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Median Home Price in San Marcos, CA

The median home value in San Marcos, CA is $953,656, up 0.81% 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

$953,656

Year-over-Year

+0.81%

Population

93,974

Home value history

The typical home value decreased by 0.2%, from $955,477 in May 2026 to $953,656 in Sep 2026.

San Marcos, 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.

San Marcos, CA monthly home value history
MonthTypical home valueYear-over-year change
May 2026$955,477-1.5%
Jun 2026$957,606-1.1%
Jul 2026$953,736-0.4%
Aug 2026$958,381+0.3%
Sep 2026$953,656+0.8%

San Marcos ranks #131 of 395 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 26.3% above the state's city median of $754,898. It sits in San Diego County, where the county-wide median is $926,979.

Housing affordability in San Marcos

Median household income in San Marcos is $109,377, so the typical home value is about 8.7× 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 San Marcos

San Marcos police recorded a violent crime rate of 222 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 660 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 San Marcos

What is the average home price in San Marcos, 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 San Marcos, that value is $953,656. That's up 0.81% from a year earlier. It is about 26.3% above the typical California city tracked here.

Is San Marcos expensive compared to the surrounding area?

Homes in San Marcos are more expensive than San Diego County as a whole, where the median is $926,979 — a difference of about 2.9%.

Is San Marcos affordable?

Median household income here is $109,377, so the typical home value is about 8.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.

Is San Marcos a safe place to live?

San Marcos police reported 222 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 93,974. 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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