Californians Must Make $200,000 or More to Afford an Average Home in 4 Cities

But median incomes for the cities—San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego—fall well short.

A neighborhood of single-family homes in Los Angeles on July 30, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Californians who want to buy a home in four of the state’s largest cities need to make $200,000 or more a year, according to the national real estate company Zillow.

Those cities are San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego, Zillow reported Feb. 29.