Indian Wells, California.
Typical home $1,447,796 (+3.4% in a year), asking rent $7,000 . Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,559 (+150%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $47,926 +3%
- $1,399,870$1,447,796 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $339,841 +31%
- $1,107,955$1,447,796 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.
- Indian Wells$7,599
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Indian Wells, CA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Indian Wells, Riverside County, California
Indian Wells is a city of 4,757 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $162,990 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 80% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 20% are rented. Unemployment in Riverside County was 6.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Riverside County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Indian Wells is a small desert city in Riverside County, home to an older population, with a median age well into retirement years. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are high. Household incomes run well above the county's, relatively few residents live below the poverty line, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Commutes are fairly short. Across Riverside County, some of the largest workplaces are Corona-Norco Unified, the University of California-Riverside and Riverside Unified, alongside Amazon's warehousing. The county's job market has grown only slightly over the past year, and unemployment there is little changed from a year earlier.
Things to do. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is in or beside town, and the McCallum Theatre is a short drive away. For a longer outing, Joshua Tree National Park is a longer drive away. Winters are mild, summers are very hot, and rain is scarce and snow almost unknown, so outdoor visits are most comfortable in the cooler months.
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- 2,468households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 19 mintypical commute
What people in Riverside County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Riverside County had 846,070 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 69° and lows near 45°; warmest in July, with highs near 106° and lows near 82°. About 3 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Indio Fire Station weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Riverside County
- University of California-RiversideUniversity or college4,684
- Corona-Norco UnifiedSchool district4,333FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage4,330
- Riverside UnifiedSchool district3,906FTE
- Riverside University Health SystemGeneral hospital3,902FTE
- Eisenhower Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,892FTE
- Moreno Valley UnifiedSchool district3,304FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,218
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,391 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229,739 people in all across the county; Indian Wells has one 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
- 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 Indian Wells’ 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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Indian Wells home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Indian Wells$1,447,796
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Indian Wells listings — 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.
- Indian Wells17.98%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Indian Wells99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Indian Wells17
Zip codes with a Indian Wells address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Indian Wells — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.