Vallejo, California.
Typical home $517,277 (-2.2% in a year), asking rent $2,200 (+2.8%). Vallejo, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,139 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $11,566 -2%
- $528,844$517,277 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $15,356 -3%
- $532,633$517,277 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.
- Vallejo$2,715
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in Vallejo, CA fell 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Vallejo, CA rose 2.8% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Vallejo runs $1,391/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,961 in Oct 2023.
That is $3,591 a month against $2,200 rent: a $2,715 mortgage payment, plus $322 property tax and $554 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Vallejo
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$3,591
- Renting$2,200
- Mortgage only$2,715
Property tax · $322/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Solano County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $554/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 Vallejo, Solano County, California
Vallejo is a city of 126,090 people in Solano County. Half its households earn more than $90,171 a year and half less, against $100,401 across Solano County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Vallejo was 6.0% in August 2026, and Solano County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Vallejo is a city in Solano County, home to a good many people, and larger than most towns in the area. Its residents are somewhat older than in many places, and household incomes run below the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though renting is common too, and a typical home costs well above what many longtime owners paid. Winters are mild and fairly cool, with January the coldest month, and summers warm without being extreme, peaking in September. Rain is modest through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, retail and manufacturing close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Vallejo are Vallejo Hospital Tower, Kaiser Permanente and Vallejo City Unified. Commutes tend to be long, which fits the number of people who travel out of town for work, and some residents work from home. Unemployment has eased a little over the past year, and the county has added jobs at a slow pace.
Things to do. The closest of the well-known places are a longer drive away. Golden Gate Park is a large public garden in San Francisco, and the California Academy of Sciences is an aquarium and science museum just beside it. Sonoma Raceway is a race track for those who like motor racing, and it also sits a longer drive from town.
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- 44,798households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Solano County had 144,004 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 42°; warmest in September, with highs near 86° and lows near 56°. About 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Vallejo weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Vallejo
- Vallejo Hospital TowerGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,809
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,782
- Vallejo City UnifiedSchool district1,073FTE
- Arctic Slope RegionalBridge painting596
- Sutter Solano Medical CenterGeneral hospital455FTE
- Crestwood Behavioral Health354
- Harbinger ProductionHouses, prefabricated mobile homes, manufacturing300
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer280
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 48 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,424 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Vallejo’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 Solano County and the Vallejo, CA metro.
Vallejo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Vallejo$517,277
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Vallejo listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Vallejo24.90%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Vallejo19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Vallejo335
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Vallejo108
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Vallejo$520,894
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Vallejo125.47%
Zip codes with a Vallejo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Vallejo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Vallejo
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94591 | Vallejo | 58,193 | $2,319 | $583,862 |
| 94590 | Vallejo | 37,128 | $2,055 | $460,385 |
| 94589 | Vallejo | 29,990 | $2,500 | $494,819 |
| 94592 | Vallejo | 1,049 | — | $707,916 |