Fullerton, California.
Typical home $1,037,545 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $2,888 (+3.4%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,982 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,042 +3%
- $1,007,503$1,037,545 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $232,660 +29%
- $804,885$1,037,545 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.
- Fullerton$5,446
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Fullerton, CA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fullerton, CA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fullerton runs $4,237/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,418 in Jan 2025.
That is $7,125 a month against $2,888 rent: a $5,446 mortgage payment, plus $569 property tax and $1,111 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fullerton
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$7,125
- Renting$2,888
- Mortgage only$5,446
Property tax · $569/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Orange County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,111/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 Fullerton, Orange County, California
Fullerton is a city of 143,617 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $104,286 a year and half less, against $116,289 across Orange County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Fullerton was 4.7% in August 2026, and Orange County had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Fullerton is a large city in Orange County, with people of a middle age on the whole and a good share of adults who hold a four-year degree. Household incomes run below the county's, and about as many homes are rented as are lived in by their owners. Typical home values and rents are high, and winters are mild and cool rather than cold, with summers that turn warm in August and little rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, manufacturing, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Fullerton are St. Jude Medical Center Fullerton, Fullerton College and the Fullerton Joint Union High Schools. The usual commute is a fairly long one, though a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, both amusement parks, are a short drive away, as is Knott's Berry Farm, another amusement park. The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is also a short drive from town. For a day of stadiums, theatres and sights, Los Angeles is a longer drive.
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- 48,117households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 1,663,220 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 68° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fullerton Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fullerton
- St Jude Medical Center FullertonGeneral hospital2,216FTE
- Fullerton Joint Union High SchoolsSchool district1,452FTE
- Fullerton CollegeTwo-year college1,192
- Fullerton Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,040FTE
- City of Fullerton666
- Howmet Global Fastening SystemsBolts, metal, manufacturing542
- Crittenton ServicesBoys' and girls' residential facilities383
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer375
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 74 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 11,895 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fullerton’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 Orange County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Fullerton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fullerton$1,037,545
- 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 5 Fullerton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 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.
- Fullerton21.30%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fullerton22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fullerton206
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fullerton76
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fullerton$1,012,787
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fullerton101.29%
Zip codes with a Fullerton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fullerton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fullerton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92833 | Fullerton | 51,842 | $3,267 | $980,282 |
| 92831 | Fullerton | 35,618 | $2,517 | $1,055,747 |
| 92832 | Fullerton | 27,298 | $2,837 | $889,076 |
| 92835 | Fullerton | 26,005 | $4,265 | $1,298,594 |