Bodega Bay, California.
Typical home $1,446,893 (+3.7% in a year). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,062 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $51,913 +4%
- $1,394,979$1,446,893 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $228,968 +19%
- $1,217,925$1,446,893 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.
- Bodega Bay$7,594
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Bodega Bay, CA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, California
Bodega Bay, in Sonoma County, had 912 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sonoma County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sonoma County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bodega Bay is a small coastal community where the population is older than in most places, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are valued well above what is typical across the country. Winters are cool and summers stay mild, with the warmest weather arriving in September and rain falling through much of the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops, and in manufacturing. Unemployment across Sonoma County has eased a little compared with a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before. Among the county's largest workplaces are Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa Junior College and Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
Things to do. Doran Regional Park, a beach in or beside town, is the easiest place to walk by the water. Sonoma Coast State Park, a protected area, and Goat Rock Beach are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Fort Ross, a historic fort, is a longer drive up the coast.
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- 2%below the poverty line
What people in Sonoma County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 44°; warmest in September, with highs near 66° and lows near 51°. About 29 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bodega Wsw weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sonoma County
- Solairus AviationPassenger air transportation, nonscheduled1,800
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,755
- Keysight TechnologiesDigital test equipment manufacturing1,517
- Santa Rosa Junior CollegeTwo-year college1,491
- Santa Rosa Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,444FTE
- Santa Rosa High SchoolsSchool district1,119FTE
- Sonoma State UniversityUniversity or college1,058
- KFH - Santa RosaGeneral hospital884FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 414 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 48,136 people in all across the county; Bodega Bay has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Bodega BayRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bodega Bay’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Bodega Bay home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bodega Bay$1,446,893
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bodega Bay 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.
- Bodega Bay19.67%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bodega Bay24
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bodega Bay4
Zip codes with a Bodega Bay address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bodega Bay — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.