A typical Tomales home is worth about $1,089,000
Up 6.2% in a year, 43% above the California typical home.
What kind of housing town is Tomales?
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Down 9.4% in five years
Slower than California (13.9%).
Show as a table
| January | Tomales | California |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $886,000 | $453,000 |
| 2018 | $971,000 | $501,000 |
| 2019 | $965,000 | $539,000 |
| 2020 | $987,000 | $551,000 |
| 2021 | $1,070,000 | $607,000 |
| 2022 | $1,198,000 | $703,000 |
| 2023 | $1,148,000 | $727,000 |
| 2024 | $1,109,000 | $758,000 |
| 2025 | $1,077,000 | $782,000 |
| 2026 | $1,065,000 | $767,000 |
| August 2026 | $1,089,000 | $764,000 |
A typical Tomales home worth $871K in September 2016 is worth about $1.09M today.
Zillow Home Value Index: the typical value of all homes (middle third), smoothed and seasonally adjusted, through August 2026.
What it takes to buy in Tomales
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That’s $692K short of a typical Tomales home.
A two-bedroom rents for about $3,480 a month here, $2,860 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.
A two-bedroom rents for about $3,480
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (San Francisco, CA HUD Metro FMR Area): 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 Tomales
Listed in the past 60 days. Each opens on the listing site.
Neighbors talk housing
What Tomales buyers, sellers and renters are saying.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.