Aguanga, California.
Typical home $565,310 (+1.4% in a year). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,530 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,042 +1%
- $557,268$565,310 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,263 +12%
- $505,047$565,310 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.
- Aguanga$2,967
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Aguanga, CA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Aguanga, Riverside County, California
Aguanga, in Riverside County, had 989 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Riverside County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Riverside County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Aguanga is a small rural community in Riverside County, home to very few people compared with the towns around it. Homes here are valued well above what the typical home is worth across much of the country, and the county's household incomes sit comfortably in the middle of the national range. Winters are cold, with chilly days and nights that dip well below what most Californians expect, and summers turn hot by August.
Work. People who live in Aguanga work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Riverside County, the largest workplaces include the University of California-Riverside, the Corona-Norco Unified school district and Amazon's warehousing operations. The county has added a small number of jobs over the past year, and unemployment is little changed from a year ago.
Things to do. Much of what draws people outdoors is within reach by car. Otay Mountain Wilderness, a protected wild area, and Cahuilla Creek, a stream, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park offers open desert country, and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is a zoo that takes more time to reach.
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What people in Riverside County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Riverside County had 846,070 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 51° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 26 inches of snow and 30 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palomar Mountain Obsy weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverside County
- University of California-RiversideUniversity or college4,684
- Corona-Norco UnifiedSchool district4,333FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,330
- Riverside UnifiedSchool district3,906FTE
- Riverside University Health SystemGeneral hospital3,902FTE
- Eisenhower Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,892FTE
- Moreno Valley UnifiedSchool district3,304FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,218
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,391 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229,739 people in all across the county; Aguanga has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- WildfireVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Aguanga’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. 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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Aguanga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Aguanga$565,310
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Aguanga listings — 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.
- Aguanga27.65%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Aguanga23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Aguanga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Aguanga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.