Avila Beach, California.
Typical home $1,598,346 (+0.1% in a year). San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,145 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,387 +0%
- $1,596,959$1,598,346 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $265,561 +20%
- $1,332,785$1,598,346 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.
- Avila Beach$8,389
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Avila Beach, CA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avila Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California
Avila Beach, in San Luis Obispo County, had 1,576 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in San Luis Obispo County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Luis Obispo County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avila Beach is a small coastal community in San Luis Obispo County, home to a modest number of people. Homes here are very expensive, far above what is typical across the country, and household incomes in the county are comfortable. A smaller share of people live below the poverty line than is common nationally. Winters are mild, with January the coolest month and little or no snow, while October is the warmest. Rain is light across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across San Luis Obispo County, the largest workplaces include California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, the Lucia Mar Unified school district and DSH-Atascadero, a psychiatric hospital. Unemployment in the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. San Luis Obispo Creek runs in or beside town. A short drive away are Pismo State Beach, a beach, and Montaña de Oro State Park, a protected area. Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a museum, is also a short drive away, and Morro Bay State Park is a longer drive.
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- 5%below the poverty line
What people in San Luis Obispo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Luis Obispo County had 121,634 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 65° and lows near 44°; warmest in October, with highs near 72° and lows near 53°. About 18 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pismo Beach weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Luis Obispo County
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis ObispoUniversity or college2,969
- Pearce ServicesElectric contracting2,648
- DSH-AtascaderoHospitals, psychiatric1,828
- California Men's Colony - San Luis ObispoCorrectional institutions1,199
- Lucia Mar UnifiedSchool district1,076FTE
- San Luis Coastal UnifiedSchool district855FTE
- Paso Robles Joint UnifiedSchool district716FTE
- City of San Luis ObispoExecutive offices, federal, state, and local657
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 249 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,630 people in all across the county; Avila Beach has two of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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 floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avila Beach’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 San Luis Obispo County and the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
Avila Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avila Beach$1,598,346
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avila Beach11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Avila Beach5
Zip codes with a Avila Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avila Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.