Bishop, California.
Typical home $591,919 (+5.5% in a year), asking rent $2,095 .
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,578 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,629 +5%
- $561,289$591,919 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,686 +20%
- $492,233$591,919 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.
- Bishop$3,107
- 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 Bishop, CA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bishop, Mono County, California
Bishop is a city of 3,819 people in Mono County. Half its households earn more than $83,686 a year and half less, against $99,415 across Mono County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Mono County was 4.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mono County work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bishop is a small city where incomes run below the county's as a whole, and a fair number of residents live below the poverty line. Homes are priced well above what the local incomes might suggest. Many adults hold a four-year degree, and the trip to work is short for most people, with some working from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Bishop are Northern Inyo Hospital, Bishop Unified and Vons. Across Mono County, unemployment is no different from a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Bishop Creek, a river a short drive away, and Fish Slough Area of Critical Environmental Concern, a protected area also close by, are the nearest places to get outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Convict Lake and to Lake Sabrina, a reservoir. Winters are cold, with highs and lows that stay chilly in December, and summers are hot in July, with very little rain or snow across the year.
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- 2,133households
- 46%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 16 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What people in Mono County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mono County had 8,196 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more 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, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bishop
- Northern Inyo HospitalCritical access hospital325FTE
- Bishop UnifiedSchool district243FTE
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores117
- City of BishopExecutive offices, federal, state, and local92
- High Country LumberHome centers, building materials82
- LadwpUtilities sector71
- LadwpUtilities sector69
- Southern California EdisonUtility company49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,028 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bishop’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 Mono County.
Bishop home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bishop$591,919
- 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.
- Bishop11
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bishop5
Zip codes with a Bishop address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bishop — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.