Somis, California.
Typical home $1,556,464 (+2.4% in a year). Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,223 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $36,201 +2%
- $1,520,263$1,556,464 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $191,093 +14%
- $1,365,371$1,556,464 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.
- Somis$8,169
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 26 years.
Typical home values in Somis, CA rose 2.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Somis, Ventura County, California
Somis, in Ventura County, had 1,429 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $145,163 a year and half less, against $109,797 across Ventura County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 85% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 15% are rented. 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 people in Ventura County work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Somis is a small community in Ventura County, home to far fewer people than the larger towns around it. Households here earn more than across the county as a whole, and far fewer fall below the poverty line than you might expect. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and home values sit well above what is typical for much of the country. Winters are mild, with the coolest weather in February, and summers warm up gradually toward September. Rain is light across the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in shops and in manufacturing. A good number work from home. Across Ventura County, some of the largest workplaces are Amgen Inc., a pharmaceutical maker, Amazon, and the Ventura County Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, though the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. Close by, Arroyo Conejo Open Space and Wildwood Regional Park are protected areas a short drive away, good for walks and time outdoors. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, a museum, and to Six Flags Magic Mountain, an amusement park.
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- 469households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 17%work from home
What people in Ventura County 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 February, with highs near 68° and lows near 46°; warmest in September, with highs near 80° and lows near 59°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Camarillo Airport weather station, 6 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; Somis has two 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of SomisRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Somis’ 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.
Somis home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Somis$1,556,464
- 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.
- Somis11
Zip codes with a Somis address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Somis — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.