Stinson Beach, California.
Typical home $3,576,820 (+12.7% in a year). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$10,552 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $404,295 +13%
- $3,172,526$3,576,820 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $338,341 +10%
- $3,238,479$3,576,820 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.
- Stinson Beach$18,774
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 35 years.
Typical home values in Stinson Beach, CA rose 12.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Stinson Beach, Marin County, California
Stinson Beach, in Marin County, had 541 people in the 2020 census. 96% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 4% 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 people in Marin County work in professional services, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Stinson Beach is a very small community on the Marin County coast, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. Homes are valued far above what is typical across the country, and household incomes in Marin County are high. Winters are mild and wet, with little or no snow, and summers are warm without being hot, with rain and melted snow adding up to a good deal over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in banks, insurance and property. Across Marin County, some of the largest workplaces are MarinHealth Medical Center, BioMarin Pharmaceutical and Novato Unified. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than it was a year earlier, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to San Francisco, where Golden Gate Park is a large garden and the California Academy of Sciences is an aquarium and museum. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is also a longer drive away.
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What people in Marin County 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, 7 miles 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; Stinson Beach has none 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- TsunamisRelatively 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 Stinson Beach’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 Marin County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Stinson Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Stinson Beach$3,576,820
- 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.
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Zip codes with a Stinson Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Stinson Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.