Homes for Sale in
Pleasant Hill, CA.
Pleasant Hill has the most earned name in Contra Costa — small, leafy, centrally located, and genuinely quiet. Between Walnut Creek and Martinez, close to BART, and pound-for-pound the best commuter town in the corridor.
Most of Pleasant Hill is zip 94523. The difference between buyers' PH picks comes down to three or four neighborhood names — I'll walk you through which ones fit your life.
A neighborhood-first read.
With ~34,800 residents, Pleasant Hill is one of the smaller cities in the corridor but sits exactly where most commuters want to be — 20 minutes to Oakland on BART, 12 to Walnut Creek for dining, 8 to the hospital in Martinez. The new Downtown PH (around Crescent Plaza) is small but genuinely walkable with good bones.
Gregory Gardens is the classic 60s/70s family neighborhood — mature trees, flat streets, big lots relative to price. Poets Corner and Sherman Acres trade on walkability. Shell Ridge hugs the Mt. Diablo foothills for buyers who want space. The school options are mostly Mount Diablo Unified with strong elementary feeders.
Se habla español. PH has a growing Spanish-speaking community, especially through Gregory Gardens. Everything in Spanish if you prefer.
Zip codes in Pleasant Hill
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Home types in Pleasant Hill
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Schools & neighborhoods
Neighborhood and school-district pages with price trends and active listings.
This is my city.
Genuinely.
Pleasant Hill sits between two cities I work in weekly, so I pass through PH constantly. It's the first neighborhood I recommend for commuters who want space without paying Walnut Creek prices — and the one I wish more of my out-of-area clients knew about before they started their search.
The PH market is also small enough that the same 3–4 agents show up on most transactions. I know who writes clean offers, who needs hand-holding, and which prep-and-pricing strategies actually move needle here.