Davenport, California.
Typical home $982,459 (+1.5% in a year). Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,904 (+59%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,111 +1%
- $968,348$982,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $134,070 -12%
- $1,116,529$982,459 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.
- Davenport$5,157
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Davenport, CA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Davenport, Santa Cruz County, California
Davenport, in Santa Cruz County, had 388 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Santa Cruz County was 5.3% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Santa Cruz County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Davenport is a very small community on the Santa Cruz County coast, home to far fewer people than most towns. Typical home values run well above what is usual across the country, and the county's household incomes are high as well. Winters are mild and the warmest month is hot by coastal standards, with little or no snow and a good deal of rain over the course of a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Across Santa Cruz County, the largest workplaces include the University of California-Santa Cruz, Dominican Hospital and Pajaro Valley Unified. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Coast Dairies, a protected area, lies in or beside town. A short drive away are Natural Bridges State Beach, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, and the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, a museum of railroading. Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a longer drive away for those who want more time among the redwoods.
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- 7%below the poverty line
What people in Santa Cruz County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Santa Cruz County had 104,438 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 64° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 90° and lows near 51°. About 50 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ben Lomond #4 weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Santa Cruz County
- Granite ConstructionCorporate offices4,846
- University of California-Santa CruzUniversity or college4,465
- Pajaro Valley UnifiedSchool district1,927FTE
- Reiter Berry FarmsBerry farming1,600
- City of Santa Cruz CITY OF SANTA CRUZCity of santa cruz1,524
- Dominican HospitalGeneral hospital1,136FTE
- County of Santa CruzAdministration of public health programs789
- Cabrillo CollegeTwo-year college780
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 196 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 39,903 people in all across the county; Davenport has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Davenport’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 Santa Cruz County and the Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro.
Davenport home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Davenport$982,459
- 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.
Zip codes with a Davenport address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Davenport — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.