Ross, California.
Typical home $4,210,716 (+10.1% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$11,353 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $386,583 +10%
- $3,824,133$4,210,716 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $451,006 +12%
- $3,759,711$4,210,716 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.
- Ross$22,101
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Ross, CA rose 10.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Ross, Marin County, California
Ross is a town of 2,338 people in Marin County. 87% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 13% are rented. Unemployment in Marin County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then finance and property.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Ross is a small town in Marin County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and homes here are valued far above what is typical across the country. Residents tend to be older than in many places, and a very large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Poverty is uncommon, and winters are mild and wet, with little or no snow and summers that stay comfortably warm.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in banks, insurance and property, and in schools, hospitals and social care. Across Marin County, some of the largest workplaces are BioMarin Pharmaceutical, MarinHealth Medical Center and Novato Unified. Working from home is common here, and the typical commute is moderate for those who travel to a job. Unemployment across the county has eased only slightly over the past year, and the county has a few fewer jobs than it did a year earlier.
Things to do. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is a short drive away. Farther afield in San Francisco, Golden Gate Park is a large public garden and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is one of the city's best-known museums, both a longer drive away. The Presidio of San Francisco, also a longer drive away, offers more gardens and open ground.
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- 838households
- 83%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 48%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Marin County had 110,071 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 56° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 54°. About 44 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kentfield weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Marin County
- BioMarin PharmaceuticalPatent medicine preparations manufacturing2,086
- Marinhealth Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,429FTE
- Township Building ServicesJanitorial services1,257
- Ultragenyx - NovatoBiotechnology research and development laboratories or services in genetics691
- Novato UnifiedSchool district685FTE
- Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversity or college541
- College of MarinTwo-year college508
- KFH - San RafaelGeneral hospital489FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 152 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,838 people in all across the county; Ross has two of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Ross’ 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 Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Ross home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Ross$4,210,716
- 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 Ross address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Ross — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.