Yucca Valley, California.
Typical home $353,973 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $1,827 (+0.9%). Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,060 (+133%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,569 -0%
- $355,542$353,973 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $20,193 +6%
- $333,780$353,973 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.
- Yucca Valley$1,858
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 59 years.
Typical home values in Yucca Valley, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Yucca Valley, CA rose 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Yucca Valley runs $616/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,044 in Nov 2022.
That is $2,444 a month against $1,827 rent: a $1,858 mortgage payment, plus $207 property tax and $379 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Yucca Valley
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$2,444
- Renting$1,827
- Mortgage only$1,858
Property tax · $207/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for San Bernardino County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $379/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 Yucca Valley, San Bernardino County, California
Yucca Valley is a town of 21,738 people in San Bernardino County. Half its households earn more than $59,563 a year and half less, against $85,478 across San Bernardino County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% 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 residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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. Yucca Valley is a high-desert town where most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run well below the county's. The typical resident is of middle age, and only a minority of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool, with a little snow now and then, and summers are hot and dry, with rain and melted snow adding up to very little over a year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, the building trades, professional and business services, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in town are Walmart, Indian Canyon Post Acute and Vons. Commutes are fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Desert Christ Park, a museum site, sits in or beside town, as does Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve, a protected area. Pioneertown Mountains Preserve, another protected area, is a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is a longer drive away.
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- 9,038households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 January, with highs near 58° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 66°. About 2 inches of snow and 6 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Yucca Valley weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Yucca Valley
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters371
- Indian Canyon Post AcuteNursing homes137
- Student Transportation of America48541095
- Joshua Tree Post AcuteNursing homes80
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores77
- Southern California EdisonUtility company46
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services45
- Yucca ValleyMail and parcel delivery40
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 949 people in all. 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
- Wildfirerelatively high in parts of Yucca ValleyRelatively moderate
- LandslidesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Yucca Valley’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.
Yucca Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Yucca Valley$353,973
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Yucca Valley listings, and the typical home goes pending in 45 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.
- Yucca Valley27.12%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Yucca Valley45
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Yucca Valley280
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Yucca Valley55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Yucca Valley$370,314
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Yucca Valley97.18%
Zip codes with a Yucca Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Yucca Valley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Yucca Valley
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92284 | Yucca Valley | 25,415 | $1,823 | $353,209 |
| 92268 | Pioneertown | 434 | — | $543,645 |