Silicon Valley ZIP Codes Top List of 2016's Highest U.S. Home Prices

Here's a migraine for would-be Bay Area homebuyers and a source of probably undeserved self-congratulations for those who bought a place here in, say, the 1990s, and have stuck around to build up some equity: An updated tally of U.S. home prices finds that 38 of the 100 most expensive ZIP codes in the nation are in our nine-county region.

Real estate research firm PropertyShark.com says ZIP code 94027, in the Silicon Valley suburb of Atherton, is the most expensive in the Bay Area, based on 2016 sales prices, and No. 2 in the entire country with a median property price of $5.425 million.

The top area on the national list, 11962, is Sagaponack, New York, in Long Island's wealthy Hamptons, with a 2016 median sales price of $5.5 million. (A math reminder: median is the midpoint in a range of values -- here, we're talking home prices -- with half the values below that point and half above.)

The PropertyShark list shows that eight of the 10 top Bay Area ZIP codes are in or adjacent to Silicon Valley, including two areas in Palo Alto and two in Los Altos. Twelve ZIP codes in the region have recorded median sales prices of $2 million or more this year.

In terms of national and state bragging rights -- if having so much housing stock rise beyond the reach of all but the most wealthy or daring is anything to brag about -- the San Francisco Bay region appears to have the most ZIP codes (38, remember) in the national Top 100. Los Angeles and Orange counties, which as ignorant norteños we're treating as a single metro area, have 28 ZIP codes in that top tier.

The report also finds that 70 of the top 100 ZIP codes nationwide are in California and 20 are in New York state. The remaining 10 include two each in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey and one each in Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Washington state.

Here's the list of Bay Area ZIP codes. You can find PropertyShark's full list here.

Bay Area RankNational RankZIP CodeCityMedian Sale Price

1	2	94027	Atherton	$5,425,000
2	8	94301	Palo Alto	$2,935,000
3	9	94022	Los Altos	$2,831,250
4	10	94028	Portola Valley	$2,815,000
5	13	94957	Ross	$2,771,250
6	15	94024	Los Altos	$2,637,500
7	22	94010	Burlingame	$2,234,000
8	23	94306	Palo Alto	$2,227,500
9	24	94123	San Francisco	$2,210,000
10	25	95030	Los Gatos	$2,180,000
11	28	95070	Saratoga	$2,160,000
12	31	94920	Tiburon	$2,100,000
13	33	94970	Stinson Beach	$1,950,000
14	37	94118	San Francisco	$1,860,000
15	38	94025	Menlo Park	$1,850,000
16	39	94305	Stanford	$1,818,000
17	42	94528	Diablo	$1,785,000
18	55	95014	Cupertino	$1,600,000
19	57	94507	Alamo	$1,565,000
20	58	94087	Sunnyvale	$1,565,000
21	59	94062	Redwood City	$1,560,000
22	62	94041	Mountain View	$1,535,000
23	63	94114	San Francisco	$1,525,000
24	69	94705	Berkeley	$1,505,000
25	70	94402	San Mateo	$1,502,000
26	71	94939	Larkspur	$1,500,000
27	73	94040	Mountain View	$1,500,000
28	75	94070	San Carlos	$1,491,000
29	82	94108	San Francisco	$1,437,500
30	84	94002	Belmont	$1,425,000
31	85	94127	San Francisco	$1,420,000
32	87	94946	Nicasio	$1,410,000
33	90	95032	Los Gatos	$1,400,000
34	91	94117	San Francisco	$1,400,000
35	92	94131	San Francisco	$1,397,500
36	96	94904	Greenbrae	$1,365,000
37	99	95129	San Jose	$1,350,000
38	100	94563	Orinda	$1,350,000

Source: PropertyShark.com

Silicon Valley ZIP Codes Top List of 2016's Highest U.S. Home Prices

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