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Housing in Calpella

A typical Calpella home is worth roughly $581,000

Home prices around Calpella have risen about 16% over the past 5 years.

Typical home value
$581K
▼ 0.5% in a year · CA $764K
Estimate
2-bedroom rent
$1,740
a month, utilities in · HUD

What kind of housing town is Calpella?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Calpella households own their home

Half of Calpella’s homes were built before 1961.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

California: 56% own.

1961
typical home built · CA 1976

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 · figures for a place this size carry wide margins of error.

Affordability

What it takes to buy in Calpella

Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$397,000
Typical Calpella home $581K

That’s $184K short of a typical Calpella home.

The typical home, each month
$3,380
Loan $2,880Tax $340Insurance $170

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,740 a month here, $1,640 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, the California typical property tax (0.70% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

Price trend

Home prices up 16% in 5 years

The federal house price index for the ZIP codes around Calpella rose 16% over the past 5 years, slower than across California (40%). Last year prices fell 0.5%.

Calpella areaCalifornia
0%+50%+100%+150%+200%+250%200020052010201520202025
−0.5%
past year
+16%
past 5 years
+48%
past 10 years

Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index (annual) for the ZIP codes around Calpella, weighted by land area. It tracks repeat sales of the same homes, so it shows how prices changed, not what homes cost.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,740

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,290
1 bedroom$1,330
2 bedrooms$1,740
3 bedrooms$2,430
4 bedrooms$2,840
0%
of households rent · CA 44%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mendocino County, CA): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Price trend: Federal Housing Finance Agency House Price Index. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.

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