Hesperia, California.
Typical home $461,766 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,237 (+2.4%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,360 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,257 +2%
- $453,510$461,766 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,176 +20%
- $385,590$461,766 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.
- Hesperia$2,424
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Hesperia, CA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Hesperia, CA rose 2.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Hesperia runs $951/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,109 in May 2024.
That is $3,188 a month against $2,237 rent: a $2,424 mortgage payment, plus $270 property tax and $494 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Hesperia
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$3,188
- Renting$2,237
- Mortgage only$2,424
Property tax · $270/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Bernardino County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $494/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 Hesperia, San Bernardino County, California
Hesperia is a city of 99,818 people in San Bernardino County. Half its households earn more than $72,160 a year and half less, against $85,478 across San Bernardino County; 17% of its people live below the poverty line. 67% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 33% are rented. Unemployment in Hesperia was 6.6% in August 2026, and San Bernardino County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Hesperia is a city in the high desert of San Bernardino County, with a younger population than many American towns. Incomes run below the county's, and more households live below the poverty line than most would expect, though most homes are lived in by their owners. A four-year degree is held by fewer adults here than is typical, and the commute to work is long.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in the building trades, and in shops. The largest workplaces in Hesperia include Hesperia Unified, Walmart and Keolis Transit. Unemployment is a little lower than it was a year earlier, and across the county the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. The Mojave River is a short drive away, as is Silverwood Lake, a reservoir. The California Route 66 Museum is also a short drive away, and for a longer outing there is Big Bear Lake, another reservoir. Winters are cool and summers are hot, and the climate is dry, with little rain or snow through the year.
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- 29,245households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 17%below the poverty line
- 43 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Bernardino County had 848,961 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 35°; warmest in August, with highs near 97° and lows near 65°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hesperia 2E weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Hesperia
- Hesperia UnifiedSchool district2,156FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters471
- Keolis TransitMixed mode transit systems300
- TargetDiscount department stores295
- Alta Vista Innovation High DistrictSchool district199FTE
- First Student178
- San Bernardino County- TAD - HESPERIA 08159
- Trimac TransportationGeneral freight trucking, long-distance, truckload131
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,860 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
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of HesperiaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hesperia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 San Bernardino County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Hesperia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hesperia$461,766
- 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 4 Hesperia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 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.
- Hesperia24.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Hesperia24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Hesperia360
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Hesperia111
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Hesperia$454,934
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Hesperia99.79%
Zip codes with a Hesperia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hesperia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Hesperia
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92345 | Hesperia | 88,706 | $2,075 | $447,288 |
| 92344 | Hesperia | 21,349 | $2,767 | $515,479 |