Inverness, California.
Typical home $1,442,302 (+4.9% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,327 (+78%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $67,166 +5%
- $1,375,135$1,442,302 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $27,637 +2%
- $1,414,665$1,442,302 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.
- Inverness$7,570
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Inverness, CA rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Inverness, Marin County, California
Inverness, in Marin County, had 1,379 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Marin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marin County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Inverness is a small community on the western shore of Tomales Bay, with a population that has stayed modest and close-knit. Homes here are priced well above what is typical for the country, and the share of adults holding a four-year degree is high. Fewer households live below the poverty line than in many parts of the country. Winters are cool and summers mild: January is the coldest month, though even then days stay mild and nights stay above freezing, while September is the warmest, with pleasantly warm days. Snow is rare, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banking, insurance and property. Across Marin County, the largest workplaces include BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Marinhealth Medical Center and the Novato Unified school district. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, while the number of jobs across the county slipped slightly last year.
Things to do. Point Reyes National Seashore, a protected area of coast and open land, lies in or beside town, as does Lagunitas Creek, a river. A short drive away are Tomales Bay State Park, a protected area on the bay, and Alamere Falls, a waterfall. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected stand of old redwoods, is a longer drive away.
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- 843households
- 64%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
What people in Marin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marin County had 110,071 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 39°; warmest in September, with highs near 82° and lows near 51°. About 26 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Petaluma Airport weather station, 18 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marin County
- BioMarin PharmaceuticalPatent medicine preparations manufacturing2,086
- Marinhealth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,429FTE
- Township Building ServicesJanitorial services1,257
- Ultragenyx - NovatoBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in genetics691
- Novato UnifiedSchool district685FTE
- Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversity or college541
- College of MarinTwo-year college508
- KFH - San RafaelGeneral hospital489FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,838 people in all across the county; Inverness has none of its own. 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
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Inverness’ 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 Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Inverness home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Inverness$1,442,302
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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Zip codes with a Inverness address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Inverness — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.