Norco, California.
Typical home $912,649 (+4.0% in a year), asking rent $3,285 . Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,728 (+132%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $34,844 +4%
- $877,805$912,649 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $201,600 +28%
- $711,049$912,649 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.
- Norco$4,790
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Norco, CA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Norco, Riverside County, California
Norco is a city of 26,316 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $127,566 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 81% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 19% are rented. Unemployment in Norco was 4.8% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Norco is a city in Riverside County where most homes are lived in by their owners, more so than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. The population is a little older than the typical American community, and winters are mild while summers turn hot and dry, with very little rain or snow through the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Norco are Corona-Norco Unified, the school district, Norco College, a two-year college, and Target. The typical commute is a long one, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Close to town, Lake Mathews is a reservoir a short drive away, and the Planes of Fame Air Museum is also a short drive off. Disneyland, the amusement park, lies a longer drive away, as does the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
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- 6,616households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 13%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 December, with highs near 69° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 63°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chino Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Norco
- Corona-Norco UnifiedSchool district4,333FTE
- Norco CollegeTwo-year college512
- TargetDiscount department stores190
- Winco FoodsStore123
- International E-Z UPAwnings and canopies, outdoor, made from purchased fabrics120
- Clima-TechRefrigeration system installation100
- Royal West DrywallHome builders, single-family75
- Cal West UndergroundUtility line, construction68
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 901 people in all. School districts come 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Norco’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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Norco home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Norco$912,649
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Norco listings, and the typical home goes pending in 34 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Norco33.59%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Norco71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Norco19
Zip codes with a Norco address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Norco — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.