This is how Huntington Beach housing looks compared to the rest of the nation in Zillow’s eyes.
The online housing tracker’s national databases can help add some perspective to the high price of local living.
As of November, for example, Orange County real estate by Zillow’s math — the No. 5 nationally in housing market size — has a median home value of $696,200, 13th highest in the 1,700-plus U.S. counties tracked. That’s after surging 44.7 percent in the last five years, the 212th ranked gain nationally.
Other Southern California median values: Los Angeles County at $588,000 (No. 22 nationally); San Diego County at $560,800 (No. 27); Riverside County at $354,600 (No. 85); and San Bernardino County at $318,200 (No. 123).
For Huntington Beach, here’s how Zillow sees home values as of November compared to some 13,000-plus other U.S. cities …
Market size: No. 125 nationally, or in the top 2 percent.
Price: $779,000 — that’s No. 329 nationally or in the top 3 percent.
5-year gain: 39.5 percent — that’s No. 2,656 or in the top 21 percent.
10-year gain: 10.5 percent — that’s No. 4,230 or in the top 37 percent.
All-time high value? $788,100 in May 2006 or 1.2 percent above current level.
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