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The median home value in Bear Valley, CA is $448,785, up 0.35% from a year earlier.
City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.
Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.
Median Home Value
$448,785
Year-over-Year
+0.35%
Population
5,467
The typical home value decreased by 2.8%, from $461,486 in May 2026 to $448,785 in Sep 2026.
Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $461,486 | -1.0% |
| Jun 2026 | $460,242 | -1.0% |
| Jul 2026 | $460,882 | -0.6% |
| Aug 2026 | $452,341 | +0.1% |
| Sep 2026 | $448,785 | +0.3% |
Bear Valley ranks #317 of 395 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 40.6% below the state's city median of $754,898. It sits in Alpine County, where the county-wide median is $508,465.
Bear Valley police recorded a violent crime rate of 165 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 256 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Bear Valley, that value is $448,785. That's up 0.35% from a year earlier. It is about 40.6% below the typical California city tracked here.
Homes in Bear Valley are cheaper than Alpine County as a whole, where the median is $508,465 — a difference of about 11.7%.
Bear Valley police reported 165 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 5,467. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.