Lagunitas, California.
Typical home $929,716 (+6.8% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,124 (+77%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $59,357 +7%
- $870,359$929,716 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,858 +2%
- $909,858$929,716 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.
- Lagunitas$4,880
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Lagunitas, CA rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lagunitas, Marin County, California
Lagunitas, in Marin County, had 1,924 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $130,682 a year and half less, against $149,091 across Marin County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lagunitas is a small community in Marin County, home to fewer people than most towns that appear in a list like this. Household incomes run below the county's, and homes here are still costly by national standards. Winters are cool and mild rather than harsh, summers are warm without being hot, and snow is rare. Rain is the main feature of the year.
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, some of the largest workplaces are BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Marinhealth Medical Center and Novato Unified. The typical commute is a long one, and the job count across the county slipped a little last year, with unemployment slightly lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Alamere Falls, a waterfall, is a short drive away, and Point Reyes National Seashore, a protected coastal area, is a longer drive. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is also a longer drive. For a day in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park is a garden of the kind that fills a whole afternoon, though it too is a longer drive away.
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- 4%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
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 57° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Rafael Civic Ctr weather station, 8 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; Lagunitas 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lagunitas’ 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.
Lagunitas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lagunitas$929,716
- 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 Lagunitas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lagunitas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.