Escondido housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Escondido home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index put the typical home in Escondido, California at $839,152 in September 2026, up 1.0% from a year earlier and down 2.5% from its $860,654 peak in January 2025.
- Typical value of a home
- $839,152September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- Up 1.0% since September 2025.
Escondido home prices since 2000
Escondido appears as the steel line, while the United States appears as the grey line. From January 2000, the typical Escondido home rose from $206,606 to $839,152, a ×4.06 increase compared with ×2.99 for the US over those months. The boom reached its high in June 2006 at $523,580, then fell to its low of $297,698 in January 2012, a −43.1% change.
Escondido homes: annual median price
Each year averages its twelve monthly values; for 2026, the figure shows the latest month.
| Year | Escondido | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $218,388 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $252,670 | +15.7% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $287,689 | +13.9% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $344,316 | +19.7% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $421,972 | +22.6% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $503,816 | +19.4% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $519,421 | +3.1% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $486,302 | −6.4% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $395,086 | −18.8% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $314,165 | −20.5% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $320,332 | +2.0% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $308,485 | −3.7% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $305,206 | −1.1% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $357,950 | +17.3% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $407,758 | +13.9% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $436,497 | +7.0% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $469,967 | +7.7% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $502,305 | +6.9% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $528,187 | +5.2% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $540,534 | +2.3% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $568,652 | +5.2% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $671,135 | +18.0% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $787,349 | +17.3% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $790,245 | +0.4% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $851,667 | +7.8% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $843,218 | −1.0% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $839,152 | +1.0% | $366,157 |
Current value of an Escondido home bought in any year
This estimate uses an index for a typical home rather than an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages its twelve monthly index values; the current value is September 2026. Other options include the home appreciation calculator.
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Escondido housing market forecast
For the San Diego, CA metro, Zillow's forecast puts the change at +0.9% across the 12 months beginning September 2026, and −0.4% across the next three months. With Escondido's typical value at $839,152, the forecast would put it close to $846,700 after a year.
The forecast shown here comes from Zillow's central estimate for the metro. This site does not publish any forecast of its own. Forecasts like this 12-month forecast have typically differed from the realized change by several percentage points in either direction. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts sit in one table: housing market forecast.
Escondido housing market crash risk score
High: 62 of 100
The score compares Escondido with 292 cities using five conditions that were high before earlier price falls. Each input is compared with the other cities on a scale from 0 to 100. The five scores then receive equal weight when averaged. The score shows current conditions and does not forecast a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −12.7% | 25 | 20% |
| Time on the market vs 2019 | +7.0% | 55 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 27.0 | 89 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 8.2 | 90 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | +1.0% | 49 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Learn how the inputs receive their scores through the scoring method. See how all 292 cities rank in the city crash risk list.
Escondido inventory and days on market
In September 2026 the San Diego, CA metro counted 5,749 homes available for sale, down 1.5% from a year earlier and down 12.7% from the same month in 2019. The median time to sell a listing was 46 days (+7.0% against 2019). Price cuts applied to 20.4% of listings.
| San Diego, CA metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 5,749 | −1.5% |
| New listings | 2,326 | |
| Median days on market | 46 | −6.2% |
| Median list price | $888,450 | −6.3% |
| Share with a price cut | 20.4% |
Metro inventory from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com figures. Days on market by city includes every metro.
Living costs and rent in Escondido
Escondido's typical asking rent is $2,590 per month under the Zillow Observed Rent Index, up 0.5% over a year. At that rent, the typical home costs the equivalent of 27.0 years of payments. At $102,145 (Census ACS 2024), median household income puts the typical home's value at 8.2 times annual income. BEA gives the metro a price index of 111.9, compared with 100 for the US, and a housing-cost index of 179.3.
Other California housing markets
- $927,891: Los Angeles.
- $980,490: San Diego.
- $1,353,869: San Jose.
- $1,441,021: San Francisco.
- $384,885: Fresno.
- $470,552: Sacramento.
- Long Beach $852,391
- $710,647: Oakland.
- $385,686: Bakersfield.
- $941,684: Anaheim.
Statewide figures: California housing market.
How to read the chart
Each point shows the Zillow Home Value Index for Escondido: the smoothed and seasonally adjusted value, in dollars for that month, of a typical home in the market's middle third. On the slider, the hollow dot identifies the selected month, while the terracotta dot shows the latest month. These figures are not adjusted for inflation. An index follows the typical home rather than any one house, so use the card above or the appreciation calculator to work out the value of a single home from its own sale price.