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Housing in Catheys Valley

A typical Catheys Valley home is worth about $488,000

About the same as a year ago, 36% below the California typical home.

Typical home value
$488K
▲ 0% in a year · CA $764K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,400
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,884
CA $5,124

What kind of housing town is Catheys Valley?

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

★ What stands out · The homes

100% of Catheys Valley households own their home

Half of Catheys Valley’s homes were built before 1982.

Owners and renters
Own 100%

California: 56% own.

1982
typical home built · CA 1976
$2,884
median property tax bill · CA $5,124
0.72%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · CA 0.70%

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

Affordability

A typical home costs 6 years of income

Less than across California (7.7 years). Try your own numbers below.

You could afford about
$323,000
Typical Catheys Valley home $488K

That’s $164K short of a typical Catheys Valley home.

The typical home, each month
$2,850
Loan $2,410Tax $290Insurance $140

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,400 a month here, $1,450 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Catheys Valley’s typical property tax (0.72% 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

Down 13.6% in five years

Slower than California (13.9%).

Catheys ValleyCalifornia
$300K$400K$500K$600K$700K$800K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryCatheys ValleyCalifornia
2017$383,000$453,000
2018$412,000$501,000
2019$434,000$539,000
2020$450,000$551,000
2021$497,000$607,000
2022$577,000$703,000
2023$535,000$727,000
2024$509,000$758,000
2025$497,000$782,000
2026$491,000$767,000
August 2026$488,000$764,000
Then & now

A typical Catheys Valley home worth $374K in September 2016 is worth about $488K today.

+$114K
+0%
past year
−13.6%
past 5 years
+30.5%
since 2016

Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.

Renting

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,400

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$980
1 bedroom$1,110
2 bedrooms$1,400
3 bedrooms$1,950
4 bedrooms$2,350
0%
of households rent · CA 44%

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Mariposa 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, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. 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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