Burlingame, California.
Typical home $2,845,047 (+11.6% in a year), asking rent $4,119 (+13.7%). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,405 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $294,664 +12%
- $2,550,383$2,845,047 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $476,872 +20%
- $2,368,175$2,845,047 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.
- Burlingame$14,933
- 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 Burlingame, CA rose 11.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Burlingame, CA rose 13.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Burlingame runs $15,307/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $19,426 a month against $4,119 rent: a $14,933 mortgage payment, plus $1,447 property tax and $3,046 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Burlingame
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$19,426
- Renting$4,119
- Mortgage only$14,933
Property tax · $1,447/mo 0.61% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Mateo County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $3,046/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Burlingame, San Mateo County, California
Burlingame is a city of 31,386 people in San Mateo County. Half its households earn more than $174,000 a year and half less, against $158,855 across San Mateo County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Burlingame was 3.7% in August 2026, and San Mateo County had 1.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Burlingame is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula, and its residents tend to be somewhat older than in many places. Household incomes run above the county's, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect, with renters making up a large share of households, and both home values and rents are very high.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The largest workplaces in Burlingame include Mills Peninsula Medical Center, Sutter Bay Medical Foundation and the City of Burlingame itself. The commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment is lower than a year ago, though jobs across San Mateo County have dipped slightly.
Things to do. Candlestick Park, a stadium, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Golden Gate Park, a large garden, and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, summers are gentle, and rain is modest through the year.
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- 12,266households
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 28%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Mateo County had 411,346 jobs in 2025, 1.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 44°; warmest in September, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 20 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Francisco International Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burlingame
- Mills Peninsula Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,438FTE
- ECC CorporateEnvironmental remediation services456
- Sutter Bay Medical FoundationHealthcare433
- Swissport Ground Handling - SFO - SFO-GHAOther airport services422
- City of BurlingameCity and town managers' offices325
- Hyatt Regency San Francisco AirportSfobu277
- Color HealthCancer detection program administration260
- American Medical Response250
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 8,066 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of BurlingameRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burlingame’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 San Mateo County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Burlingame home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burlingame$2,845,047
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Burlingame listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 days — 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.
- Burlingame14.64%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Burlingame13
- United States24
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burlingame43
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burlingame22
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Burlingame$2,751,544
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Burlingame107.52%
Zip codes with a Burlingame address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burlingame — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.