Jamul, California.
Typical home $1,023,340 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $3,800 . San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,977 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,418 +2%
- $1,000,921$1,023,340 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $166,902 +19%
- $856,437$1,023,340 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.
- Jamul$5,371
- 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 Jamul, CA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Jamul, San Diego County, California
Jamul, in San Diego County, had 6,179 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $152,748 a year and half less, against $106,268 across San Diego County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Jamul is a community in San Diego County where nearly everyone lives in a home they own, and household incomes run well above the county's. Typical home values are high, and few residents live below the poverty line. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights and little or no snow, while summers turn hot by August, and the year brings little rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Jamul are Steele Canyon High District, Noah Homes and the Jamul-Dulzura Union Elementary Schools. Commutes are on the long side, though a fair number of people work from home, and the county's job market has been roughly level lately.
Things to do. For a day out, San Diego Zoo and Balboa Park are the best known nearby places, each a longer drive away. Balboa Park is a large city park with museums set among its gardens. For something more outdoors, Cabrillo National Monument is a protected coastal area, also a longer drive from town.
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- 2,073households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
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 68° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the El Cajon weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jamul
- Steele Canyon High DistrictSchool district194FTE
- Noah HomesHomes with or without health care, intellectual and developmental disability135
- Jamul-Dulzura Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district73FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 135 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Jamul’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 San Diego County and the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro.
Jamul home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Jamul$1,023,340
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Jamul 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.
- Jamul28.40%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Jamul27
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Jamul5
Zip codes with a Jamul address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Jamul — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.