Eureka, CA Housing Market 2026: Median Home Price, Last 12 Months

If you invest in or around Eureka, the number that matters is what homes actually close for, not what sellers are asking. Here is what Eureka sale prices look like right now, built from the closings Resideline tracked over the last 12 months, as of October 2026.

The snapshot

• •Closings tracked, last 12 months: 236
• •Median sold price, last 12 months: $379,500
• •Median sold $/sqft, last 12 months: $265
• •Middle half of sales closed between: $295,077 and $475,000

What the numbers say

Resideline tracked 236 closed sales in Eureka over the last 12 months, with a median closing price of $379,500. That median is the midpoint of what buyers actually paid, not what sellers hoped to get, which is why it moves differently from the asking prices you see on listing sites. The middle half of those sales closed between $295,077 and $475,000. That spread matters more than the headline median: where a specific property sits inside it decides whether the citywide number helps you or misleads you. These are the closings Resideline tracks and may differ from complete county or municipal records. 86% of the Eureka closings we track here are single-family houses, so these figures primarily reflect that segment, and the citywide $/sqft figure primarily reflects that segment as well. Across the 220 closings with usable living area, the middle half sold between $197 and $319 per square foot.

Figures last updated October 3, 2026 from closings Resideline tracked.

Median home price in Eureka, CA (October 2026)

The median home price in Eureka is $379,500, measured across the 236 closed sales Resideline tracked over the last 12 months. The middle half of those sales closed between $295,077 and $475,000.

Where Eureka sale prices land

Medians hide the shape of a market. The distribution above covers the closed sales Resideline tracked in Eureka over the last 12 months that carry a usable sale date, trimmed to the 5th through 95th percentile, with the middle half of sales closing between $295,077 and $475,000. Among the 262 California markets with a published band, Eureka's middle-half spread ($295,077 to $475,000) ranks 128th from the narrowest. Where your target property sits inside that spread matters more than the citywide median. Measured as the ratio of the upper to the lower quartile, its middle-half spread ranks in the 41st percentile of the 2,230 US markets in Resideline's national Market Watch set, on data as of October 3, 2026.

How long a sale takes here

• •Listed to under contract: a median of 16 days, across 89 Eureka closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months
• •Contract to closing: a median of 31 days, across 88 Eureka closings Resideline tracked in the last 12 months

The Eureka angle

Eureka's tracked record for the last 12 months comes to 236 closings at a median sale price of $379,500, with the middle half of sales between $295,077 and $475,000. Two things stand out from those figures. The band's width is close to typical for the markets we track, and the median splits it evenly enough that the gap down to $295,077 and the gap up to $475,000 are of comparable size, so the center of the market is where the midpoint suggests. That balance makes Eureka a market where the standard method needs no local modification: closed sales matched to the subject produce the estimate, the band supplies the range of ordinary variation, and $379,500 tells you which half of the market you have landed in.

Eureka market data by ZIP code

Citywide medians hide block-by-block variation. Resideline publishes free, regularly refreshed market snapshots for Eureka ZIP codes: 95503.

From market read to offer price

A market read is the backdrop. The decision still comes down to one property and one number: what it is actually worth and what you should pay. Every Resideline report opens with this same market snapshot for the subject's exact ZIP code, then gives you the property's value, the sold comps behind it, and a market rent estimate. Pricing a specific deal? The free ARV calculator, rehab cost estimator, BRRRR calculator and rental property calculator run the numbers in about a minute.

And we show our work. Every estimate is frozen while the home is for sale and graded against the real closing price after it sells. See the live accuracy dashboard for the receipts, or read how the Area Market Snapshot works.

Run any Eureka address through Resideline and you will see the local market and the property's value together, in one report.

Cite this

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Source: Resideline Market Watch
Market: Eureka, CA
Geography: incorporated municipality, Census place 0623042
Data updated: October 2026
Analysis period: last 12 months
Tracked closings: 236
Median sold price: $379,500
Median sold $/sqft: $265 (220 qualifying)
Property mix: 86% houses
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The local market statistics in this report are calculated from closed sales tracked by Resideline. Transaction coverage may differ from complete county or municipal records.

Every local market figure on this page is computed from closed sales Resideline tracked in Eureka over the last 12 months, and is refreshed when the data is. The closings we track within the Eureka city limits are not limited to listing-service sales: they also include foreclosure deeds, estate and family transfers, and other off-market sales that portal medians exclude, which is why 20% of the 236 closings in this window never appeared on a listing service, and the median of MLS-listed sales alone was $390,000.