Zillow Statistics

Last Updated: September 17, 2024

Highlights. In a typical year, Zillow apps and websites log 10.1 billion visits.

  • 70% of home buyers search listings on Zillow.
  • Zillow Group reported $1.945 billion in revenue for 2023, down 0.66% from 2022.
  • Zillow’s database includes 160 million homes; Zillow Rentals has 1.9 million listings.
  • While 100% home buyers used the internet to search for homes in 2023, 52% actually bought a home they found online.
  • An average visitor to Zillow.com spends five (5) minutes and 40 seconds browsing 11 pages.

Bar graph: Visits to Zillow Mobile Apps and Websites in billions from 2015 (3.992) to 2023 (9.977) according to Zillow and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commmission (SEC)

Zillow Market Statistics

By Zillow’s own estimates, their annual revenue represents 1.04% of a $187 billion total addressable market.

  • Over 60% of Zillow’s revenue comes from its Premier Agent program, which made $1.396 billion in its best year (2021).
  • $96.0 million of Zillow’s 2023 revenue came from mortgages, representing 4.94% of the year’s total revenue.
  • Zillow made the most from mortgages in 2021 with $246 million in revenue (11.5% of that year’s total).
  • Zillow’s best fiscal year was 2019 when revenue totaled $2.132 billion.
  • In 2020 through 2023, Zillow’s revenue increased at an average annual rate (AAR) of 4.58%.
  • From 2013 to 2018, Zillow revenue had a 52.4% AAR.

Bar graph: Zillow Annual Revenue in billions of U.S. dollars from 2012 (0.12) to 2023 (1.95) according to Zillow and SEC with iPM projections from 2024 (2.31) to 2026 (2.79)

Zillow User Statistics

On Google, more people enter the search term “Zillow” than “real estate.”

  • 65% of real estate mobile application traffic is on the Zillow app. 
  • 62% of real estate web traffic goes to Zillow and its subsidiaries.
  • 214 million unique users accessed a Zillow Group website or portal on a monthly basis in 2023.
  • 43 million home records on Zillow have user-generated updates. 
  • 80% of Zillow’s web traffic is organic; 20% comes from paid advertising.
  • Zillow web traffic is historically busiest during spring and summer months, with 233 million unique visitors in June 2023.
  • In 2022, a monthly average of 220 million people used Zillow.

Bar graph: Monthly Average Unique Zillow Users in millions from 2013 (54.4) to 2023 (214) according to SEC

Buy & Sell on Zillow

While the iBuyer program has been discontinued, homeowners and real estate professionals use Zillow to evaluate and advertise homes.

  • 75% of Zillow’s revenue comes from residential services (i.e. facilitating home sales).
  • 70% of homesellers are also looking to buy.
  • 18% of Zillow Group’s online visitors indicate they intend to buy a home. 
  • 3% of Zillow’s online visitors follow through with a home purchase.
  • Zillow generated 16.9 million leads for agent advertisers in one year.
  • 2 million real estate professionals have listings on Zillow; 92,366 (4.62%) are Zillow Premier Agents.

Bar Graph: Most Popular Real Estate Websites in 2023 based on average monthly visits in millions including Zillow (57.3), Realtor.com (30.1), and Trulia (9.8), etc. according to Statista

Zillow Home Loans

Zillow Home Loans (formerly Mortgage Lenders of America) is a matching service for prospective home buyers and lenders.

  • In total, Zillow originated $1.550 billion in home loans in 2023, up 0.4% from 2022 ($1.544 billion).
  • Zillow originated $1.534 billion home purchase loans in 2023, up 93.2% from 2022 ($794 million).
  • $16 million in Zillow refinance mortgages for 2023 was a 97.9% decline from 2022 ($750 million).
  • Zillow Home Loans operates in 49 states and jurisdictions.
  • 69% of homebuyers acquire a conventional loan to finance their home.
  • 15% of buyers with a mortgage use an online financer like Zillow Home Loans.
  • 80% of homes purchased* in the U.S. are financed with a mortgage.
  • 40% of homebuyers begin the process by looking for a mortgage

Doughnut chart: Zillow 2023 Revenue Sources including residential (75%), rentals (18%), mortgages (5%) and other (2%) out of $1.945 billion according to SEC

Zillow Rentals

Zillow Rentals connects would-be renters to landlords and property managers.

  • 44,000 multifamily properties advertise on Zillow Rentals, representing 2.32% of its active rental listings.
  • 73% of U.S. renters used online resources to search for an apartment.
  • 81% of renters indicate they hope to own a home someday.
  • 57% of renters cannot afford a home.

Stacked bar graph: Zillow Annual Revenue Sources in millions including residential, rentals, mortgages, and other from 2021 to 2023 according to SEC

Zillow Mobile Applications

Zillow’s mobile applications, or “apps,” continue to grow in users.

  • On GooglePlay, users have downloaded the Zillow app over 50 million times.
  • 1.22 million reviews on GooglePlay give the Zillow app an average rating of 4.7 stars (out of 5).
  • 7.1 million Apple users rate the Zillow Real Estate & Rentals app 4.8 stars (out of 5).
  • Users view 157 homes per second on Zillow mobile apps.

Line graph: Zillow Annual Revenue Growth from 2013 (60.1%) to 2023 (-0.66%) according to SEC and Zillow with iPM projections from 2024 (18.5%) to 2026 (2.97%)

Zillow Brands & Subsidiaries

Zillow Group is the parent company of acquisitions now operating under the Zillow brand.

  • Trulia, once Zillow’s greatest rival, is now a Zillow brand and the third-most popular online real estate brand with 9.8 million average monthly visitors.
  • Zillow acquisition HotPads receives 2.13 million unique monthly visitors.
  • Acquisition StreetEasy is exclusive to New York City.
  • Out East caters to upscale prospective second home-buyers in the Hamptons.
  • Bridge Interactive is just for real estate professionals and brokers, offering software and technology solutions for data management.
  • Zillow’s other software and technology for real estate marketing and management include ShowingTime+, Spruce and Follow Up Boss.

Pie chart: Where Buyers Find Their Homes including the Internet (52%), Real estate agent (28%) and Yard sign (4%), etc. according to the National Association of Realtors

Zillow Employment Statistics

Most current Zillow employees (89%) have no plans to change jobs in the next 12 months.

  • 6,263 full-time employees worked at Zillow at the end of 2023.
  • Zillow added a net 539 positions in 2023, up 9.42% over the previous year.
  • While 55% of Zillow’s workforce identifies as men, men hold 57% of leadership and management positions.
  • The share of self-identified men in the workforce declined 6.25% between 2022 and 2023; among leadership, the share of men declined 5.00%.
  • The number of men employed at Zillow increased by 469 between 2022 and 2023 while the number of women increased by 70.
  • 58% of Zillow’s workforce (and 72% of its leadership) is white.
  • The share of white workers in general declined 1.69% between 2022 and 2023; among leadership, the share declined 1.37%.
  • In 2021, Zillow had 8,005 full-time employees.
  • Zillow added a net 2,501 positions in 2021, up 45.4% over the previous year.

Grouped bar graph: Zillow Workforce Composition: Self-Identified Men from 2020 (65% of leadership, 57% of the general workforce) to 2023 (57% leadership, 55% workforce) according to SEC

Zillow Corporate Statistics

While Zillow has offices nationwide, corporate headquarters is located in Seattle, Washington.

  • Leased corporate office space for Zillow totals 116,015 square feet.
  • Zillow also has office space in California, Georgia, Kansas and New York for a total of 374,729 square feet of leased office space.
  • Corporate assets at Zillow total $3.149 billion in cash.
  • Zillow’s cash assets represent 47.3% of its total assets (including intangible assets) valued at $6.652 billion.
  • Three major financial institutions own Zillow’s corporate debt with a total $93 million outstanding.
    • UBS AG owns $45 million.
    • JP Morgan Chase Bank owns $40 million.
    • Atlas Securitized Products owns $8 million.

Grouped bar graph: Zillow 2023 Workforce Ethno-Racial Composition including Asian (17% of leadership positions and 20% of the general workforce), Black (5% of leadership, 8% of workforce)), Latine (4% leadership, 9% workforce), White (72% leadership, 58% workforce), and Multi/Other (2% leadership, 5% workforce) according to SEC

Sources

  1. United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Zillow Group, Inc
  2. Zillow Group
  3. National Association of REALTORS®
  4. Statista, Most Popular Real Estate Websites in the United States
  5. Google Play, Zillow
  6. Apple, App Store
  7. Similarweb
  8. Out East
  9. Bridge Interactive, About