,883 $1,207,546
17.0 95419 Camp Meeker 152 — $446,619
17.2 95404 Santa Rosa 37,011 $2,412 $804,800
18.0 95439 Fulton 486 — $1,011,693
18.1 95409 Santa Rosa 25,616 $2,790 $767,738
18.2 94903 San Rafael 30,615 $3,415 $1,250,063

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