Santa Ana housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Santa Ana home prices: the Zillow Home Value Index put a typical home in Santa Ana, California at $858,641 in September 2026, +3.7% higher than a year before and at its highest month on record.
- Value of a typical home
- $858,641September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- Up 3.7% since September 2025.
Santa Ana home prices since 2000
Santa Ana is the steel line, the United States the grey line. Between January 2000 and now, the typical Santa Ana home climbed from $162,593 to $858,641, ×5.28, versus ×2.99 for the US across those months. The boom peaked in March 2007 at $519,876, while the low was $261,193 in May 2012, a 49.8% drop.
Santa Ana annual median home price
Each yearly figure averages twelve monthly values; 2026 displays the latest month.
| Year | Santa Ana | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $173,667 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $200,154 | +15.3% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $231,933 | +15.9% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $279,820 | +20.6% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $360,811 | +28.9% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $446,501 | +23.7% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $509,468 | +14.1% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $502,658 | −1.3% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $384,065 | −23.6% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $282,730 | −26.4% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $281,411 | −0.5% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $271,891 | −3.4% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $270,000 | −0.7% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $327,784 | +21.4% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $377,267 | +15.1% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $401,051 | +6.3% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $421,400 | +5.1% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $470,596 | +11.7% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $526,667 | +11.9% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $537,641 | +2.1% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $574,917 | +6.9% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $648,812 | +12.9% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $733,406 | +13.0% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $746,312 | +1.8% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $817,563 | +9.5% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $836,490 | +2.3% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $858,641 | +3.7% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Santa Ana in any year is worth today
This is an index-based estimate of a typical home, not an appraisal.
Each year's figure averages twelve monthly index values; the value today is September 2026. Other options: home appreciation calculator.
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Santa Ana housing market forecast
For the metro of Los Angeles, CA, Zillow's forecast shows −1.0% over the next three months and +1.9% over the 12 months beginning September 2026. That points to about $875,000 for Santa Ana's typical $858,641 value one year from now.
Zillow's central estimate for the metro is restated here; the site itself puts out no forecast. Forecasts of this kind over 12 months have typically landed several percentage points away from the change that actually happened, in both directions. Nothing here is investment advice.
All metro forecasts in one table: housing market forecast.
Santa Ana housing market crash risk score
High, at 60 of 100.
Against the 292 cities, the score ranks Santa Ana on five conditions that were high before earlier price falls. Each input is scored from 0 to 100 relative to the other cities; the five places are then averaged with equal weight. It shows conditions as they are now; it does not predict a crash.
| Input | Value | Sub-score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Active listings vs 2019 | −2.1% | 43 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | +10.0% | 63 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 25.4 | 86 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 9.0 | 94 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | +3.7% | 14 | 20% |
This is not investment advice. Scoring method for the inputs: methodology. Every one of the 292 cities, ranked: crash risk by city.
Santa Ana inventory and days on market
For September 2026 the Los Angeles, CA metro recorded 20,130 homes for sale, +4.2% more than a year earlier and −2.1% fewer than in the same month of 2019. The median time to sell a listing was 55 days (+10.0% against 2019), and a price cut appeared in 17.1% of listings.
| Los Angeles, CA metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 20,130 | +4.2% |
| New listings | 7,762 | |
| Median days on market | 55 | −3.5% |
| Median list price | $1,034,500 | −5.9% |
| Share with a price cut | 17.1% |
Metro inventory data: Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. All metros: days on market by city.
Santa Ana rent and living costs
In Santa Ana, asking rent typically runs $2,820 a month, +2.0% on a year, according to the Zillow Observed Rent Index. A typical home equals 25.4 years of that rent. A median household income of $95,118 (Census ACS 2024) puts the typical home at 9.0 times what a household earns in a year. BEA has metro prices at 113.6, compared with a US average of 100, and puts housing costs at 170.4.
Housing markets elsewhere in California
- $927,891 for Los Angeles.
- $980,490 for San Diego.
- $1,353,869 for San Jose.
- $1,441,021 for San Francisco.
- Fresno at $384,885.
- Sacramento at $470,552.
- Long Beach $852,391
- Oakland at $710,647.
- Bakersfield at $385,686.
- Anaheim at $941,684.
For the state as a whole: California housing market.
How to read this chart
A point on the chart marks the Zillow Home Value Index for Santa Ana, which values a typical home in the market's middle third, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, in dollars of that month. The hollow dot marks whichever month the slider is set to, and the terracotta dot marks the most recent month. These numbers do not account for inflation, and the index tracks a typical home rather than any one property. Use the card above or the home appreciation calculator to estimate a single home's value from its sale price.