Mendocino, California.
Typical home $893,652 (+2.3% in a year). Ukiah, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,271 (+37%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,406 +2%
- $873,246$893,652 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $253,011 -22%
- $1,146,663$893,652 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.
- Mendocino$4,691
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Mendocino, CA rose 2.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mendocino, Mendocino County, California
Mendocino, in Mendocino County, had 932 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mendocino County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mendocino County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mendocino is a small coastal community, and its residents are considerably older than in most American towns. Homes here cost far more than in most places, and incomes are well above those across Mendocino County. Winters are cool and wet rather than cold, with little or no snow, and summers stay mild, so the coast rarely feels hot.
Work. Residents who work are most often in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and professional and business services. Across Mendocino County, the largest workplaces include Ukiah Unified, Adventist Health Ukiah Valley and Mendocino College. Unemployment across the county has run a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Mendocino Headlands State Park sits in or beside town, and Big River, also right alongside, is a river good for a quiet paddle or walk. A short drive away is Glass Beach, a beach known for its sea-smoothed glass. The Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, also a short drive off, offer a gentler outing among the coastal plantings.
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- 0%below the poverty line
What people in Mendocino County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mendocino County had 31,998 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 52° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 65° and lows near 50°. About 43 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fort Bragg North weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mendocino County
- Ukiah UnifiedSchool district680FTE
- Adventist Health Ukiah ValleyGeneral hospital567FTE
- CAL FireCal fire466
- Mendocino CollegeTwo-year college422
- Ahhm-one Marcela DR DeptsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals315
- Fort Bragg UnifiedSchool district245FTE
- Adventist Health Mendocino CoastCritical access hospital230FTE
- Howard Memorial HospitaCritical access hospital229FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 65 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,318 people in all across the county; Mendocino has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mendocino’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Mendocino County and the Ukiah, CA metro.
Mendocino home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mendocino$893,652
- 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.
- Mendocino16
Zip codes with a Mendocino address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mendocino — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.