Zip lookup · CA

92071
Santee, California.

Santee, San Diego County, CA · San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro · population 59,590

What it costs per month · 92071 $4,198/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,237 (+114%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $8,281 -1%
$808,054$799,773 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $120,629 +18%
$679,144$799,773 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.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 92071 $4,198 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 92071$4,198
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.

Typical home values in zip 92071 fell 1.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 92071 rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 92071 runs $2,651/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,102 in Jan 2025.

That is $5,504 a month against $2,853 rent: a $4,198 mortgage payment, plus $450 property tax and $856 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 92071

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $5,504 Renting $2,853 Mortgage only $4,198
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$5,504
  • Renting$2,853
  • Mortgage only$4,198

Property tax · $450/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Diego County, CA

Insurance & upkeep · $856/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Santee, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,853 as of Sep 2026
+3.1%year on year
Typical home value $799,773 as of Sep 2026
-1.0%year on year

Asking rent — 92071

Against the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 92071 $2,853 San Diego $2,967 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 92071$2,853
  • San Diego$2,967
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 92071

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 92071 $799,773 San Diego $926,961 United States $366,157
$200,000 $400,000 $600,000 $800,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 92071$799,773
  • San Diego$926,961
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 59 zips in range — sorting picks from all 59.

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3.6 92119 San Diego 24,456 $2,456 $967,965
4.1 92020 El Cajon 57,842 $2,124 $824,128
4.8 92131 San Diego 35,503 $3,589 $1,452,308
5.3 91942 La Mesa 41,424 $2,640 $806,501
5.5 92124 San Diego 30,474 $2,986 $1,042,605
5.9 92120 San Diego 31,915 $2,700 $1,021,265
6.3 91941 La Mesa 33,218 $2,545 $1,021,021
7.1 92021 El Cajon 70,501 $2,191 $771,788
7.3 92040 Lakeside 46,216 $2,384 $811,479
7.6 92115 San Diego 66,264 $3,293 $844,313
8.4 91945 Lemon Grove 27,745 $2,671 $757,486
8.6 92123 San Diego 33,041 $3,197 $944,353
8.7 92019 El Cajon 45,351 $2,748 $874,196
8.7 91977 Spring Valley 61,064 $2,425 $762,925
9.1 92064 Poway 48,683 $3,325 $1,209,487
9.5 92116 San Diego 31,843 $2,444 $984,779
9.6 92126 San Diego 76,059 $3,044 $979,735
9.6 92105 San Diego 71,411 $2,248 $683,243
10.0 92108 San Diego 26,790 $3,168 $581,197
10.1 91978 Spring Valley 10,014 $2,643 $829,209
10.5 92114 San Diego 65,745 $2,857 $737,487
10.6 92111 San Diego 45,249 $3,059 $934,294
10.8 92104 San Diego 47,410 $2,505 $939,312
10.9 92129 San Diego 52,965 $3,567 $1,322,444
11.1 92128 San Diego 48,992 $3,060 $985,813
11.7 92102 San Diego 38,901 $2,301 $743,045
12.0 92117 San Diego 52,275 $2,716 $1,074,166
12.2 91902 Bonita 17,698 $3,321 $1,143,759
12.2 92139 San Diego 34,703 $3,483 $732,235
12.3 92103 San Diego 34,836 $2,764 $1,063,156

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.