Wrightwood, California.
Typical home $423,575 (-1.3% in a year), asking rent $2,125 . Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,069 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $5,772 -1%
- $429,347$423,575 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,244 +7%
- $394,331$423,575 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.
- Wrightwood$2,223
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 48 years.
Typical home values in Wrightwood, CA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Wrightwood, San Bernardino County, California
Wrightwood, in San Bernardino County, had 4,720 people in the 2020 census. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Wrightwood is a small mountain community where most homes are lived in by their owners, and a larger share of adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect for a town of its size. Winters are cold and snowy, with a good deal of snow each year, and summers are warm without being extreme. The typical commute is a long one, which fits a place set up in the hills and away from the main job centers.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, then transport, warehouses and utilities, and professional and business services. Across San Bernardino County, the largest workplaces include San Bernardino City Unified, Loma Linda University Medical Center and UPS. The county's job market has been close to flat, with unemployment a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Mountain High and Mount Baldy Ski Lifts, both ski areas, are a short drive away, which suits the snowy winters. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Angeles National Forest, a protected area of mountain trails and woodland. The California Botanic Garden is also a longer drive away for a quieter day out.
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- 2,246households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
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 48° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 83° and lows near 52°. About 62 inches of snow and 21 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wrightwood weather station, a mile 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; Wrightwood has one 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Wrightwood’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 San Bernardino County and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
Wrightwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Wrightwood$423,575
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Wrightwood 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.
- Wrightwood24.13%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Wrightwood80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Wrightwood17
Zip codes with a Wrightwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Wrightwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.