Big Pine, California.
Typical home $425,662 (+2.1% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$782 (+54%) since Feb 2022.
- 1 year
- Up $8,742 +2%
- $416,920$425,662 since Sep 2025
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.
- Big Pine$2,234
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Big Pine, CA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Big Pine, Inyo County, California
Big Pine, in Inyo County, had 1,875 people in the 2020 census. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Inyo County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Big Pine is a small community in Inyo County, California, with a population that skews somewhat older than the typical American town. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes in the county run a little above what many rural places see. Winters are cold, with December highs a little above freezing and nights well below it, while July brings hot days; very little rain or melted snow falls across a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and government. Across Inyo County, some of the largest workplaces are the County of Inyo, Northern Inyo Hospital and Bishop Unified. Unemployment in the county is no different from a year ago, and the number of jobs slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Tinemaha Reservoir is a short drive away and makes an easy outing. Farther afield, a longer drive reaches Lake Sabrina, a reservoir, and Bishop Creek, a river. The Eastern California Museum is also a longer drive away for a quieter afternoon.
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- 685households
- 23%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Inyo County had 7,687 jobs in 2025, 0.4% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 54° and lows near 22°; warmest in July, with highs near 100° and lows near 57°. About 5 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bishop Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Inyo County
- County of InyoGeneral services departments, government470
- Northern Inyo HospitalCritical access hospital325FTE
- Xanterra Parks and Resorts Inc The Oasis At Death ValleyHotels except casino hotels and motels294
- Bishop UnifiedSchool district243FTE
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores117
- City of BishopExecutive offices, federal, state, and local92
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture91
- Southern Inyo HospitalCritical access hospital87FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 14 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,973 people in all across the county; Big Pine has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Big Pine’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 Inyo County.
Big Pine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Big Pine$425,662
- 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.
Zip codes with a Big Pine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Big Pine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.