Ojai, California.
Typical home $1,155,262 (+2.1% in a year), asking rent $3,747 . Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,307 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $23,233 +2%
- $1,132,029$1,155,262 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $170,499 +17%
- $984,764$1,155,262 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.
- Ojai$6,064
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Ojai, CA rose 2.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ojai, Ventura County, California
Ojai is a city of 7,637 people in Ventura County. Half its households earn more than $82,656 a year and half less, against $109,797 across Ventura County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Ventura County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% fewer 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ojai is a small city where residents are older than in most places, and incomes run below the county's, though homes here cost a great deal and rents are high. A majority of households own their homes, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool nights in December, summers turn hot by August, snow is rare, and the rainfall is modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Ojai are Ojai Unified, Ojai Valley Community Hospital and Vons. Commutes are fairly short, and many people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Casitas is a reservoir a short drive away, and Matilija Creek, a creek in the hills, is also close by. Farther afield, Emma Wood State Beach offers a stretch of coast, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is a museum a longer drive away.
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- 3,150households
- 48%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 27%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Ventura County had 335,864 jobs in 2025, 0.1% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 65° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 54°. About 21 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Ojai weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ojai
- Ojai UnifiedSchool district264FTE
- Ojai Valley Community HospitalCritical access hospital115FTE
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores93
- Rainbow BridgeGrocery stores62
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture42
- OjaiMail and parcel delivery25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 464 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- WildfireVery high
- EarthquakesVery 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 Ojai’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 Ventura County and the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro.
Ojai home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ojai$1,155,262
- 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 5 Ojai listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Ojai20.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Ojai94
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Ojai20
Zip codes with a Ojai address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ojai — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.