What is the median rent in Highlands, CA?

Name: Median rent in Highlands, CA, 2020–2024
Creator: US Census Bureau
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The median gross rent in Highlands, CA is $3,500 or more a month, according to the US Census Bureau’s 2020–2024 American Community Survey.

That is across 125 rented homes; gross rent is the contract rent plus the utilities and fuels a renter pays separately.

Figures last updated on November 12, 2026.

Median gross rent: $3,500 or more
Rented homes: 125 (±40)
$2,000 or more: 100.0%

How much rent costs in Highlands

Share of rented homes in each gross-rent range, 2020–2024
Monthly gross rent	Highlands	San Mateo County	California	United States
Less than $500	0.0% (±28.1 points)	2.4%	3.6%	6.3%
$500 to $999	0.0% (±28.1 points)	2.0%	7.2%	20.2%
$1,000 to $1,499	0.0% (±28.1 points)	3.7%	16.2%	28.1%
$1,500 to $1,999	0.0% (±28.1 points)	9.7%	21.5%	21.1%
$2,000 to $2,499	0.0% (±28.1 points)	17.8%	19.8%	12.0%
$2,500 to $2,999	10.4% (±10.0 points)	17.1%	12.5%	5.5%
$3,000 or more	89.6% (±10.0 points)	47.3%	19.1%	6.8%

The most common range is $3,000 or more, paid by 89.6% of renting households.

100.0% of rented homes in Highlands cost $2,000 or more a month.

Highlands against San Mateo County, its state and the nation

Estimate (90% margin of error)
	Highlands	San Mateo County	California	United States
Median gross rent	$3,500 or more	$2,922 (±$40)	$2,036 (±$5)	$1,413
Rented homes paying rent	125 (±40)	106,795 (±1,875)	5,783,331 (±22,650)	42,849,984

Median gross rent in places near Highlands

Nearest places with a published estimate, compared with Highlands
Place	Distance	Median gross rent	Compared with this place
Highlands	—	$3,500 or more	—
Baywood Park	0.7 mi	$3,500 or more	—
Hillsborough	2.7 mi	$3,500 or more	—
Belmont	2.8 mi	$2,875 (±$108)	—
San Mateo	3.4 mi	$3,077 (±$100)	—
San Carlos	4.5 mi	$2,854 (±$128)	—
Burlingame	4.9 mi	$2,785 (±$120)	—
Emerald Lake Hills	5.8 mi	$3,500 or more	—
Foster City	6.1 mi	$3,500 or more	—

None of the nearby places differs measurably from this one on this figure.

Distance is measured in a straight line between the Census Bureau’s internal points for each place.

Median gross rent across San Mateo County, place by place

Rank	Place	Median gross rent
1 (tie)	Hillsborough	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Portola Valley	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Woodside	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Baywood Park	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Broadmoor	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Emerald Lake Hills	$3,500 or more
1 (tie)	Highlands	$3,500 or more
10	West Menlo Park	$3,324 (±$593)
11	Millbrae	$3,272 (±$163)
12	Menlo Park	$3,239 (±$156)
13	Pacifica	$3,098 (±$184)
14	San Mateo	$3,077 (±$100)
15	Montara	$3,032 (±$1,300)

Showing 13 of 28 places in San Mateo County, ranked from highest to lowest.

Highlands is a census-designated place: an unincorporated community the Census Bureau draws for statistics, with no municipal government of its own.

Survey years: 2020–2024 (American Community Survey 5-year estimates), compared with 2015–2019.

Margins of error are at the 90% confidence level.

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Questions about Highlands

What is the average rent in Highlands, CA?

The Census Bureau publishes the median rather than the average: the median gross rent in Highlands is $3,500 or more a month (2020–2024 American Community Survey), so half of renting households pay less and half pay more.

How many rentals in Highlands cost more than $2,000 a month?

100.0% of rented homes in Highlands have a gross rent of $2,000 or more a month, and 0.0% cost less than $500.

Is this the rent for an apartment listed today?

No: these are rents households reported paying across 2020–2024, not asking rents for vacant homes, which usually run higher.

Sources

To check these figures in the Census Bureau’s own API, request the variables below from the 2024 ACS 5-year data profile (acs/acs5/profile) for Highlands CDP, California (place:33632, in state:06).

Each estimate (E or PE) has a margin of error beside it (M or PM).

The 2015–2019 figures are B25064_001E, B25064_001M, DP04_0047PE, DP04_0047PM, DP04_0005E, DP04_0005M from the 2019 release.

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DP04_0134E, DP04_0134M, DP04_0126E, DP04_0126M, DP04_0127PE, DP04_0127PM, DP04_0128PE, DP04_0128PM, DP04_0129PE, DP04_0129PM, DP04_0130PE, DP04_0130PM, DP04_0131PE, DP04_0131PM, DP04_0132PE, DP04_0132PM, DP04_0133PE, DP04_0133PM

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Figures are published by the US Census Bureau, HUD, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the FBI; Seayora reproduces them and does not adjust them, except where a sentence says it compares dollar figures after inflation. They describe the whole place, not any one building or street, and are not an appraisal, a rent determination, a tax bill, a safety rating or legal advice.