Jacumba, California.
Typical home $341,437 (+9.8% in a year). San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,073 (+149%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $30,557 +10%
- $310,880$341,437 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $93,279 +38%
- $248,158$341,437 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.
- Jacumba$1,792
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Jacumba, CA rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jacumba, San Diego County, California
Jacumba, in San Diego County, had 540 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in San Diego County was 4.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Diego County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jacumba is a very small community in the eastern part of San Diego County, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are valued well below what is typical for the county, though incomes in the wider county run high. Winters are mild by day and cold at night, while summers turn hot, and the year brings little rain.
Work. Across San Diego County, residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces across the county are the University of California-San Diego, San Diego Unified and the County of San Diego. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Desert View Tower, a tourist attraction, is a short drive away, as is Mountain Springs County Park, a protected area. A longer drive leads to Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, another protected area. The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum is also a longer drive away for those who like old trains.
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What people in San Diego County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Diego County had 1,535,067 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 61° and lows near 34°; warmest in August, with highs near 93° and lows near 55°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Campo Asos weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Diego County
- University of California-San DiegoUniversity or college18,717
- County of San DiegoSocial service agency18,392
- San Diego UnifiedSchool district11,195FTE
- Ucsd Medical CenterGeneral hospital10,244FTE
- National UniversityUniversity or college5,052
- illuminaBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in the medical sciences4,687
- National UniversityColleges, universities, and professional schools4,649
- San Diego State UniversityUniversity or college4,229
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2,263 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 408,395 people in all across the county; Jacumba has none 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
- WildfireVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jacumba’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 San Diego County and the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro.
Jacumba home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jacumba$341,437
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Jacumba address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jacumba — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.