Murrieta, California.
Typical home $686,107 (+0.5% in a year), asking rent $2,650 (+2.5%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,965 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,200 +0%
- $682,906$686,107 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $87,191 +15%
- $598,915$686,107 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.
- Murrieta$3,601
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Murrieta, CA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Murrieta, CA rose 2.5% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Murrieta runs $2,131/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,391 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,782 a month against $2,650 rent: a $3,601 mortgage payment, plus $446 property tax and $735 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Murrieta
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$4,782
- Renting$2,650
- Mortgage only$3,601
Property tax · $446/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Riverside County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $735/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Murrieta, Riverside County, California
Murrieta is a city of 110,949 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $114,081 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 70% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 30% are rented. Unemployment in Murrieta was 5.3% in August 2026, and Riverside County had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Murrieta is a city in Riverside County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Residents are somewhat younger than in many American towns, and a four-year degree is held by a fair share of adults. Homes and rents here are on the costly side, and winters are mild, with summers that turn hot and little rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in professional and business services, with many also employed in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Some of the biggest workplaces in Murrieta are Murrieta Valley Unified, the school district, along with Llumc Murrieta and Rancho Springs Hospital. Commutes are long for many, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close by, Murrieta Creek and Skinner Reservoir are both a short drive away for time near the water. A longer drive brings you to Lake Elsinore, a lake, and Diamond Valley Lake, a reservoir. Cleveland National Forest, a protected area, is also a longer drive away for those who like to get outdoors.
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- 36,145households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 17%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Riverside County had 846,070 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in February, with highs near 67° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 62°. About 15 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fallbrook Northeast weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Murrieta
- Murrieta Valley UnifiedSchool district1,951FTE
- Llumc MurrietaGeneral hospital1,198FTE
- Rancho Springs HospitalGeneral medical and surgical hospitals711
- TargetDiscount department stores333
- CarMaxAutomotive dealers286
- WalmartDiscount department stores286
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters234
- Denso Products & Services Americas, Murrieta OperationsMotors, starter, for internal combustion engines, manufacturing220
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 47 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,628 people in all. 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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of MurrietaRelatively moderate
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of MurrietaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Murrieta’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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Murrieta home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Murrieta$686,107
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Murrieta listings, and the typical home goes pending in 29 days — 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.
- Murrieta30.54%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Murrieta29
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Murrieta530
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Murrieta149
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Murrieta$672,001
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Murrieta99.21%
Zip codes with a Murrieta address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Murrieta — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Murrieta
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92563 | Murrieta | 80,379 | $2,831 | $688,380 |
| 92562 | Murrieta | 64,781 | $2,535 | $682,664 |