Shandon, California.
Typical home $508,176 (+0.3% in a year). San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,371 (+106%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,703 +0%
- $506,473$508,176 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $81,310 +19%
- $426,867$508,176 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.
- Shandon$2,667
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Shandon, CA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Shandon, San Luis Obispo County, California
Shandon, in San Luis Obispo County, had 1,168 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $107,273 a year and half less, against $97,446 across San Luis Obispo County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 94% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 6% are rented. Unemployment in San Luis Obispo County was 4.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.3% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Luis Obispo County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Shandon is a small community in San Luis Obispo County where nearly everyone owns the home they live in, and the population is young for a place its size. Household incomes run above the county's, and very few residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in professional and business services, and in shops. Across San Luis Obispo County, some of the largest workplaces are California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, DSH-Atascadero and Lucia Mar Unified. A small number of people work from home, and unemployment across the county has edged down over the past year.
Things to do. San Juan Creek runs in or beside town, and Camatta Creek is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Mission San Miguel Arcángel, a museum, and to the Leaning Pine Arboretum, a botanical garden. Winters are cool and summers hot, with little or no snow and fairly little rain through the year.
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- 8%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%work from home
What people in San Luis Obispo County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Luis Obispo County had 121,634 jobs in 2025, 0.3% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 60° and lows near 33°; warmest in August, with highs near 94° and lows near 53°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Paso Robles Municipal Airport weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Luis Obispo County
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis ObispoUniversity or college2,969
- Pearce ServicesElectric contracting2,648
- DSH-AtascaderoHospitals, psychiatric1,828
- California Men's Colony - San Luis ObispoCorrectional institutions1,199
- Lucia Mar UnifiedSchool district1,076FTE
- San Luis Coastal UnifiedSchool district855FTE
- Paso Robles Joint UnifiedSchool district716FTE
- City of San Luis ObispoExecutive offices, federal, state, and local657
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 249 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 29,630 people in all across the county; Shandon has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and school districts 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
- DroughtVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively 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 Shandon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 San Luis Obispo County and the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro.
Shandon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Shandon$508,176
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Shandon9
Zip codes with a Shandon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Shandon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.