Piru, California.
Typical home $514,848 (+1.7% in a year). Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,273 (+89%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,767 +2%
- $506,081$514,848 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,907 +12%
- $457,942$514,848 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.
- Piru$2,702
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Piru, CA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Piru, Ventura County, California
Piru, in Ventura County, had 2,587 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $89,375 a year and half less, against $109,797 across Ventura County. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Piru is a small community in Ventura County, with a younger population than many places and household incomes below the county's. Homes here are priced well above what most people would call modest, though the town's incomes run lower than across the county as a whole. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and the town has long been shaped by work on the land and in the trades.
Work. People in Piru work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, in manufacturing and in shops. The commute is a long one, and only a small share of residents work from home. Among the largest workplaces across Ventura County are Amgen, the pharmaceutical maker, and Amazon, which runs a warehousing operation. Jobs across the county have held roughly steady, with unemployment a little lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Piru Creek runs in or beside town, and Lake Piru, a reservoir, is a short drive away, which makes the water the easiest outing close to home. Winters are mild and almost snow-free, and summers turn hot, so the lake is at its best in the warmer months. A longer drive reaches Six Flags Magic Mountain, an amusement park, and the Getty Center, a museum.
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- 591households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 34 mintypical commute
- 10%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 62° and lows near 44°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 64°. About 17 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newhall 5NW weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Ventura County
- Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, CA)Pharmaceutical preparations manufacturing5,033
- Amgen Remote WorkersPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing4,146
- Amgen USA (Sales - Flex workers)Durable goods agents and brokers, wholesale trade3,050
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,852
- Compass Family EnterprisesCompanion services for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities2,572
- Ventura County Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,284FTE
- City of OxnardExecutive offices, federal, state, and local2,018
- CMH of San BuenaventuraGeneral hospital1,749FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 628 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 98,498 people in all across the county; Piru has none of its own. Hospitals come 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
- WildfireVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Piru’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 Ventura County and the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro.
Piru home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Piru$514,848
- 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.
Zip codes with a Piru address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Piru — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.