Marshall, California.
Typical home $1,550,653 (+8.5% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,064 (+60%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $120,850 +8%
- $1,429,803$1,550,653 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $168,375 -10%
- $1,719,028$1,550,653 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.
- Marshall$8,139
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Marshall, CA rose 8.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Marshall, Marin County, California
The Census does not count Marshall on its own, so the figures here are Marin County's. Half the county's households earn more than $149,091 a year and half less; 8% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 65% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. 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 Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Marshall sits on the shore of Tomales Bay in western Marin County, north of San Francisco. Winters are cool and wet, with little or no snow, and the warmest weather comes in early autumn. The area has its own quiet rhythm, shaped by the water and the hills around it.
Work. Across Marin County, most adults hold a university degree, and many people work from home. Residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, while the number of jobs has dipped a little.
Things to do. Tomales Bay State Park is in or beside town, so it is the easiest outing for a walk along the water. Point Reyes National Seashore, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers coastline and open land. Muir Woods National Monument, another protected area, is a longer drive away and is known for its tall redwood trees.
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- 103,018households
- 47.4median age
- 61%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 32%work from home
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, 16 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. 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
- Coastal floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Marin County, 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.
Marshall home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Marshall$1,550,653
- 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.
Zip codes with a Marshall address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Marshall — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.