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Housing in Garberville

A typical Garberville home is worth about $324,000

Down 8.7% in a year, 58% below the California typical home.

Typical home value
$324K
▼ 8.7% in a year · CA $764K
Zillow
2-bedroom rent
$1,650
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$2,481
CA $5,124

What kind of housing town is Garberville?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 8.2 years of income

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

You could afford about
$162,000
Typical Garberville home $324K

That’s $162K short of a typical Garberville home.

The typical home, each month
$1,870
Loan $1,600Tax $170Insurance $90

A two-bedroom rents for about $1,650 a month here, $220 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Garberville’s typical property tax (0.64% 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 46.9% in five years

Slower than California (13.9%).

GarbervilleCalifornia
$300K$400K$500K$600K$700K$800K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryGarbervilleCalifornia
2017$520,000$453,000
2018$563,000$501,000
2019$575,000$539,000
2020$589,000$551,000
2021$585,000$607,000
2022$629,000$703,000
2023$550,000$727,000
2024$463,000$758,000
2025$400,000$782,000
2026$347,000$767,000
August 2026$324,000$764,000
Then & now

A typical Garberville home worth $495K in September 2016 is worth about $324K today.

−$172K
−8.7%
past year
−46.9%
past 5 years
−34.6%
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 $1,650

Renters already here pay a median of $1,293, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,180
1 bedroom$1,260
2 bedrooms$1,650
3 bedrooms$2,290
4 bedrooms$2,770
46%
of households rent · CA 44%
237
renter households
68%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · CA 55%
50%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom
$1,293
median rent paid today · Census

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

The homes

54% of Garberville households own their home

Half of Garberville’s homes were built before 1973.

Owners and renters
Own 54%Rent 46%

California: 56% own.

1973
typical home built · CA 1976
$2,481
median property tax bill · CA $5,124
0.64%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · CA 0.70%

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.

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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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