Moss Landing, California.
Typical home $835,981 (+0.7% in a year). Salinas, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,077 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,616 +1%
- $830,365$835,981 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $34,437 +4%
- $801,544$835,981 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.
- Moss Landing$4,388
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 82 years.
Typical home values in Moss Landing, CA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Moss Landing, Monterey County, California
Moss Landing, in Monterey County, had 237 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Monterey County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Monterey County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Moss Landing is a very small community on Monterey Bay, home to far fewer people than most towns. Homes here are costly, and values run high compared with many parts of the country. Winters are mild and the summers cool; the coldest days stay well above freezing and snow is almost unknown, while rain falls mostly through the cooler months.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in restaurants and hotels, and in professional and business services. Across Monterey County, household incomes are above those in much of the country, and the county had slightly fewer jobs last year than the year before. Among the largest workplaces across the county are Foothill Packing, Taylor Fresh Foods and Community Hosp. Monterey Peninsula.
Things to do. Moss Landing State Beach and the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve both lie in or beside town, offering a stretch of shoreline and a protected area to explore. A longer drive brings you to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and 17-Mile Drive, a well-known tourist attraction, is a similar distance away.
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What people in Monterey County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monterey County had 198,525 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 62° and lows near 39°; warmest in September, with highs near 74° and lows near 53°. About 23 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Watsonville Wtr Wks weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Monterey County
- Foothill PackingAgriculture production or harvesting crews3,128
- Premier Packing of CaliforniaFarm labor contractors2,754
- PRO AG HarvestingFarm labor contractors2,687
- Taylor Fresh FoodsPacking fruits and vegetables2,619
- Community Hosp. Monterey PeninsulaGeneral hospital2,046FTE
- Dominguez FarmsFarm labor contractors2,042
- Camarillo Harvesting, LLC SalinasStrawberry farming2,000
- Tanimura & AntleVegetable and potato farming, vegetable dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production1,889
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 371 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 79,481 people in all across the county; Moss Landing has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively 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 Moss Landing’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 Monterey County and the Salinas, CA metro.
Moss Landing home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Moss Landing$835,981
- 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 Moss Landing address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Moss Landing — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.