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Home appreciation in Santa Maria, CA

Over the five years ending 2025, home prices in Santa Maria, CA grew an average of 9.2% a year.

Price growth at a glance

1-year

+2.9%

2025 over 2024. California: +1.9%.

5-year, per year

+9.2%

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

10-year, per year

+6.5%

+88.1% in total since 2015. California: +6.3%.

How does your home compare?

Santa Maria, CA home prices rose 88.1% over the ten years to 2025, while its ZIP codes ranged from +68.5% to +120.7%. Look up your home to see where it ranks among the homes around it.

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How Santa Maria, CA compares with California

California averaged +7.2% a year, so Santa Maria, CA grew faster than the state overall. For five-year price growth, Santa Maria, CA ranks 197th out of 409 metros nationwide and 2nd out of 28 in California.

Index, 2005 = 100

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA and California, quarterly house price index rebased to 100 in 2005.
YearSanta Maria-Santa Barbara, CACalifornia
2005 Q1100100
2005 Q2105106
2005 Q3107111
2005 Q4112116
2006 Q1111119
2006 Q2110120
2006 Q3111120
2006 Q4108119
2007 Q1105118
2007 Q2101116
2007 Q396111
2007 Q491107
2008 Q187101
2008 Q28293
2008 Q37785
2008 Q47583
2009 Q17582
2009 Q27278
2009 Q37076
2009 Q47077
2010 Q16876
2010 Q26876
2010 Q36876
2010 Q46875
2011 Q16573
2011 Q26371
2011 Q36372
2011 Q46272
2012 Q16271
2012 Q26171
2012 Q36373
2012 Q46474
2013 Q16576
2013 Q26879
2013 Q37183
2013 Q47486
2014 Q17488
2014 Q27790
2014 Q37892
2014 Q48093
2015 Q18094
2015 Q28296
2015 Q38598
2015 Q486100
2016 Q186101
2016 Q287103
2016 Q388105
2016 Q490106
2017 Q189107
2017 Q290110
2017 Q392112
2017 Q493113
2018 Q194115
2018 Q295118
2018 Q395119
2018 Q496119
2019 Q196120
2019 Q296121
2019 Q398122
2019 Q498123
2020 Q199124
2020 Q2100126
2020 Q3101127
2020 Q4102130
2021 Q1105133
2021 Q2112141
2021 Q3118149
2021 Q4121155
2022 Q1130161
2022 Q2136171
2022 Q3136170
2022 Q4136165
2023 Q1136164
2023 Q2140168
2023 Q3144170
2023 Q4145170
2024 Q1151173
2024 Q2150176
2024 Q3154177
2024 Q4152178
2025 Q1153178
2025 Q2157179
2025 Q3160179
2025 Q4155180
2026 Q1160181
2026 Q2160181

Chart through 2026 Q2. Annual growth figures through 2025.

Growth was stronger over the last five years than over the full decade: +6.5% a year over ten years, +88.1% in total.

Over this history, home prices peaked in 2006, fell 43.4% to its 2012 low, and regained the 2006 level in 2021.

The strongest year was 2022 at +17.9%, and the weakest was 2008 at -18.4%.

In 2025 alone the index moved +2.9%, against +1.9% for the state.

ZIP codes in Santa Maria, CA

Over the ten years to 2025, the 10 ZIP codes FHFA measures in this metro ranged from +68.5% in 93463 to +120.7% in 93458, while the metro as a whole rose 88.1%.

Fastest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 93458+120.7%
  2. 93434+115.3%
  3. 93436+108.0%
  4. 93454+102.8%
  5. 93455+91.1%

Slowest-rising ZIP codes

10-year change

  1. 93463+68.5%
  2. 93427+73.7%
  3. 93101+80.6%
  4. 93117+87.6%
  5. 93460+90.8%
ZIP codes in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, 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.
93458+10.2%+10.9%+8.2%+120.7%
93434-2.0%+9.7%+8.0%+115.3%
93436+5.6%+9.2%+7.6%+108.0%
93454+2.0%+9.4%+7.3%+102.8%
93455+4.7%+8.8%+6.7%+91.1%
93460+9.7%+11.3%+6.7%+90.8%
93117+4.4%+10.0%+6.5%+87.6%
93101-5.5%+8.7%+6.1%+80.6%
93427-3.8%+8.5%+5.7%+73.7%
93463-6.2%+7.8%+5.4%+68.5%

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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, 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
2006103.8+3.8%110.2
200792.5-10.9%104.3
200875.5-18.4%83.4
200967.6-10.3%72.2
201064.4-4.7%70.0
201159.8-7.1%66.4
201258.8-1.8%66.5
201365.4+11.3%74.7
201473.0+11.7%83.6
201578.4+7.3%89.5
201682.9+5.8%95.9
201786.0+3.7%102.1
201889.4+4.0%108.8
201991.5+2.4%112.3
202094.8+3.6%117.1
2021107.5+13.4%133.5
2022126.7+17.9%153.8
2023133.5+5.4%155.3
2024143.2+7.2%162.4
2025147.4+2.9%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