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Median Home Price in Morro Bay, CA

The median home value in Morro Bay, CA is $935,118, up 1.36% from a year earlier.

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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

$935,118

Year-over-Year

+1.36%

Population

10,532

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 1.8%, from $952,480 in May 2026 to $935,118 in Sep 2026.

Morro Bay, CA typical home value from May 2026 to 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.

Morro Bay, CA monthly home value history
MonthTypical home valueYear-over-year change
May 2026$952,480-0.6%
Jun 2026$964,296-0.2%
Jul 2026$954,595+0.4%
Aug 2026$934,301+1.1%
Sep 2026$935,118+1.4%

Morro Bay ranks #133 of 395 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 23.9% above the state's city median of $754,898. It sits in San Luis Obispo County, where the county-wide median is $897,661.

Housing affordability in Morro Bay

Median household income in Morro Bay is $95,843, so the typical home value is about 9.8× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.

Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).

Crime in Morro Bay

Morro Bay police recorded a violent crime rate of 294 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 788 per 100,000.

Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).

Common questions about Morro Bay

What is the average home price in Morro Bay, CA?

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 Morro Bay, that value is $935,118. That's up 1.36% from a year earlier. It is about 23.9% above the typical California city tracked here.

Is Morro Bay expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in Morro Bay are more expensive than San Luis Obispo County as a whole, where the median is $897,661 — a difference of about 4.2%.

Is Morro Bay affordable?

Median household income here is $95,843, so the typical home value is about 9.8× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.

Is Morro Bay a safe place to live?

Morro Bay police reported 294 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 10,532. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.

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