Zip lookup · CA

96150
South Lake Tahoe, California.

South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, CA · Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro · population 29,646

What it costs per month · 96150 $3,501/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,756 (+101%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Up $15,448 +2%
$651,638$667,087 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $1,565 +0%
$665,522$667,087 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 96150 $3,501 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 96150$3,501
  • United States$1,922

Typical home values in zip 96150 rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 96150 rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 96150 runs $2,227/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,588 in Oct 2022.

That is $4,604 a month against $2,377 rent: a $3,501 mortgage payment, plus $389 property tax and $714 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 96150

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 $3,000 $4,000 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Owning all in $4,604 Renting $2,377 Mortgage only $3,501
$2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2022 2024 2026
  • Owning all in$4,604
  • Renting$2,377
  • Mortgage only$3,501

Property tax · $389/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for El Dorado County, CA

Insurance & upkeep · $714/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: South Lake Tahoe, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,377 as of Sep 2026
+5.4%year on year
Typical home value $667,087 as of Sep 2026
+2.4%year on year

Asking rent — 96150

Against the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 96150 $2,377 Sacramento $2,269 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 2022 2024 2026
  • 96150$2,377
  • Sacramento$2,269
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 96150

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 96150 $667,087 Sacramento $572,813 United States $366,157
$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 96150$667,087
  • Sacramento$572,813
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

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8.4 95735 Twin Bridges 51 — $314,519
9.0 89449 Stateline 2,712 $2,934 $765,652
9.0 96142 Tahoma 725 $3,750 $905,558
10.4 89448 Zephyr Cove 1,698 $3,500 $1,487,732
12.0 95720 Kyburz 29 — $309,633
13.6 89411 Genoa 1,284 — $1,156,837
13.6 89460 Gardnerville 14,534 $2,000 $594,904
14.3 89413 Glenbrook 737 — $3,440,216
15.5 96120 Markleeville 1,349 — $531,143
16.9 96141 Homewood 609 — $1,347,222
17.8 89705 Carson City 4,935 — $538,931
18.2 89423 Minden 11,221 $2,835 $712,514

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