Nicasio, California.
Typical home $1,805,591 (+4.9% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,724 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $84,318 +5%
- $1,721,272$1,805,591 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $99,879 +6%
- $1,705,711$1,805,591 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.
- Nicasio$9,477
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 61 years.
Typical home values in Nicasio, CA rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Nicasio, Marin County, California
Nicasio, in Marin County, had 81 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Marin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Marin County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Nicasio is a small community in West Marin, part of Marin County and north of the Golden Gate. It has far fewer residents than most places in the county, and it keeps a quiet, rural character among hills and open land. Many of its homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are very high.
Work. Residents work in a mix of fields, including professional and business services, schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and banking, insurance and property. Across Marin County, the number of jobs dipped slightly last year. Most working life here happens in nearby towns and in the wider Bay Area.
Things to do. Point Reyes National Seashore, a protected area, is a short drive away and offers coastline and open land. Muir Woods National Monument, also a protected area, is a longer drive away and is known for its tall redwood trees. Golden Gate Park, a garden in San Francisco, is a longer drive away.
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What people in Marin County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marin County had 110,071 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 43°; warmest in August, with highs near 81° and lows near 56°. About 34 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Rafael Civic Ctr weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marin County
- BioMarin PharmaceuticalPatent medicine preparations manufacturing2,086
- Marinhealth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,429FTE
- Township Building ServicesJanitorial services1,257
- Ultragenyx - NovatoBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in genetics691
- Novato UnifiedSchool district685FTE
- Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversity or college541
- College of MarinTwo-year college508
- KFH - San RafaelGeneral hospital489FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,838 people in all across the county; Nicasio has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- LandslidesVery high
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Coastal floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Nicasio’s 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 Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Nicasio home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Nicasio$1,805,591
- 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.
- Nicasio9
Zip codes with a Nicasio address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Nicasio — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.