The median house price of residential real estate in California has increased notably since 2012. After a brief correction in property prices in 2022, the median price reached 756,200 U.S. dollars in December 2023.

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Mexico Average House Price: Baja California data was reported at 903,598.000 MXN in Mar 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 720,437.000 MXN for Dec 2018. Mexico Average House Price: Baja California data is updated quarterly, averaging 658,724.000 MXN from Dec 2014 (Median) to Mar 2019, with 18 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 903,598.000 MXN in Mar 2019 and a record low of 562,050.000 MXN in Dec 2014. Mexico Average House Price: Baja California data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Mortgage Society. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.EB005: Average House Price.

In October 2024, the median sales price of an existing single-family home in San Mateo, California was two million U.S. dollars. This was more than double the median sales price in the state of California. The most affordable county was Trinity, where an existing single family home sold for approximately 205,000 U.S. dollars.

All-Transactions House Price Index for California was 968.88000 Index 1980 Q1=100 in October of 2024, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, All-Transactions House Price Index for California reached a record high of 968.88000 in October of 2024 and a record low of 41.69000 in January of 1975. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for All-Transactions House Price Index for California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

United States House Price Index: FHFA: California data was reported at 655.910 Mar1980=100 in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 639.250 Mar1980=100 for Mar 2018. United States House Price Index: FHFA: California data is updated quarterly, averaging 227.460 Mar1980=100 from Mar 1975 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 174 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 655.910 Mar1980=100 in Jun 2018 and a record low of 41.630 Mar1980=100 in Mar 1975. United States House Price Index: FHFA: California data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Housing Finance Agency. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB014: House Price Index.

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In October 2024, the median sales price of an existing single-family home in Del Norte, California saw an increase of nearly 30 percent, compared to the 5.8 percent increase in the state. 20 counties saw prices fall during this period. In Trinity, the median sales price of single-family homes decreased by approximately 36 percent.

Existing single family homes in California have been selling faster than ever in the past year. As of March 2022, the median time between a new listing and a purchase in the major counties in California was below 15 days, whereas in August 2019, it was between 12 and 33 days. The robust demand for properties in California has led to substantial house price growth in almost all counties in California in the past year.

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Analysis of ‘California Housing Prices Data (5 new features!)’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/fedesoriano/california-housing-prices-data-extra-features on 28 January 2022.

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Context

This is the dataset is a modified version of the California Housing Data used in the paper Pace, R. Kelley, and Ronald Barry. "Sparse spatial autoregressions." Statistics & Probability Letters 33.3 (1997): 291-297.. It serves as an excellent introduction to implementing machine learning algorithms because it requires rudimentary data cleaning, has an easily understandable list of variables and sits at an optimal size between being too toyish and too cumbersome.

The data contains information from the 1990 California census. So although it may not help you with predicting current housing prices like the Zillow Zestimate dataset, it does provide an accessible introductory dataset for teaching people about the basics of machine learning.

Modifications with respect to the original data

This dataset includes 5 extra features defined by me: "Distance to coast", "Distance to Los Angeles", "Distance to San Diego", "Distance to San Jose", and "Distance to San Francisco". These extra features try to account for the distance to the nearest coast and the distance to the centre of the largest cities in California.

The distances were calculated using the Haversine formula with the Longitude and Latitude:

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where:

• phi_1 and phi_2 are the Latitudes of point 1 and point 2, respectively
• lambda_1 and lambda_2 are the Longitudes of point 1 and point 2, respectively
• r is the radius of the Earth (6371km)

Content

The data pertains to the houses found in a given California district and some summary stats about them based on the 1990 census data. The columns are as follows, their names are pretty self-explanatory:

1) Median House Value: Median house value for households within a block (measured in US Dollars) [$] 2) Median Income: Median income for households within a block of houses (measured in tens of thousands of US Dollars) [10k$] 3) Median Age: Median age of a house within a block; a lower number is a newer building [years] 4) Total Rooms: Total number of rooms within a block 5) Total Bedrooms: Total number of bedrooms within a block 6) Population: Total number of people residing within a block 7) Households: Total number of households, a group of people residing within a home unit, for a block 8) Latitude: A measure of how far north a house is; a higher value is farther north [°] 9) Longitude: A measure of how far west a house is; a higher value is farther west [°] 10) Distance to coast: Distance to the nearest coast point [m] 11) Distance to Los Angeles: Distance to the centre of Los Angeles [m] 12) Distance to San Diego: Distance to the centre of San Diego [m] 13) Distance to San Jose: Distance to the centre of San Jose [m] 14) Distance to San Francisco: Distance to the centre of San Francisco [m]

Source

This data was entirely modified and cleaned by me. The original data (without the distance features) was initially featured in the following paper: Pace, R. Kelley, and Ronald Barry. "Sparse spatial autoregressions." Statistics & Probability Letters 33.3 (1997): 291-297.

The original dataset can be found under the following link: https://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~ltorgo/Regression/cal_housing.html

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In October 2024, the median square footage sales price of a single-family home in the San Francisco Bay Area was approximately 752 U.S. dollars. Condos, on the other hand, sold for 686 U.S. dollars per square foot. The Far North was the most affordable region with sales price of 250 and 203 U.S. dollars for single family homes and condos, respectively.

Median Home Sale Price: All Residential: Chico, CA data was reported at 375.000 USD th in Jul 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 363.000 USD th for Jun 2020. Median Home Sale Price: All Residential: Chico, CA data is updated monthly, averaging 256.500 USD th from Feb 2012 (Median) to Jul 2020, with 102 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 375.000 USD th in Jul 2020 and a record low of 160.000 USD th in May 2012. Median Home Sale Price: All Residential: Chico, CA data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Redfin. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.EB056: Median Home Sale Price: by Metropolitan Areas.

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The median house price in 94027, Atherton, California, was about 8.3 million U.S. dollars. This made it the most expensive zip code in the United States in 2023. 11962 Sagaponack, N.Y., was the runner-up with a median house price of about 8.1 million U.S. dollars. Of the 10 most expensive zip codes in the United States in 2026, six were in California.

The median house prices in the most expensive zip codes in California reached as high as 8.3 million U.S dollars. Atherton (94027), had the most expensive median house price, followed by Santa Barbara (93108), and Beverly Hills (90210). Six of the ranked zip codes were among the top ten most expensive zip codes in the United States in 2023.

In 2022, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara were the most expensive districts for housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. In San Francisco, the average square footage price of single-family homes exceeded 1,000 U.S. dollars per square foot. Housing in Solano, on the other hand, was most affordable, with the average square footage price for single family homes at 370 U.S. dollars.

How expensive is buying a home in San Francisco? Few metros in the U.S. are more expensive than San Francisco, CA. In 2022, the median sales price of existing single-family homes in San Francisco was about 1.4 million U.S. dollars, making it the second priciest market in the U.S. House prices in the Golden City, were not always so high: in 2014, a two-bedroom house in the Bay Area would sell for less than 500,000 U.S. dollars but since then, the median price has more than doubled.

How much does renting an apartment cost? Despite rents falling in 2020, renting in San Francisco is still far from cheap. Renting a two-bedroom apartment cost close to 4,000 U.S. dollars in 2021. California is one of the least affordable states for renters. In fact, to afford to rent such an apartment, a household needs approximately three full time jobs at minimum wage or two full time jobs at mean wage.

Housing Inventory: Average Listing Price in California was 1487934.00000 U.S. $ in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Housing Inventory: Average Listing Price in California reached a record high of 1610501.00000 in May of 2023 and a record low of 915837.00000 in September of 2016. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Housing Inventory: Average Listing Price in California - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on May of 2025.

The median listing price in a given market during the specified month.

With the release of its September 2022 housing trends report, Realtor.com® incorporated a new and improved methodology for capturing and reporting housing inventory trends and metrics. The new methodology updates and improves the calculation of time on market and improves handling of duplicate listings. Most areas across the country will see minor changes with a smaller handful of areas seeing larger updates. As a result of these changes, the data released since October 2022 will not be directly comparable with previous data releases (files downloaded before October 2022) and Realtor.com® economics blog posts. However, future data releases, including historical data, will consistently apply the new methodology. More details are available at the source's Real Estate Data Library (https://www.realtor.com/research/data/).

With the release of its November 2021 housing trends report, Realtor.com® incorporated a new and improved methodology for capturing and reporting housing inventory trends and metrics. The new methodology uses the latest and most accurate data mapping of listing statuses to yield a cleaner and more consistent measurement of active listings at both the national and local level. The methodology has also been adjusted to better account for missing data in some fields including square footage. Most areas across the country will see minor changes with a smaller handful of areas seeing larger updates. As a result of these changes, the data released since December 2021 will not be directly comparable with previous data releases (files downloaded before December 2021) and Realtor.com® economics blog posts. However, future data releases, including historical data, will consistently apply the new methodology. More details are available at the source's Real Estate Data Library (https://www.realtor.com/research/data/).