Creston, California.
Typical home $980,701 (-2.1% in a year). San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,233 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $21,163 -2%
- $1,001,865$980,701 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $31,381 +3%
- $949,321$980,701 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.
- Creston$5,147
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Creston, CA fell 2.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Creston, San Luis Obispo County, California
Creston, in San Luis Obispo County, had 98 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in San Luis Obispo County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Luis Obispo County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Creston is a very small community in San Luis Obispo County, California, where residents tend to know one another. Winters are mild, with the coldest weather in December and little or no snow, while August is the warmest month, with hot afternoons. Rain, not snow, is the usual form of winter precipitation.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Professional and business services and retail shops are also common sources of work. Across San Luis Obispo County, unemployment has eased a little over the past year, while the number of jobs has dipped slightly.
Things to do. The Charles Paddock Zoo is a short drive away and makes an easy outing for families. Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, a museum, is a longer drive away and offers a look at the area's history. Cayucos State Beach, also a longer drive away, gives a coastal change of scene.
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What people in San Luis Obispo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Luis Obispo County had 121,634 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 61° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 53°. About 15 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paso Robles weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Luis Obispo County
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis ObispoUniversity or college2,969
- Pearce ServicesElectric contracting2,648
- DSH-AtascaderoHospitals, psychiatric1,828
- California Men's Colony - San Luis ObispoCorrectional institutions1,199
- Lucia Mar UnifiedSchool district1,076FTE
- San Luis Coastal UnifiedSchool district855FTE
- Paso Robles Joint UnifiedSchool district716FTE
- City of San Luis ObispoExecutive offices, federal, state, and local657
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 249 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,630 people in all across the county; Creston has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Creston’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 Luis Obispo County and the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
Creston home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Creston$980,701
- 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.
- Creston5
Zip codes with a Creston address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Creston — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Creston
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93453 | Santa Margarita | 2,344 | — | $749,341 |
| 93432 | Creston | 1,142 | — | $971,640 |