Dublin, California.
Typical home $1,227,704 (-5.5% in a year), asking rent $3,325 (+6.1%). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,957 (+85%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $71,121 -5%
- $1,298,824$1,227,704 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,586 +1%
- $1,212,118$1,227,704 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.
- Dublin$6,444
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Dublin, CA fell 5.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Dublin, CA rose 6.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Dublin runs $5,229/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $6,695 in May 2024.
That is $8,554 a month against $3,325 rent: a $6,444 mortgage payment, plus $795 property tax and $1,314 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Dublin
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$8,554
- Renting$3,325
- Mortgage only$6,444
Property tax · $795/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Alameda County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,314/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 Dublin, Alameda County, California
Dublin is a city of 72,589 people in Alameda County. Half its households earn more than $214,385 a year and half less, against $129,367 across Alameda County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Dublin was 4.6% in August 2026, and Alameda County had 0.9% fewer 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. Dublin is a city in Alameda County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run well above the county's. Far fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and a large majority of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values and rents are high, and the population is on the younger side of middle age.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Dublin are Dublin Unified, the school district, Sutter Bay Medical Foundation, and Target. Commutes are fairly long, and a good share of people work from home, while unemployment has eased slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The most visited places nearby are a longer drive away, among them the Sacramento River and the stadium at Levi's Stadium. The USS Hornet, a museum ship, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are also a longer drive away. Winters are mild and rarely bring snow, and summers turn warm, with a modest amount of rain through the year.
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- 24,165households
- 70%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 35%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alameda County had 783,094 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 57°. About 15 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Livermore weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Dublin
- Dublin UnifiedSchool district1,012FTE
- DeSilva Gates ConstructionPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction616
- Sutter Bay Medical FoundationHealthcare389
- Men's WearhouseApparel stores, men's and boys' clothing281
- TargetDiscount department stores248
- New Dublin219
- TargetDiscount department stores195
- Carl Zeiss X-ray MicroscopyTubes, x-ray, manufacturing166
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,575 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Dublin’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 Alameda County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Dublin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Dublin$1,227,704
- 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 Dublin listings, and the typical home goes pending in 40 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Dublin36.14%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Dublin40
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Dublin180
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Dublin48
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Dublin$1,179,323
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Dublin98.16%
Zip codes with a Dublin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Dublin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.