Bridgeport, California.
Typical home $428,163 (+6.4% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$948 (+73%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,573 +6%
- $402,590$428,163 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $3,981 +1%
- $424,181$428,163 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.
- Bridgeport$2,247
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Bridgeport, CA rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bridgeport, Mono County, California
Bridgeport, in Mono County, had 553 people in the 2020 census. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bridgeport is a very small community in Mono County, and nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Incomes run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month and a fair amount of snow, while July is warm and the year stays fairly dry.
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. Across Mono County, the largest workplaces include Mammoth Mountain SKI Area, the Southern Mono Health Care District and Mammoth Unified. Unemployment in the county is no different from a year ago, and the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Bridgeport Reservoir is a reservoir in or beside town, an easy place to spend time by the water. A longer drive away are Mono Lake, a lake with a well-known reserve around its shore, and Hoover Wilderness, a protected area of high country. The West Walker River, also a longer drive away, gives anglers and walkers a river to follow.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
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 January, with highs near 43° and lows near 10°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 43°. About 32 inches of snow and 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bridgeport weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mono County
- Mammoth Mountain SKI AreaAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations1,958
- Southern Mono Health Care DistrictCritical access hospital251FTE
- Mammoth UnifiedSchool district114FTE
- Aspen Skiing Company104
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores103
- Eastern Sierra UnifiedSchool district66FTE
- Alterra Mountain CompanySkiing facilities65
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture61
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,016 people in all across the county; Bridgeport has two 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
- WildfireVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bridgeport’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 Mono County.
Bridgeport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bridgeport$428,163
- 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.
- Bridgeport13
Zip codes with a Bridgeport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bridgeport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.