10 Census datasets to help you understand housing costs, the local housing stock and journeys to work. Inspect the numbers, check their limits and download the records.
Observation period: 2020 to 2024. These are historical survey estimates, not live listings, current market rents or Homzora survey results. Every table retains published 90 percent margins of error or the original special source code. Open interval medians are explicitly flagged.
Geographic coverage: San Diego city, California (city). Neighborhoods on the hub are not individually measured here.
Median gross rent at a glance
Occupied homes paying cash rent. Monthly dollars, adjusted to 2024. These are not current asking rents.
ACS 2020 to 2024 · Table B25064
Geography
Median
90% margin of error
San Diego city, California
$2,313
±$18
Separate published estimates. No ranking or statistical significance claim.
Census table B25064 · 2020 to 2024
Median gross rent
A benchmark for occupied rental homes, not the price of available listings. Gross rent includes contract rent plus applicable utilities and fuels. The median is not an average. Do not average medians across places.
Measured population: Renter-occupied housing units paying cash rent. Units: Monthly dollars, expressed in 2024 inflation adjusted dollars.
Use the published bands to understand housing cost pressure. The not computed category is retained. No combined burden percentage is calculated. Totals overlap component rows.
Measured population: Renter-occupied housing units. Units: Housing units in each published rent to income band.
Compare the number of owner occupied and renter occupied homes. One occupied housing unit represents one household. These are not resident population counts or a count of homes available to rent.
Understand the building mix, including detached homes and multifamily buildings. Counts include occupied and vacant housing units, not only rentals. Building size does not establish quality or price.
Measured population: Housing units. Units: Housing units by units in structure.
Travel modes and working from home describe resident workers, not only renters. Total and subgroup rows overlap. These figures do not measure current transit service or daily trips.
Measured population: Workers 16 years and over. Units: Workers age 16 and over.
Published journey time bands describe resident commuters. People working from home are excluded. This is not an address specific route estimate or a current traffic forecast.
Measured population: Workers 16 years and over who did not work from home. Units: Workers age 16 and over who did not work from home.
Compare published medians for different bedroom counts among occupied homes paying cash rent. These are not current listings. The total median repeats the overall rent benchmark; medians must not be added or averaged.
Measured population: Renter-occupied housing units paying cash rent. Units: Monthly dollars, expressed in 2024 inflation adjusted dollars.
7 table rows across 1 geographic areas. Totals may overlap component rows. Snapshot prepared September 24, 2026.
The four bedroom and five or more bedroom medians are in an open interval. Their raw estimate code is 3501 and their margin code is minus 333333333. These are not exact rents or negative margins of error. The downloads preserve the raw codes and flag these rows.
San Diego city, California: view 7 published rows
city · GEO_ID 1600000US0666000
Median gross rent by bedrooms · San Diego city, California · 2020 to 2024
Published category
Estimate
90% margin of error
Median gross rent -- / Total:
2,313
±18
Median gross rent -- / Total: / No bedroom
1,797
±46
Median gross rent -- / Total: / 1 bedroom
1,963
±24
Median gross rent -- / Total: / 2 bedrooms
2,442
±25
Median gross rent -- / Total: / 3 bedrooms
2,948
±73
Median gross rent -- / Total: / 4 bedrooms
Open interval; see note
Not available (***)
Median gross rent -- / Total: / 5 or more bedrooms
Compare the published median income for renter and owner households. This does not measure the income of individual earners or establish the income required to qualify for a home. Do not divide the median rent by median income to estimate household cost burden.
Measured population: Occupied housing units. Units: Annual household income in 2024 inflation adjusted dollars.
Understand the age composition of occupied and vacant homes. Construction period does not establish building condition, legal coverage, renovation history or energy efficiency. These are stock estimates, not the number of homes completed each year.
Measured population: Housing units. Units: Housing units by published construction period.
Distinguish homes for rent from seasonal use, sale and other vacancy categories. These are historical counts, not a current vacancy rate or a list of available rentals. Do not treat every vacant unit as available housing.
Measured population: Vacant housing units. Units: Vacant housing units by published status.
Download area specific comparison prompts, official source links and the formulas used by the planning tools.
The three resources below are planning reference compilations, separate from the ten Census datasets above. No Homzora survey findings or neighborhood rankings are published here.
Source websites control their own content and reuse terms. Homzora does not relicense third party data.
To turn your housing research into a household budget, use the San Diego rental budget guide to organize questions about utilities, transportation and upfront costs. Keep these historical Census estimates separate from current written quotes for individual homes.