Danville, California.
Typical home $1,821,427 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $4,324 (+2.9%). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,963 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,314 +0%
- $1,817,112$1,821,427 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $135,994 +8%
- $1,685,432$1,821,427 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.
- Danville$9,560
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 45 years.
Typical home values in Danville, CA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Danville, CA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Danville runs $8,440/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $9,608 in May 2024.
That is $12,763 a month against $4,324 rent: a $9,560 mortgage payment, plus $1,253 property tax and $1,950 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Danville
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$12,763
- Renting$4,324
- Mortgage only$9,560
Property tax · $1,253/mo 0.83% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Contra Costa County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,950/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 Danville, Contra Costa County, California
Danville is a town of 43,582 people in Contra Costa County. Half its households earn more than $232,216 a year and half less, against $127,229 across Contra Costa County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 86% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 14% are rented. Unemployment in Danville was 4.6% in August 2026, and Contra Costa County had 0.1% more 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. Danville is a town where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and incomes run well above the county's. Residents tend to be older than in many places, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and cool, and summers turn warm. Snow is a rarity, and rain falls mostly outside the warm months.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in banks, insurance and property. Some work in manufacturing too. The largest workplaces in town include San Ramon Valley Unified, the school district, along with Safeway and Eskaton, which runs assisted-living care. Many people work from home, and those who commute face a fairly long trip to work.
Things to do. Days out mean a longer drive. The Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River are both a longer drive away for time by the water. For museums, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Computer History Museum are each a longer drive away, as is Golden Gate Park, a large garden and public park.
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- 15,545households
- 74%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 37%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Contra Costa County had 374,448 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 53° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 1 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Diablo Junction weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Danville
- San Ramon Valley UnifiedSchool district2,519FTE
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores150
- EskatonAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities140
- James E Roberts-ObayashiCondominium, single-family, construction general contractors125
- Trader Joe's 0065 DanvilleGrocery store90
- Danville Post-Acute RehabSkilled nursing facilities80
- DanvilleMail and parcel delivery71
- Sunrise Senior Living, LLC.Assisted living71
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,054 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Danville’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 Contra Costa County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Danville home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Danville$1,821,427
- 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 3 Danville listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Danville29.27%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Danville21
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Danville187
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Danville63
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Danville$1,890,433
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Danville98.74%
Zip codes with a Danville address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Danville — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Danville
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94526 | Danville | 32,584 | $3,797 | $1,711,410 |
| 94506 | Danville | 27,055 | $4,903 | $1,982,682 |