Coachella, California.
Typical home $432,471 (+0.8% in a year). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,296 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,287 +1%
- $429,184$432,471 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $90,149 +26%
- $342,322$432,471 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.
- Coachella$2,270
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Coachella, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coachella, Riverside County, California
Coachella is a city of 41,941 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $68,596 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Coachella was 12.8% in August 2026, and Riverside County had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coachella is a city in Riverside County where residents are younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes are below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in December still pleasant by most standards. Summers are extremely hot, and rain and snow are rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Coachella are Armtec Defense Technologies, Paladar and Walmart. Unemployment is higher than in much of the country and has changed little over the past year, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Shields Date Gardens and Valerie Jean Dates, both gardens, are a short drive away, as is Lake Cahuilla, a reservoir. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to Joshua Tree National Park and the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens.
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- 12,473households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Riverside County had 846,070 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 69° and lows near 45°; warmest in July, with highs near 106° and lows near 82°. About 3 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Indio Fire Station weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coachella
- Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians & its EnterprisesIndian affairs programs, government818
- Armtec Defense TechnologiesAmmunition manufacturing523
- PaladarGuitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing220
- WalmartSupermarkets and other grocery stores113
- Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling97
- Food 4 Less FoodsCoSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- Smart & FinalSupermarkets and other grocery retailers41
- CoachellaMail and parcel delivery40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,995 people in all. 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coachella’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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Coachella home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coachella$432,471
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Coachella 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.
- Coachella15.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coachella45
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coachella13
Zip codes with a Coachella address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coachella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.