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Home appreciation in Salinas, CA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Salinas, CA grew an average of 6.6% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

-0.2%

2025 over 2024. California: +1.9%.

5-year, per year

+6.6%

Average annual growth, 2020 to 2025. California: +7.2%.

10-year, per year

+6.4%

+86.1% in total since 2015. California: +6.3%.

How does your home compare?

Salinas, CA home prices rose 86.1% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +51.3% to +139.0%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Salinas, CA compares with California

California averaged +7.2% a year, putting Salinas, CA behind the state overall. For five-year price growth, Salinas, CA ranks 368th out of 409 metros nationwide and 16th out of 28 in California.

Index, 2005 = 100

Salinas, CA and California, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearSalinas, CACalifornia
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2106106
2005 Q3111111
2005 Q4117116
2006 Q1118119
2006 Q2118120
2006 Q3115120
2006 Q4114119
2007 Q1112118
2007 Q2107116
2007 Q3101111
2007 Q496107
2008 Q189101
2008 Q27893
2008 Q36785
2008 Q46583
2009 Q16582
2009 Q26278
2009 Q35976
2009 Q45877
2010 Q15976
2010 Q25876
2010 Q35876
2010 Q45775
2011 Q15573
2011 Q25371
2011 Q35472
2011 Q45372
2012 Q15371
2012 Q25371
2012 Q35473
2012 Q45574
2013 Q15676
2013 Q25879
2013 Q36283
2013 Q46486
2014 Q16688
2014 Q26890
2014 Q37192
2014 Q47293
2015 Q17394
2015 Q27596
2015 Q37798
2015 Q478100
2016 Q180101
2016 Q281103
2016 Q383105
2016 Q485106
2017 Q186107
2017 Q288110
2017 Q389112
2017 Q489113
2018 Q191115
2018 Q293118
2018 Q395119
2018 Q495119
2019 Q196120
2019 Q297121
2019 Q398122
2019 Q499123
2020 Q1100124
2020 Q2101126
2020 Q3102127
2020 Q4105130
2021 Q1109133
2021 Q2115141
2021 Q3121149
2021 Q4125155
2022 Q1129161
2022 Q2137171
2022 Q3137170
2022 Q4131165
2023 Q1132164
2023 Q2138168
2023 Q3135170
2023 Q4136170
2024 Q1138173
2024 Q2141176
2024 Q3140177
2024 Q4145178
2025 Q1142178
2025 Q2143179
2025 Q3148179
2025 Q4131180
2026 Q1154181
2026 Q2147181

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Five-year and ten-year growth rates were similar, at +6.4% a year over ten years and +86.1% in total, suggesting a similar pattern over both periods.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2006, fell 53.9% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2006 level in 2021.

The strongest year was 2014 at +15.6%, and the weakest was 2008 at -28.3%.

In 2025 alone the index moved -0.2%, against +1.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Salinas, CA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 16 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +51.3% in 93924 to +139.0% in 93927, while the metro as a whole rose 86.1%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 93927+139.0%
  2. 93905+123.6%
  3. 95012+118.4%
  4. 93960+114.7%
  5. 93926+113.9%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 93924+51.3%
  2. 93908+67.9%
  3. 95004+74.3%
  4. 93901+80.6%
  5. 93940+81.6%
ZIP codes in Salinas, CA ranked by 10-year home-price change through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
93927+6.9%+9.2%+9.1%+139.0%
93905+4.9%+9.2%+8.4%+123.6%
95012+16.1%+7.6%+8.1%+118.4%
93960-1.8%+8.7%+7.9%+114.7%
93926+12.8%+8.2%+7.9%+113.9%
93906+4.4%+8.1%+7.4%+103.9%
939550.0%+6.9%+7.1%+98.2%
93930-1.8%+7.0%+7.0%+96.7%
93933+4.2%+6.7%+6.7%+91.2%
93907-4.3%+6.6%+6.5%+87.7%
93950+4.9%+8.0%+6.3%+84.5%
93940-2.2%+7.3%+6.1%+81.6%
93901-3.3%+6.3%+6.1%+80.6%
95004+1.4%+5.1%+5.7%+74.3%
93908-0.7%+6.2%+5.3%+67.9%
93924-17.3%+4.5%+4.2%+51.3%

What a home report shows

Enter an address and you get a score out of 10 for how the home ranks on appreciation potential against comparable homes in its market, with the nearby sales behind it. Here is one saved report.

Example report · saved October 14, 2026

165 N Canal St, Apt 1205, Chicago, IL 60606

Appreciation score

4.1 / 10

Around the median

Where it ranks

Ranks above about 41% of comparable homes in Chicago, IL for appreciation potential.

Price against nearby sales

Priced below most nearby sales, at $300 per square foot across 6 comparable sales.

Read the full example report

Year by year

Annual house price index for Salinas, CA and California, 2005 = 100 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
2005100.0—100.0
2006107.0+7.0%110.2
200796.0-10.3%104.3
200868.8-28.3%83.4
200956.2-18.3%72.2
201053.4-5.0%70.0
201149.5-7.2%66.4
201249.3-0.4%66.5
201355.3+12.1%74.7
201463.9+15.6%83.6
201569.7+9.1%89.5
201676.0+9.0%95.9
201781.4+7.2%102.1
201886.2+5.9%108.8
201990.0+4.4%112.3
202094.2+4.7%117.1
2021108.0+14.6%133.5
2022123.1+14.0%153.8
2023124.4+1.0%155.3
2024130.0+4.5%162.4
2025129.8-0.2%165.5

The 28 measured metros in California

Measured metros in California ranked by 5-year home-price appreciation through 2025 Column headers are buttons: click to sort, click again to reverse, and a third time to restore the original order.
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1El Centro, CA+7.7%+9.9%+7.8%
2Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA+2.9%+9.2%+6.5%
3San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA+1.9%+9.1%+7.3%
4Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA (metropolitan division)+4.5%+9.0%+6.6%
5Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA+2.1%+9.0%+7.5%
6Visalia, CA+4.3%+9.0%+7.3%
7Bakersfield-Delano, CA+3.5%+8.8%+6.6%
8Hanford-Corcoran, CA+5.2%+8.6%+7.2%
9Fresno, CA+3.1%+8.4%+7.2%
10San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA+3.1%+8.0%+6.3%
11Merced, CA+1.5%+7.9%+7.5%
12Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA (metropolitan division)+2.8%+7.5%+6.6%
13Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA+3.0%+7.5%+5.9%
14Modesto, CA+1.5%+7.1%+7.1%
15Stockton-Lodi, CA+0.6%+6.9%+6.9%
16Salinas, CA-0.2%+6.6%+6.4%
17Yuba City, CA+0.9%+6.5%+7.2%
18Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA+1.3%+6.4%+6.4%
19San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA+0.7%+6.1%+5.1%
20Redding, CA+0.8%+5.7%+5.4%
21Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA+0.5%+5.4%+4.9%
22Vallejo, CA0.0%+5.3%+5.9%
23Napa, CA+1.0%+5.2%+5.2%
24Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley, CA (metropolitan division)-0.1%+4.7%+5.2%
25Chico, CA+2.1%+4.6%+6.0%
26Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA+0.8%+4.6%+4.9%
27San Rafael, CA (metropolitan division)+0.8%+4.5%+3.6%
28San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA (metropolitan division)+0.8%+3.5%+3.7%

Source & method: Metro figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index for metropolitan statistical areas and metropolitan divisions, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. State figures: FHFA quarterly all-transactions index, annualized as the mean of the four quarterly (NSA) values. The chart uses quarterly readings, with each series set to 100 in the first quarter of 2005. ZIP figures: FHFA annual five-digit ZIP index (developmental), ZIPs with sufficient transaction history. Missing years are reported as missing by FHFA and are not estimated. Each ZIP is placed in the metro that holds the county with most of its housing units. “5-yr /yr” and “10-yr /yr” are compound annual growth over the window ending 2025; all figures are nominal. Data published by the FHFA House Price Index; this edition compiled 2026-10-17. Educational data, not investment advice.

See the California row in the state rankings, the county rankings, and, for why one metro number hides so much, why two homes in the same ZIP code appreciate differently.

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Measured FHFA data · chart through 2026 Q2