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Housing in Shandon

A typical Shandon home is worth about $511,000

About the same as a year ago, 33% below the California typical home.

Typical home value
$511K
▲ 0.4% in a year · CA $764K
Zillow
Median sale price
$435K
May 2026 · Redfin
Homes sold
1
in May · 3 for sale
2-bedroom rent
$2,380
a month, utilities in · HUD
Median tax bill
$3,333
CA $5,124

Only 1 sale in May 2026: in a market this size, monthly medians swing a lot, so the typical value is the steadier guide.

What kind of housing town is Shandon?

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

★ What stands out · Affordability

A typical home costs 4.8 years of income

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

You could afford about
$426,000
Typical Shandon home $511K

That’s $85K short of a typical Shandon home.

The typical home, each month
$3,000
Loan $2,530Tax $320Insurance $150

A two-bedroom rents for about $2,380 a month here, $620 less than owning.

An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Shandon’s typical property tax (0.74% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.

The homes

94% of Shandon households own their home

Half of Shandon’s homes were built before 1989.

Owners and renters
Own 94%Rent 6%

California: 56% own.

1989
typical home built · CA 1976
$3,333
median property tax bill · CA $5,124
0.74%
of a home’s value, a year in tax · CA 0.70%
3%
of homes are seasonal or vacation homes

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

Price trend

Up 20% in five years

Faster than California (13.9%).

ShandonCalifornia
$200K$300K$400K$500K$600K$700K$800K20182020202220242026
Show as a table
JanuaryShandonCalifornia
2017$297,000$453,000
2018$326,000$501,000
2019$346,000$539,000
2020$357,000$551,000
2021$392,000$607,000
2022$450,000$703,000
2023$475,000$727,000
2024$499,000$758,000
2025$510,000$782,000
2026$510,000$767,000
August 2026$511,000$764,000
Then & now

A typical Shandon home worth $285K in September 2016 is worth about $511K today.

+$226K
+0.4%
past year
+20%
past 5 years
+79.3%
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 $2,380

Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included

Studio$1,900
1 bedroom$1,930
2 bedrooms$2,380
3 bedrooms$3,240
4 bedrooms$3,660
6%
of households rent · CA 44%
18
renter households
100%
of renters spend 30%+ of income on rent · CA 55%
27%
of the median income, for a two-bedroom

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

On the market in Shandon

Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.

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What Shandon buyers, sellers and renters are saying.

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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research, August 2026. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center, May 2026. 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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