Tiburon, California.
Typical home $3,117,225 (+9.3% in a year), asking rent $6,832 (+31.4%). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$8,079 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $266,240 +9%
- $2,850,984$3,117,225 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $325,747 +12%
- $2,791,478$3,117,225 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.
- Tiburon$16,362
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Tiburon, CA rose 9.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Tiburon, CA rose 31.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Tiburon runs $14,590/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $21,422 a month against $6,832 rent: a $16,362 mortgage payment, plus $1,724 property tax and $3,337 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Tiburon
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$21,422
- Renting$6,832
- Mortgage only$16,362
Property tax · $1,724/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Marin County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $3,337/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 Tiburon, Marin County, California
Tiburon is a town of 9,146 people in Marin County. Half its households earn more than $232,969 a year and half less, against $149,091 across Marin County; 2% of its people live below the poverty line. 75% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 25% 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 residents 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. Tiburon is a small town on the Marin County shore, home to an older population than most places, with a median age well above what you would find across much of the country. Incomes are far higher than across the county, very few residents live below the poverty line, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Homes and rents are both costly, and nearly all adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm without being hot, September being the warmest. Snow is rare, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, or in the building trades. Reed Union Elementary Schools, Sams Anchor Cafe and Belvedere Tiburon are among the largest workplaces in town. A large share of residents work from home, and those who travel to work have a commute of moderate length. Unemployment across Marin County is a little lower than a year ago, though the county has slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. San Francisco is a short drive away, and its Golden Gate Park is a large garden with several museums nearby, including the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Muir Woods National Monument, a protected area of old redwoods, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the USS Hornet, a museum ship, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,510households
- 80%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 43%work from home
What residents 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 January, with highs near 58° and lows near 44°; warmest in September, with highs near 75° and lows near 56°. About 24 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Richmond weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tiburon
- Reed Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district133FTE
- Sams Anchor CafeRestaurants, full service98
- Belvedere TiburonMail and parcel delivery21
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 119 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of TiburonRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of TiburonRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tiburon’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Tiburon home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tiburon$3,117,225
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Tiburon listings — 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.
- Tiburon14.76%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Tiburon38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Tiburon18
Zip codes with a Tiburon address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tiburon — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Tiburon
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94920 | Belvedere Tiburon | 12,609 | $7,071 | $3,404,730 |