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The median home value in Lake Forest, CA is $1,199,098 as of 2026-06-30, down 0.74% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$1,199,098
Year-over-Year
-0.74%
Population
85,811
Lake Forest ranks #89 of 396 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 56.7% above the state's city median of $765,350. It sits in Orange County, where the county-wide median is $1,194,969.
Lake Forest police recorded a violent crime rate of 146 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 830 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
The median home value in Lake Forest is $1,199,098. That's down 0.74% from a year earlier. That is about 56.7% above the typical county in California.
Homes in Lake Forest are more expensive than Orange County as a whole, where the median is $1,194,969 — a difference of about 0.3%.
Lake Forest police reported 146 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 85,811. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.