Mentone, California.
Typical home $515,080 (+0.0% in a year), asking rent $2,323 . Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,448 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18 +0%
- $515,062$515,080 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,348 +19%
- $433,732$515,080 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.
- Mentone$2,704
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Mentone, CA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mentone, San Bernardino County, California
Mentone, in San Bernardino County, had 9,557 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $74,708 a year and half less, against $85,478 across San Bernardino County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 68% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 32% are rented. Unemployment in San Bernardino County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mentone is a community at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, home to a modest number of people. Residents are younger than in many older-homeowner towns, and most households own the place they live in. Incomes sit below the county's, and typical home values are well above what many people expect. Winters are mild, with little or no snow and light, scattered rain, while summers turn hot, especially in August.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across San Bernardino County, some of the largest workplaces are San Bernardino City Unified, Loma Linda University Medical Center and UPS. Unemployment in the county has eased slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has grown a little. A typical commute is a fairly long one, and a modest share of people work from home.
Things to do. San Bernardino National Forest is a protected area a short drive away, with mountain trails and woods close to town. The Abraham Lincoln Shrine, a park, and Fort Benson are also a short drive away. Mill Creek runs in or beside town, and for a longer outing Big Bear Lake, a reservoir in the mountains, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,547households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Bernardino County had 848,961 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 66° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 63°. About 13 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Redlands weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Bernardino County
- Yaamava Resort and Casino at San ManuelResort hotels with casinos7,449
- San Bernardino City UnifiedSchool district5,915FTE
- Loma Linda University Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,689FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services4,060
- Empire Workforce SolutionsEmployment agencies3,850
- Fontana UnifiedSchool district3,692FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,599
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,541
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,624 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 285,165 people in all across the county; Mentone has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mentone’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 Bernardino County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Mentone home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mentone$515,080
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Mentone 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mentone18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Mentone5
Zip codes with a Mentone address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mentone — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.