Castroville, California.
Typical home $677,202 (-0.5% in a year). Salinas, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,556 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,625 -1%
- $680,827$677,202 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,834 +3%
- $657,368$677,202 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.
- Castroville$3,554
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Castroville, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Castroville, Monterey County, California
Castroville, in Monterey County, had 7,515 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $89,354 a year and half less, against $97,230 across Monterey County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Monterey County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Castroville is a small community in Monterey County, and its people are young, with a median age well below that of much of the country. Fewer homes are lived in by their owners than you might expect, so renting is common, and household incomes run below the county's while a larger share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical home costs a good deal, even as incomes sit lower than across the county.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in the building trades, and in professional and business services. Across Monterey County, the largest workplaces include Foothill Packing, Taylor Fresh Foods and Community Hosp. Monterey Peninsula. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, and the county has a few fewer jobs than the year before, while the typical commute is a fairly long one and few people work from home.
Things to do. Salinas River State Beach is in or beside town, and Moss Landing State Beach and Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve are a short drive away for walking and watching wildlife. The National Steinbeck Center, a museum, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is a longer drive. Winters are cool and mild, summers are warm without being hot, snow is rare, and the rain is light.
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- 1,579households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monterey County had 198,525 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 62° and lows near 40°; warmest in September, with highs near 75° and lows near 52°. About 15 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salinas #2 weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monterey County
- Foothill PackingAgriculture production or harvesting crews3,128
- Premier Packing of CaliforniaFarm labor contractors2,754
- PRO AG HarvestingFarm labor contractors2,687
- Taylor Fresh FoodsPacking fruits and vegetables2,619
- Community Hosp. Monterey PeninsulaGeneral hospital2,046FTE
- Dominguez FarmsFarm labor contractors2,042
- Camarillo Harvesting, LLC SalinasStrawberry farming2,000
- Tanimura & AntleVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production1,889
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 371 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79,481 people in all across the county; Castroville has two of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively 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 Castroville’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 Monterey County and the Salinas, CA metro.
Castroville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Castroville$677,202
- 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.
- Castroville12
Zip codes with a Castroville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Castroville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.