Rohnert Park, California.
Typical home $706,845 (+0.9% in a year), asking rent $2,533 (+5.4%). Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,648 (+80%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,390 +1%
- $700,456$706,845 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,192 +9%
- $650,654$706,845 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.
- Rohnert Park$3,710
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Rohnert Park, CA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rohnert Park, CA rose 5.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rohnert Park runs $2,345/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,620 in Oct 2023.
That is $4,878 a month against $2,533 rent: a $3,710 mortgage payment, plus $411 property tax and $757 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rohnert Park
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$4,878
- Renting$2,533
- Mortgage only$3,710
Property tax · $411/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Sonoma County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $757/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 Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, California
Rohnert Park is a city of 44,390 people in Sonoma County. Half its households earn more than $99,273 a year and half less, against $104,674 across Sonoma County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Rohnert Park was 4.4% in August 2026, and Sonoma County had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Rohnert Park is a city in Sonoma County where the population skews fairly young compared with much of the country. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and homes are lived in by their owners and by renters in about equal measure. Winters are cool and mild, with little or no snow, and summers are warm, with September the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Rohnert Park are the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified school district, Costco Wholesale and Traditional Medicinals, a tea and herbal products maker. Jobs across Sonoma County slipped slightly last year, and a typical commute is a fairly short drive that most people take in well under an hour.
Things to do. A short drive away are Jack London State Historic Park and Trione-Annadel State Park, both protected areas with room to walk outdoors. The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is also a short drive away, and Shollenberger Park offers a quieter green space close by. For a longer outing, Point Reyes National Seashore is a protected stretch of coast a longer drive away.
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- 17,181households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 13%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sonoma County had 206,393 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 59° and lows near 38°; warmest in September, with highs near 84° and lows near 51°. About 32 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santa Rosa weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rohnert Park
- Cotati-Rohnert Park UnifiedSchool district552FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer303
- CVEToxic material abatement services300
- Traditional MedicinalsTea, herbal, manufacturing263
- North Bay Rehabilitation ServicesVocational rehabilitation job training facilities256
- WalmartDiscount department stores203
- TargetDiscount department stores185
- Reyff ElectricElectric contracting152
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 22 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,700 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rohnert Park’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 Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA metro.
Rohnert Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rohnert Park$706,845
- 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 4 Rohnert Park listings, and the typical home goes pending in 13 days — 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.
- Rohnert Park22.50%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Rohnert Park13
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rohnert Park71
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rohnert Park32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Rohnert Park$690,482
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Rohnert Park99.95%
Zip codes with a Rohnert Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rohnert Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.