Midpines, California.
Typical home $362,389 (+0.7% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$789 (+71%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,633 +1%
- $359,756$362,389 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $13,912 -4%
- $376,301$362,389 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.
- Midpines$1,902
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Midpines, CA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Midpines, Mariposa County, California
Midpines, in Mariposa County, had 379 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Mariposa County was 5.6% in August 2026, and the county had 0.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Mariposa County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Midpines is a very small community in Mariposa County, in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California. Homes here are valued above what is typical for the county's household incomes, which is worth knowing for anyone weighing a move or a sale. Winters are cold and summers are warm, and the year brings a good deal of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in government, and in the building trades. Across Mariposa County, some of the largest workplaces are the National Park Service, Mariposa County itself and Delaware North Companies, which runs hotels. Unemployment in the county is a little higher than a year ago, while the number of jobs has edged up slightly.
Things to do. Most of what draws visitors lies in Yosemite National Park, a longer drive away. Within it are Yosemite Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the country, and Glacier Point, a tourist attraction with wide views of the valley, both also a longer drive away. Closer to home, Stockton Creek is a river a short drive away.
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What people in Mariposa County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Mariposa County had 6,106 jobs in 2025, 0.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 42° and lows near 30°; warmest in August, with highs near 75° and lows near 59°. About 40 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yosemite Village West weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Mariposa County
- Mariposa CountyGeneral public administration676
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior619
- CAL FireCal fire600
- Delaware North CompaniesHotels except casino hotels and motels337
- AramarkHotels and motels323
- Mariposa County UnifiedSchool district225FTE
- John C. Fremont Healthcare DistrictCritical access hospital181FTE
- TavisPressure transducers manufacturing67
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,045 people in all across the county; Midpines has none of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- LandslidesVery high
- WildfireVery high
- LightningVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Midpines’ census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Mariposa County.
Midpines home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Midpines$362,389
- 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.
- Midpines6
Zip codes with a Midpines address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Midpines — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.