Stevinson, California.
Typical home $643,728 (+2.0% in a year). Merced, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,796 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $12,673 +2%
- $631,054$643,728 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $79,528 +14%
- $564,199$643,728 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.
- Stevinson$3,379
- 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 Stevinson, CA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stevinson, Merced County, California
Stevinson, in Merced County, had 275 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Merced County was 8.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Merced County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stevinson is a very small farming community in Merced County, in California's Central Valley, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, since household incomes across Merced County sit modestly below those in much of the state. Jobs in the area have grown only slightly over the past year, and unemployment across the county has eased a little from a year earlier.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in farming, and in manufacturing. Across Merced County, some of the largest employers are the University of California-Merced, Mercy Medical Center Merced and Merced Union High Schools.
Things to do. Much of what draws people outdoors is a short drive away, including San Luis National Wildlife Refuge and Great Valley Grasslands State Park, both protected areas, and Los Baños Creek, a river. A longer drive brings you to the Castle Air Museum, a museum. Winters are cool and summers hot, with little rain or snow across the year.
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What people in Merced County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merced County had 85,663 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 54°. About 10 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Merced Wsw weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Merced County
- Merced CountyCommunity health programs administration2,176
- University of California-MercedUniversity or college1,863
- Merced Union High SchoolsSchool district1,108FTE
- Mercy Medical Center MercedGeneral hospital1,100FTE
- Merced City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,037FTE
- Hilmar Cheese CompanyDips, cheese based, manufacturing999
- Los Banos UnifiedSchool district985FTE
- Merced County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district952FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 147 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,213 people in all across the county; Stevinson has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Stevinson’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 Merced County and the Merced, CA metro.
Stevinson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stevinson$643,728
- 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 Stevinson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stevinson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.