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The median home value in El Cerrito, CA is $1,149,856 as of 2026-07-31, up 1.53% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$1,149,856
Year-over-Year
+1.53%
Population
25,424
El Cerrito ranks #97 of 396 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 50.2% above the state's city median of $765,555. It sits in Contra Costa County, where the county-wide median is $781,899.
El Cerrito police recorded a violent crime rate of 480 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — higher than most cities that report to the FBI. Property crime runs at 3,044 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 El Cerrito, that value is $1,149,856. That's up 1.53% from a year earlier. It is about 50.2% above the typical California city tracked here.
Homes in El Cerrito are more expensive than Contra Costa County as a whole, where the median is $781,899 — a difference of about 47.1%.
El Cerrito police reported 480 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 25,424. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.