Perris, California.
Typical home $542,448 (+1.3% in a year), asking rent $2,846 (+4.7%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,582 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,078 +1%
- $535,370$542,448 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,411 +19%
- $454,037$542,448 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.
- Perris$2,847
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Perris, CA rose 1.3% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Perris, CA rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Perris runs $935/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,289 in May 2024.
That is $3,781 a month against $2,846 rent: a $2,847 mortgage payment, plus $353 property tax and $581 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Perris
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$3,781
- Renting$2,846
- Mortgage only$2,847
Property tax · $353/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Riverside County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $581/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 Perris, Riverside County, California
Perris is a city of 78,700 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $88,911 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Perris was 6.0% 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. Perris is a city in Riverside County with a young population, and its residents are on average younger than people across much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run a little below the county's. Winters are mild and summers are hot and dry, with little or no snow and rain that is light for most of the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades, and in transport, warehouses and utilities. Among the largest workplaces in Perris are Val Verde Unified, Perris Union High Schools and Amazon. Commutes tend to be long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Orange Empire Railway Museum is in or beside town, as is Motte Rimrock Reserve, a protected area for walking. Lake Perris is a short drive away for time on the water, and the California Theatre of the Performing Arts is also a short drive away for an evening out.
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- 19,447households
- 12%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 6%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 65° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elsinore weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Perris
- Val Verde UnifiedSchool district1,926FTE
- CAL FireCal fire1,533
- Perris Union High SchoolsSchool district1,196FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage774
- Perris Elementary SchoolsSchool district499FTE
- GXO Logistics Supply ChainGeneral warehousing and storage497
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters463
- Silver creek modularBuildings, mobile, commercial use, manufacturing293
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 45 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,955 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of PerrisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Perris’ 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.
Perris home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Perris$542,448
- 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 Perris listings, and the typical home goes pending in 25 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.
- Perris21.58%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Perris25
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Perris185
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Perris56
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Perris$544,542
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Perris100.32%
Zip codes with a Perris address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Perris — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Perris
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92571 | Perris | 60,096 | $2,932 | $527,874 |
| 92570 | Perris | 58,082 | $2,012 | $580,265 |