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San Bernardino County, CA

FIPS 06071 · population 2,197,104 · part of Riverside, CA

$554k
Zillow home value · 2026-06
Direct county rent answer

What does rent cost in San Bernardino County, CA?

The latest county-level Zillow ZORI is $2,489 per month in 2026-06. It is a typical asking-rent index across rental types—not an arithmetic average, signed lease or quote for one property.

County Zillow ZORI$2,4892026-06 · up 2.4% year over year
County ACS gross rent$1,801ACS 2024 5-year · occupied-renter survey
HUD two-bedroom FMR$2,201FY2026 · administrative standard
HUD Fair Market Rent by bedroom count in San Bernardino County
BedroomsHUD monthly FMRGeographyMeasurement boundary
Studio$1,692San Bernardino County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
1 bedroom$1,777San Bernardino County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
2 bedrooms$2,201San Bernardino County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
3 bedrooms$2,912San Bernardino County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.
4 bedrooms$3,514San Bernardino County, CAHUD administrative benchmark; compare with same-bedroom listings, never treat it as observed asking rent.

Zillow asking rent, ACS gross rent and HUD FMR describe different housing universes. They remain separate and no metro, city or neighboring-county value replaces missing county evidence.Zillow pulled 2026-07-26 · HUD pulled 2026-07-26

The numbers

What this county costs and earns

Everything here joins on the county FIPS code, so each figure comes from the agency that publishes it with no name matching in between.

Zillow home value
$554k
▼ 0.1% year over year
Zillow ZHVI · direct
Median asking rent
$2,489
▲ 2.4% year over year
Zillow ZORI · direct
Gross yield
5.4%
annual rent ÷ price, before costs
derived: rent × 12 ÷ price ✓
HUD 2-bed standard
$2,201
market rent is 1.13x the standard
HUD Fair Market Rent · direct
Independent price check

Do two methods point the same way?

Zillow estimates a current home value. FHFA tracks repeat mortgage transactions. Their growth rates should be read side by side, not averaged.

The annual signals disagree
FHFA five-year cumulative+52.2%not annualized · through 2025
0%ZILLOW ZHVI2026-06−0.1%FHFA HPI2025+1.2%
Annual changes use different methods and may use different periods. The comparison checks direction and magnitude; it does not create a blended estimate. Zillow county ZHVI pulled 2026-07-26; FHFA annual county HPI pulled 2026-08-02.
Owner-reported value$505k
Surveyed gross rent$1,801
Rent burden 30%+58.5%
Median year built1983
Housing composition

Who occupies the stock—and what it is

ACS 2024 5-year
9.3%vacant
743,886estimated housing units
Occupied tenure37.9% renter
owner 62.1%renter 37.9%
Structure mix74.7% single-family
Single-family 74.7%20+ units 7.9%Mobile home 5.4%Other 12.0%
ACS estimates describe the standing housing stock and occupied tenure. They do not measure current listings, transaction prices or asking rents.

Survey source: Census ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stock · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30. These values describe different housing universes and are not combined into gross yield.

Annual average covered jobs848,862▲ 0.3% from the prior annual release
Covered establishments82,730annual average reporting locations
Average weekly wage$1,226▲ 2.3% from the prior annual release
Largest private supersectorTrade, transportation, and utilities35.0% of disclosed private covered jobs
Local labor base

Jobs, pay and private-sector concentration

2025
0%COVERED JOBS+0.3%WEEKLY WAGE+2.3%Trade, transportation, and utilities35.0%
Annual QCEW counts cover jobs located at reporting establishments. The industry share uses disclosed private covered employment; it is not a resident-employment measure or a forecast.

Workplace source: BLS QCEW — county employment and wages · annual county employment and wages 2021-2025; latest 2025 vs 2024 · pulled 2026-08-02. QCEW counts covered jobs located in the county, not employed residents or the metro score’s CES/LAUS series.

Resident income

How local income has compounded

BEA per-capita personal income divides all personal income by the county population. It is broader than wages, but it is not household income or a measure of what renters can afford.

Per-capita personal income19692024
Per-capita personal income history for San Bernardino CountyA line chart of annual BEA per-capita personal income from 1969 through 2024.$0k$30k$60k196919972024$4k$54k
Nominal annual dollars; not adjusted for inflation. A rising line can reflect wage, business-income, transfer-income and investment-income changes together.
Renter affordability

Who carries the heaviest rent burden

HUD CHAS separates renter households by income relative to local HAMFI. Moderate burden means housing costs above 30% through 50% of income; severe burden means more than 50%.

Share of renter households in each income band2018-2022
Renter cost burden by HAMFI income band in San Bernardino CountyFive horizontal bars show moderate and severe housing cost burden shares among renter households in each HUD income band.0%25%50%75%100%At or below 30% HAMFI52,31081.4% burdened30–50% HAMFI45,07086.5% burdened50–80% HAMFI53,38064.9% burdened80–100% HAMFI28,26036.7% burdenedAbove 100% HAMFI77,80010.4% burdened
Moderate: >30% to 50%Severe: >50%
Each percentage uses HUD’s published subtotal for that income band. For disclosure, HUD keeps 0 as 0, publishes 1–7 households as 4 and rounds 8 or more to the nearest 5. Independently rounded categories can differ from their displayed sum and are not forced into a percentage.
Direct local rental evidence

Recent leases and rental-market liquidity in San Bernardino County, CA

These Apartment List observations match the exact county Census code 06071. They are kept separate from Zillow asking rent, Census occupied-home rent and wider metro measures.

Direct recent-lease rent history

Monthly overall-rent index; missing observations are not filled from another geography.

$1,856$1,801$1,7462021-082026-07
Recent-lease rent$1,8132026-07 · +1.1% year over year
Rental vacancy4.1%2026-07 · -0.1 percentage points year over year
Time on market21 days2026-07 · +1.6 days year over year
County brief

What the local evidence says

01Decision frame

San Bernardino County is a rent-versus-carrying-cost screen rather than a clean price-momentum case. Zillow's county median home value slipped at its 2026-06 observation to $553,855, while median asking rent was $2,489 per month and supported a published 5.39% gross yield before expenses. Investigators should test property-level costs and rent durability; buyers relying on appreciation or unverified operating margins should be cautious. These are measured market-rent data, not subsidy standards.

02Housing economics

HUD's two-bedroom FMR of $2,201 per month is a payment standard, not an estimate of asking rent; it should not be used to derive yield. The effective property-tax rate is 0.70%, a carrying-cost input alongside unspecified insurance, maintenance, and financing. FHFA's repeat-transaction HPI rose 1.23% in its annual 2025 series. It challenges Zillow's price direction, but the methods and vintages differ and cannot be combined into an appreciation rate.

03Demand & competition

Demand evidence does not resolve whether tenancy will absorb supply. Net tax-return migration was -3,043, and movers in had average AGI $2,383 below movers out; both warrant submarket and renter-income checks. Investor mortgages made up 9.86% of purchases, showing nonoccupant participation but not identifying cash bidders. In Realtor.com's 2026-06 MLS listing market, active listings were 5,846, median marketing time was 58 days, and 16.44% had price reductions. These are visible supply, marketing time, and seller concessions—not sale prices or proof of buyer demand.

04Risk & next checks

Risk limits are substantial: modeled climate loss equals 0.47% of building value per year and inland flood is the dominant hazard, but a county model cannot establish parcel exposure or insurance cost. QCEW is annual covered employment at county workplaces, not resident employment, unemployment, or a forecast; Trade, transportation, and utilities is only the largest disclosed private supersector. Missing vacancy, lease-renewal, operating-expense, insurance, parcel-hazard, and closed-sale evidence prevents a property-level cap-rate and exit-value conclusion.

County ZIP rental landscape

How asking rent and renter pressure vary inside San Bernardino County, CA

This view uses 12 direct Zillow ZIP markets matched to Census ZCTAs. Each ZIP is assigned by its largest HUD residential county share; this is not an exhaustive county inventory.

Selected ZIP range$1,815$3,010Zillow asking-rent index
Monthly spread$1,195highest minus lowest selected ZIP
Observed burden range52.2%65.1%ACS renter households paying 30%+
Renter households covered112,821across the selected ZCTAs
01 · ASKING RENT LADDERDirect ZIP ZORI
Horizontal bars compare Zillow asking-rent indexes across the selected direct-evidence ZIP set.91709$3,01091730$2,78792376$2,63791764$2,60592335$2,57391762$2,50991786$2,36292345$2,12092407$2,06292324$1,92992404$1,85992410$1,815
02 · PRESSURE MATRIXRent × observed burden
Each point is one selected ZIP and ZCTA match. Horizontal position is Zillow asking rent and vertical position is the ACS renter cost-burden share.67.6%63.1%58.6%54.1%49.7%917309233591786924049176492345923769176292324924109170992407Zillow asking-rent index →ACS burden share →
03 · BENCHMARK GAPZORI vs HUD 2BR
Bars show the percentage difference between the Zillow blended asking-rent index and the local HUD two-bedroom standard. Their housing universes differ.91709+136.8%91730+126.6%92376+119.8%91764+118.4%92335+116.9%91762+114.0%91786+107.3%92345+96.3%92407+93.7%92324+87.6%92404+84.5%92410+82.5%
WHAT THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION SAYS

Within the 12 selected ZIP/ZCTA matches, Zillow’s June 2026 ZORI—an observed typical asking-rent index—runs from $1,815 in 92410 to $3,010 in 91709, a $1,195 spread. The selected-set median is $2,435.50, slightly below the county ZORI of $2,489. This spread makes the rental decision a ZIP-level screening exercise rather than a countywide-price exercise: a household should decide whether its current budget can absorb the range of observed asking-rent signals, then test active units. These observations describe the selected direct-evidence set, not a complete county rental inventory.

ZORI should be compared with, but never blended into, the other rent measures. ACS five-year ZCTA median gross-rent estimates run from $1,355 to $2,894; they are survey estimates, not current asking-rent observations. The HUD two-bedroom FMR is $2,201 in every shown record, but it is an administrative bedroom-specific standard, not a market quote. Across the selected records, the ZORI-to-FMR relationship spans 82.5% to 136.8%. That ratio is useful as a program-standard reference, but it cannot establish the price, bedroom configuration, or eligibility of a particular available unit. Use each measure for its distinct purpose and period.

Burden and vacancy data add constraints that asking-rent levels alone cannot resolve. In these selected ZCTAs, the ACS share of renter households spending at least thirty percent of income on rent ranges from 52.2% to 65.1%, against 58.5% countywide; the corresponding survey vacancy estimates range from 2.1% to 6.1%. ZIP 92404 illustrates why a low current index is not a complete affordability answer: its $1,859 ZORI appears with the set’s 65.1% burden high and a 3.7% vacancy rate. This is not evidence that rent causes burden or vacancy, since the measures differ in definition and period. Treat surveyed burden as household-strain context and vacancy as a separate stock signal, rather than as a count of live listings.

Coverage and geography require a final check before acting. The display contains 12 of 44 eligible direct ZORI ZIP/ZCTA matches and covers 112,821 renter households, so it neither ranks every county ZIP nor represents a complete local inventory. For county display, each ZIP is assigned where it has the largest HUD residential-address share; shown shares range from 98.5% to 100.0%, yet ZIPs can cross county lines and Census ZCTAs are not identical to USPS delivery ZIPs. At the property level, verify the live asking rent, availability date, bedroom count, lease term, included charges, deposits and fees, application criteria, and any applicable program rules before comparing a unit with ZORI or HUD.

Selected ZIP evidence

Keep each source universe visible

44 ZIP profiles passed the county gate; the 12 with the most renter households are shown.

ZIP / ZCTAZillow asking rentACS gross rentHUD 2BRBurden 30%+VacancyIncome screenHUD county share
91730$2,787$2,299$2,20157.1%3.2%$111k100.0%
92335$2,573$1,707$2,20154.0%2.6%$103k100.0%
91786$2,362$1,969$2,20152.2%2.9%$94k99.8%
92404$1,859$1,476$2,20165.1%3.7%$74k100.0%
91764$2,605$2,181$2,20159.0%5.0%$104k100.0%
92345$2,120$1,534$2,20157.2%4.3%$85k100.0%
92376$2,637$1,724$2,20155.6%3.7%$105k100.0%
91762$2,509$1,801$2,20160.5%4.1%$100k100.0%
92324$1,929$1,656$2,20154.7%5.3%$77k98.5%
92410$1,815$1,355$2,20158.6%6.1%$73k100.0%
91709$3,010$2,894$2,20153.3%2.1%$120k99.9%
92407$2,062$1,886$2,20153.6%3.4%$82k100.0%
READ BEFORE USING

The direct-evidence display is selected from eligible matched records rather than a complete county inventory. Its ordering by renter households and its ZIP matching mean that omitted locations may have materially different rent, burden, or vacancy readings.

Zillow, ACS, and HUD use different concepts, periods, and geographic constructs. ZIPs may cross county boundaries, while ZCTAs are statistical areas rather than USPS delivery ZIPs; crosswalk assignment is a display convention, not proof that every address lies in the county.

SOURCE LEDGERCensus ACS 5-year — county housing value, tenure and stockACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30Census ACS five-year — ZCTA housing and incomeACS 2024 5-year ZCTA · pulled 2026-08-08HUD Fair Market Rents — Section 8 standardFY2026 FMR · pulled 2026-07-26HUD-USPS ZIP-to-county residential-address crosswalkHUD-USPS 2026Q1 · pulled 2026-08-09Zillow ZHVI and ZORI — county values and rentscounty ZHVI/ZORI 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-26Zillow ZORI — ZIP market rentsZORI ZIP 2026-06 · pulled 2026-08-08
Cities & communities

Where people live within San Bernardino County

Census-recognized incorporated places and CDPs that intersect this county. The list does not pretend to include every neighborhood or informal community.

Population scale

Largest Census places

ACS 2024 5-year
San Bernardino city222.7KFontana city214.2KOntario city180.5KRancho Cucamonga city175.4KVictorville city137.6KRialto city104.1KHesperia city100.8KChino city92.7K
Bars use total place population, not a county-share estimate. An asterisk marks a place that crosses a county line.
Official directory

52 Census places

Population
  1. 01
    San Bernardino cityIncorporated place
    222,724
  2. 02
    Fontana cityIncorporated place
    214,169
  3. 03
    Ontario cityIncorporated place
    180,547
  4. 04
    Rancho Cucamonga cityIncorporated place
    175,411
  5. 05
    Victorville cityIncorporated place
    137,627
  6. 06
    Rialto cityIncorporated place
    104,143
  7. 07
    Hesperia cityIncorporated place
    100,775
  8. 08
    Chino cityIncorporated place
    92,652
  9. 09
    Upland cityIncorporated place
    79,257
  10. 10
    Chino Hills cityIncorporated place
    77,927
  11. 11
    Apple Valley townIncorporated place
    75,473
  12. 12
    Redlands cityIncorporated place
    73,375
Show 40 more places
  1. 13
    Highland cityIncorporated place
    56,675
  2. 14
    Yucaipa cityIncorporated place
    54,421
  3. 15
    Colton cityIncorporated place
    53,772
  4. 16
    Adelanto cityIncorporated place
    37,964
  5. 17
    Montclair cityIncorporated place
    37,810
  6. 18
    Twentynine Palms cityIncorporated place
    27,355
  7. 19
    Bloomington CDPCensus-designated place
    25,698
  8. 20
    Loma Linda cityIncorporated place
    25,122
  9. 21
    Barstow cityIncorporated place
    25,100
  10. 22
    Yucca Valley townIncorporated place
    21,770
  11. 23
    Phelan CDPCensus-designated place
    18,496
  12. 24
    Grand Terrace cityIncorporated place
    13,078
  13. 25
    Muscoy CDPCensus-designated place
    12,025
  14. 26
    Big Bear City CDPCensus-designated place
    11,431
  15. 27
    Lake Arrowhead CDPCensus-designated place
    10,639
  16. 28
    Crestline CDPCensus-designated place
    9,835
  17. 29
    Mentone CDPCensus-designated place
    9,514
  18. 30
    Spring Valley Lake CDPCensus-designated place
    9,483
  19. 31
    Oak Hills CDPCensus-designated place
    9,013
  20. 32
    Fort Irwin CDPCensus-designated place
    8,419
  21. 33
    Piñon Hills CDPCensus-designated place
    7,065
  22. 34
    Silver Lakes CDPCensus-designated place
    6,977
  23. 35
    Joshua Tree CDPCensus-designated place
    6,234
  24. 36
    Lucerne Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    5,957
  25. 37
    Wrightwood CDPCensus-designated place
    5,067
  26. 38
    Big Bear Lake cityIncorporated place
    5,041
  27. 39
    Running Springs CDPCensus-designated place
    4,917
  28. 40
    Needles cityIncorporated place
    4,872
  29. 41
    Morongo Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    4,209
  30. 42
    Mountain View Acres CDPCensus-designated place
    3,512
  31. 43
    San Antonio Heights CDPCensus-designated place
    3,458
  32. 44
    Lenwood CDPCensus-designated place
    3,383
  33. 45
    Homestead Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    2,689
  34. 46
    Searles Valley CDPCensus-designated place
    1,713
  35. 47
    Big River CDPCensus-designated place
    1,140
  36. 48
    Yermo CDPCensus-designated place
    958
  37. 49
    Lytle Creek CDPCensus-designated place
    672
  38. 50
    Oak Glen CDPCensus-designated place
    510
  39. 51
    Baker CDPCensus-designated place
    339
  40. 52
    Bluewater CDPCensus-designated place
    177

Population is the total place-wide ACS estimate, not an allocated county share. A place crossing a county line is labelled explicitly. Source: Census ACS 5-year — cities and communities · ACS 2024 5-year · pulled 2026-07-30.

Risk, demand and competition

The three things a price does not tell you

01
Risk & carrying costFEMA NRI + Census ACS
Dominant hazardinland flooding

0.473% of building value expected lost per year

Effective property tax0.70%

$3,538 median annual bill

02
DemandIRS SOI household flows
Net migration-3,043

45,986 in · 49,029 out

Arriving vs leaving income−$2,383

$60,559 arriving · $62,942 leaving

03
CompetitionHMDA financed purchases
Purchases by investors9.9%

1,732 of 17,569 mortgages

investorother financed
Current listing pressure

What sellers and visible supply are doing

Realtor.com® Economic Research · county inventory 2026-06 · pulled 2026-07-28
Active listings5,846▼ 7.7% year over year
Median days on market58▲ 2.6% year over year
Listings price-reduced16.4%seller-concession signal
Median listing pricen/a▼ 1.2% year over year

Listing price is an asking price, not a closed sale. Quality-flagged county rows are withheld instead of displayed.

Same metro

The other counties in Riverside, CA

A metro is an average of these. Which side of a county line a property sits on can change the tax bill, the hazard profile and the tenant pool.

CountyPopulationPriceRentYieldHazard
San Bernardino County2,197,104$554k$2,4895.4%inland flooding
Riverside County2,478,600$609k$2,5915.1%inland flooding
Bear case

What can break the county thesis

  1. Parcel-level inland-flood exposure or insurance expense could exceed the county modeled-loss measure.
  2. Unpublished vacancy, renewals, and operating expenses could materially weaken the published gross-yield screen.
  3. County listing conditions may not translate into an executable property-level sale price or exit value.
Underwriting questions

Before pricing a property

What gross yield is published from the market-rent and price data?

The record publishes a 5.39% gross yield before costs, based on market rent rather than HUD FMR.

Can the HUD two-bedroom FMR be treated as county asking rent?

No. The $2,201 FMR is a payment standard, while the record separately reports measured median asking rent.

What do the Realtor.com measures establish about the sale market?

They show MLS visible supply, marketing time, and price reductions; they do not report closed-sale prices or prove buyer demand.