Wildomar, California.
Typical home $649,009 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,710 (+4.1%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,849 (+119%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,943 +1%
- $644,066$649,009 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $80,980 +14%
- $568,029$649,009 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.
- Wildomar$3,406
- 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 Wildomar, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Wildomar, CA rose 4.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Wildomar runs $1,813/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,099 in Oct 2023.
That is $4,523 a month against $2,710 rent: a $3,406 mortgage payment, plus $422 property tax and $695 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Wildomar
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$4,523
- Renting$2,710
- Mortgage only$3,406
Property tax · $422/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Riverside County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $695/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 Wildomar, Riverside County, California
Wildomar is a city of 36,875 people in Riverside County. Half its households earn more than $103,506 a year and half less, against $93,074 across Riverside County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 78% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 22% are rented. Unemployment in Wildomar was 5.7% in August 2026, and Riverside County had 0.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents 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. Wildomar is a city in Riverside County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across the county. Typical home values and rents are high, and a four-year degree is held by a smaller part of the adult population than many might expect. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get very hot, especially in August; the year is dry, with only a modest amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, the building trades, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good number. Some of the largest workplaces in Wildomar are Southwest Healthcare System, a general hospital, Southern California Edison, a utility company, and Albertsons, a supermarket. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Lake Elsinore, a lake, and Canyon Lake, a reservoir, are both a short drive away, and the Orange Empire Railway Museum is also close by. For a longer outing, Riverside International Raceway, a race track, is a longer drive away.
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- 10,760households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 38 mintypical commute
- 14%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Riverside County had 846,070 jobs in 2025, 0.7% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 65° and lows near 40°; warmest in August, with highs near 98° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Elsinore weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Wildomar
- Southwest Healthcare SystemGeneral hospital1,399FTE
- Southern California EdisonUtility company287
- KB Home _ Inland Empire Division OfficeResidential for-sale builders141
- AlbertsonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores88
- ProWest ConstructorsAddition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building75
- FCPWarehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing50
- Sycamore Academy of Science and Cultural Arts DistrictSchool district44FTE
- WildomarMail and parcel delivery35
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,489 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wildomar’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 Riverside County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Wildomar home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wildomar$649,009
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wildomar listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 days — 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.
- Wildomar26.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Wildomar20
- United States21
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wildomar91
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wildomar27
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Wildomar$626,239
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Wildomar100.24%
Zip codes with a Wildomar address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wildomar — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.