Trona, California.
Typical home $64,494 (-3.1% in a year). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$102 (+43%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,094 -3%
- $66,588$64,494 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $22,664 -26%
- $87,158$64,494 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.
- Trona$339
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Trona, CA fell 3.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Trona, San Bernardino County, California
Trona, in San Bernardino County, had 11 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in San Bernardino County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in San Bernardino County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Trona is a very small community in San Bernardino County, set in the Mojave Desert of southeastern California, where people tend to know one another. Summers are very hot and winters are mild, with little or no snow and only light rain over the year. The dry, open landscape makes the climate much drier than in most of the country.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in shops. Others find work in transport, warehouses and utilities, or in professional and business services.
Things to do. Searles Lake, a lake, is a short drive away, and Great Falls Basin Wilderness, a protected area, is also a short drive off. Trona Pinnacles, another protected area, is a longer drive away, as is the Naval Museum of Armament & Technology, a museum.
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What people in San Bernardino County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Bernardino County had 848,961 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 60° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 107° and lows near 74°. About 4 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Trona weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Bernardino County
- Yaamava Resort and Casino at San ManuelResort hotels with casinos7,449
- San Bernardino City UnifiedSchool district5,915FTE
- Loma Linda University Medical CenterGeneral hospital5,689FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services4,060
- Empire Workforce SolutionsEmployment agencies3,850
- Fontana UnifiedSchool district3,692FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,599
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,541
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1,624 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 285,165 people in all across the county; Trona has none of its own. School districts come 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Trona’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 Bernardino County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Trona home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Trona$64,494
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Trona 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.
- Trona16.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Trona31
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Trona address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Trona — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.