Healdsburg, California.
Typical home $1,097,064 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $3,425 (+2.7%). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,260 (+65%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,012 +1%
- $1,090,052$1,097,064 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,783 +2%
- $1,076,282$1,097,064 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.
- Healdsburg$5,758
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Healdsburg, CA rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Healdsburg, CA rose 2.7% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Healdsburg runs $4,146/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,100 in Oct 2023.
That is $7,571 a month against $3,425 rent: a $5,758 mortgage payment, plus $638 property tax and $1,174 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Healdsburg
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$7,571
- Renting$3,425
- Mortgage only$5,758
Property tax · $638/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Sonoma County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,174/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 Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California
Healdsburg is a city of 11,340 people in Sonoma County. Half its households earn more than $103,554 a year and half less, against $104,674 across Sonoma County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 60% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 40% are rented. Unemployment in Sonoma County was 4.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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. Healdsburg is a small city in Sonoma County where residents are older than in many American towns, and where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run just below the county's, while typical home values and rents are high. Winters are cool and wet and summers are warm, with little or no snow.
Work. Residents work mainly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in Healdsburg are Healdsburg Hospital, Healdsburg Unified and Rack & Riddle. A fair number of people work from home, and the typical commute is short.
Things to do. In or beside town, the Hand Fan Museum is a small museum devoted to a single craft. A short drive away, Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve protects a grove of old redwoods. A longer drive away, the Russian River offers time by the water, and Goat Rock Beach is a stretch of coast.
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- 4,651households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
- 25%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 57° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 54°. About 43 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Healdsburg weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Healdsburg
- Healdsburg HospitalCritical access hospital182FTE
- Healdsburg UnifiedSchool district173FTE
- Rack & RiddleWineries166
- General Dynamics OTS Healdsburg and FolsomGuided missile and space vehicle parts manufacturing142
- SafewaySupermarkets and other grocery stores108
- Seaview InvestorsHotels, resort, without casinos37
- PARKS - Old RedwoodParks, nature34
- HealdsburgMail and parcel delivery33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 884 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Healdsburg’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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Healdsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Healdsburg$1,097,064
- 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 Healdsburg listings, and the typical home goes pending in 27 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Healdsburg18.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Healdsburg109
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Healdsburg21
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Healdsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Healdsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.