San Jacinto, California.
Typical home $482,066 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,366 (+4.1%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,403 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,985 +1%
- $478,080$482,066 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,386 +17%
- $412,680$482,066 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.
- San Jacinto$2,530
- 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 San Jacinto, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in San Jacinto, CA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in San Jacinto runs $993/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,240 in May 2024.
That is $3,360 a month against $2,366 rent: a $2,530 mortgage payment, plus $313 property tax and $516 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — San Jacinto
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$3,360
- Renting$2,366
- Mortgage only$2,530
Property tax · $313/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Riverside County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $516/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 San Jacinto, Riverside County, California
San Jacinto is a city of 53,898 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $80,647 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% are rented. Unemployment in San Jacinto was 6.5% 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. San Jacinto is a city where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where residents are younger than in many American towns. Incomes run below those across Riverside County, and a good number of households live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and typical home values and rents are high compared with what many local households earn.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in the building trades and in manufacturing. Among the larger workplaces in town are San Jacinto Unified, Walmart and Edelbrock Group. Commutes are long, and unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, while jobs across the county have grown only slightly.
Things to do. Diamond Valley Lake, a reservoir, and the Hemet Maze Stone, a protected area, are both a short drive away, and Potrero Creek runs in or beside town. For a longer outing, Lake Perris is a lake and San Bernardino National Forest is a protected area, each a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and the year is fairly dry.
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- 14,598households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 40 mintypical commute
- 10%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 39°; warmest in August, with highs near 96° and lows near 64°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Jacinto weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Jacinto
- San Jacinto UnifiedSchool district1,120FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters518
- Kool RunningsExpress delivery services308
- Edelbrock GroupAluminum foundries228
- Skyline HomesManufacture of homes171
- San Jacinto Valley Academy DistrictSchool district148FTE
- Cool RunningsGeneral freight trucking, local104
- Class Leasing,LLCAddition, alteration and renovation for-sale builders, commercial and institutional building35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,477 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
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in San Jacinto’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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
San Jacinto home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- San Jacinto$482,066
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 San Jacinto listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 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.
- San Jacinto24.56%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- San Jacinto22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- San Jacinto143
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- San Jacinto46
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- San Jacinto$484,378
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- San Jacinto100.45%
Zip codes with a San Jacinto address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls San Jacinto — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in San Jacinto
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92583 | San Jacinto | 33,778 | $2,303 | $450,385 |
| 92582 | San Jacinto | 23,356 | — | $514,994 |