Bolinas, California.
Typical home $1,953,603 (+8.9% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,136 (+68%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $160,079 +9%
- $1,793,523$1,953,603 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $59,089 -3%
- $2,012,692$1,953,603 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.
- Bolinas$10,254
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Bolinas, CA rose 8.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bolinas, Marin County, California
Bolinas, in Marin County, had 1,483 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Marin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marin County work in professional services, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bolinas is a small coastal community in Marin County, with a population that is small even by the standards of the county. Homes here are far more costly than across most of the country, and incomes sit well below the county's, which is itself a high-income one. Winters are cool and wet rather than cold, with little or no snow, and summers stay mild, with the warmest days in August still comfortable. Rain and melted snow add up to a good deal over a year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, or in banking, insurance and property. A good number of people work from home, more than in many places. Across Marin County, the largest workplaces include MarinHealth Medical Center, the biotechnology firm BioMarin Pharmaceutical, and Novato Unified, the school district. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than it was a year ago, and the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is a short drive away, as is Alamere Falls, a waterfall. For a day in the city, Golden Gate Park, a large public garden, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are both a longer drive away.
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- 641households
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28%work from home
What people in Marin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marin County had 110,071 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 54°. About 44 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kentfield weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marin County
- BioMarin PharmaceuticalPatent medicine preparations manufacturing2,086
- Marinhealth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,429FTE
- Township Building ServicesJanitorial services1,257
- Ultragenyx - NovatoBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in genetics691
- Novato UnifiedSchool district685FTE
- Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversity or college541
- College of MarinTwo-year college508
- KFH - San RafaelGeneral hospital489FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,838 people in all across the county; Bolinas has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bolinas’ 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 Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Bolinas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bolinas$1,953,603
- 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.
- Bolinas11
Zip codes with a Bolinas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bolinas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Bolinas
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94924 | Bolinas | 1,372 | — | $1,954,560 |
| 94938 | Lagunitas | 437 | — | $1,044,557 |