Stockton housing market: home prices, trends and forecast
Stockton home prices: as of September 2026 the Zillow Home Value Index valued a typical home in Stockton, California at $422,451, which sits −1.7% lower than a year earlier and −8.2% under the July 2022 peak of $460,077.
- Value of a typical home
- $422,451September 2026, Zillow ZHVI
- Change over 12 months
- −1.7%. Measured since September 2025.
Stockton home prices since 2000
Stockton is the steel line; the United States is the grey line. From January 2000 onward, the typical Stockton home has moved from $123,563 to $422,451, ×3.42, while the US over the same months was ×2.99. During the boom, prices peaked in August 2006 at $371,440; the low followed in January 2012 at $119,102, −67.9%.
Median home price by year in Stockton
A year averages out its twelve monthly values, except that for 2026 only the latest month counts.
| Year | Stockton | Change on the year | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $128,259 | $125,745 | |
| 2001 | $155,917 | +21.6% | $134,899 |
| 2002 | $183,185 | +17.5% | $144,276 |
| 2003 | $208,829 | +14.0% | $155,308 |
| 2004 | $248,122 | +18.8% | $169,891 |
| 2005 | $323,018 | +30.2% | $189,732 |
| 2006 | $366,281 | +13.4% | $206,531 |
| 2007 | $327,996 | −10.5% | $208,449 |
| 2008 | $204,686 | −37.6% | $195,574 |
| 2009 | $133,034 | −35.0% | $177,542 |
| 2010 | $132,936 | −0.1% | $171,462 |
| 2011 | $125,542 | −5.6% | $162,508 |
| 2012 | $123,886 | −1.3% | $161,137 |
| 2013 | $149,888 | +21.0% | $171,420 |
| 2014 | $186,497 | +24.4% | $182,996 |
| 2015 | $207,408 | +11.2% | $192,738 |
| 2016 | $233,317 | +12.5% | $204,509 |
| 2017 | $262,905 | +12.7% | $216,767 |
| 2018 | $294,348 | +12.0% | $230,541 |
| 2019 | $311,330 | +5.8% | $242,088 |
| 2020 | $329,410 | +5.8% | $257,151 |
| 2021 | $393,667 | +19.5% | $295,959 |
| 2022 | $446,457 | +13.4% | $340,014 |
| 2023 | $430,877 | −3.5% | $348,160 |
| 2024 | $443,025 | +2.8% | $359,751 |
| 2025 | $435,692 | −1.7% | $362,959 |
| September 2026 | $422,451 | −1.7% | $366,157 |
What a home bought in Stockton in any year is worth today
This is an index-based estimate of a typical home; it is not an appraisal.
Each year averages its twelve monthly index values; the current value is September 2026. More options: the home appreciation calculator.
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Stockton housing market forecast
In the Stockton, CA metro, Zillow's forecast shows −0.7% for the 12 months from September 2026, plus −0.3% for the three months that come next. Put that on Stockton's typical value of $422,451 and it lands near $419,500 a year on.
That figure comes from Zillow's central estimate for the metro, which is restated here; this site publishes no forecast of its own. Forecasts like this one over 12 months have typically landed several percentage points away from the realised change, in both directions. This is not investment advice.
All metro forecasts in one table: housing market forecast.
Stockton housing market crash risk score
61 out of 100, high
Five conditions that ran high before earlier price falls are used to rank Stockton among the 292 cities. Every input is scored from 0 to 100 compared with the other cities, and the five scores are 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 | −3.5% | 37 | 20% |
| Days on the market vs 2019 | +15.2% | 71 | 20% |
| Price-to-rent ratio | 17.3 | 45 | 20% |
| Price-to-income ratio | 5.4 | 64 | 20% |
| 12-month price change | −1.7% | 87 | 20% |
Nothing here is investment advice. Scoring of the inputs: methodology. The ranking of all 292 cities: crash risk by city.
Days on market and inventory in Stockton
In September 2026 the Stockton, CA metro counted 1,415 homes for sale, −1.3% versus a year earlier and −3.5% versus the same month of 2019. Selling took a median of 53 days per listing (+15.2% against 2019), and price cuts hit 23.3% of listings.
| Stockton, CA metro, September 2026 | Value | On a year |
|---|---|---|
| Active listings | 1,415 | −1.3% |
| New listings | 524 | |
| Median days on market | 53 | −4.5% |
| Median list price | $585,000 | −1.6% |
| Share with a price cut | 23.3% |
Metro inventory figures come from Realtor.com® Economic Research. Realtor.com data. All metros: days on market by city.
Living costs and rent in Stockton
By the Zillow Observed Rent Index, asking rents in Stockton typically run $2,032 a month, +1.7% on a year. The cost of a typical home comes to 17.3 years of that rent. With a median household income of $78,627 (Census ACS 2024), the typical home is worth 5.4 times a year's income. According to BEA, prices in the metro stand at 105.1 while the US average is 100, and housing costs are 115.6.
Other California housing markets
- Los Angeles at $927,891.
- San Diego at $980,490.
- San Jose at $1,353,869.
- San Francisco at $1,441,021.
- Fresno shows $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
Each point plots the Zillow Home Value Index for Stockton: it gives what a typical home in the market's middle third was worth, smoothed and seasonally adjusted, in that month's dollars. A hollow dot marks the month chosen on the slider, and the terracotta dot marks the latest month. No inflation adjustment applies to these figures. Because an index tracks the typical home, not one specific house, find the value of a single home from its own sale price with either the card above it or the appreciation calculator.