Adelanto, California.
Typical home $399,665 (+1.9% in a year), asking rent $2,008 (+8.3%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,207 (+135%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,391 +2%
- $392,274$399,665 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,235 +24%
- $323,430$399,665 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.
- Adelanto$2,098
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Adelanto, CA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Adelanto, CA rose 8.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Adelanto runs $751/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,019 in Nov 2023.
That is $2,759 a month against $2,008 rent: a $2,098 mortgage payment, plus $233 property tax and $428 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Adelanto
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$2,759
- Renting$2,008
- Mortgage only$2,098
Property tax · $233/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Bernardino County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $428/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.
Living in Adelanto, San Bernardino County, California
Adelanto is a city of 38,046 people in San Bernardino County. Half its households earn more than $68,685 a year and half less, against $85,478 across San Bernardino County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 62% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 38% are rented. Unemployment in Adelanto was 8.0% in August 2026, and San Bernardino County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in transport and warehouses, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Adelanto is a city in the high desert of San Bernardino County, and its residents are younger than the county's typical resident. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though a good number of households rent, and incomes run below the county's. Winters are mild and cool, with lows around freezing, summers are hot and dry, and snow is rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in transport, warehouses and utilities, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Adelanto are Adelanto Elementary Schools, Apex Bulk Commodities, and General Atomics, which makes aircraft. Commutes are long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The California Route 66 Museum is a short drive away and recalls the old highway through the desert. A longer drive brings you to Silverwood Lake, a reservoir in the mountains, and to Saddleback Butte State Park, a protected area of desert landscape. The Mojave River is also a longer drive away.
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- 9,253households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 47 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Bernardino County had 848,961 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 57° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 64°. About 6 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Victorville weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Adelanto
- Adelanto Elementary SchoolsSchool district890FTE
- San Bernardino County- HDDC257
- Apex Bulk CommoditiesGeneral freight trucking, local195
- General Atomics - Adelanto - 9779 Yucca Rd - AA01; AA01A; AA03A; AA04Aircraft manufacturing179
- General Atomics - Adelanto - 9780 Rancho RdAircraft manufacturing160
- Northwest Pipe CompanyPipe made from purchased iron or steel151
- Clark Pacific - AdelantoArchitectural wall panels, precast concrete, manufacturing111
- San Bernardino County- Sheriff Victor Valley82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 19 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,689 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of AdelantoRelatively moderate
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of AdelantoRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Adelanto’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on San Bernardino County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Adelanto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Adelanto$399,665
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Adelanto listings, and the typical home goes pending in 37 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Adelanto27.66%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Adelanto112
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Adelanto29
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Adelanto$380,935
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Adelanto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Adelanto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.