Zip lookup · CA

90042
Los Angeles, California.

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro · population 56,835

What it costs per month · 90042 $5,060/mo

to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,380 (+89%) since Jan 2020.

What the home itself did
1 year
Down $2,726 -0%
$966,714$963,987 since Sep 2025
5 years
Up $86,281 +10%
$877,706$963,987 since Sep 2021

Monthly payment to buy the typical home

Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.

$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 90042 $5,060 United States $1,922
$1,000 $2,000 $3,000 $4,000 $5,000 2002 2010 2018 2026
  • 90042$5,060
  • United States$1,922

At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.

Typical home values in zip 90042 fell 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.

Asking rents in zip 90042 rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.

Owning the typical home in zip 90042 runs $4,004/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,513 in Nov 2023.

That is $6,638 a month against $2,634 rent: a $5,060 mortgage payment, plus $546 property tax and $1,032 insurance & upkeep.

Owning vs renting — zip 90042

The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.

$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 Owning all in $6,638 Renting $2,634 Mortgage only $5,060
$2,000 $4,000 $6,000 2018 2022 2026
  • Owning all in$6,638
  • Renting$2,634
  • Mortgage only$5,060

Property tax · $546/mo 0.68% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Los Angeles County, CA

Insurance & upkeep · $1,032/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.

Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.

Zillow also publishes an index for the city itself: Los Angeles, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.

Asking rent $2,634 as of Sep 2026
+0.5%year on year
Typical home value $963,987 as of Sep 2026
-0.3%year on year

Asking rent — 90042

Against the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro and the national benchmark.

$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 90042 $2,634 Los Angeles $2,929 United States $1,932
$1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 90042$2,634
  • Los Angeles$2,929
  • United States$1,932

Typical home value — 90042

Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.

$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 90042 $963,987 Los Angeles $950,020 United States $366,157
$250,000 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 2018 2022 2026
  • 90042$963,987
  • Los Angeles$950,020
  • United States$366,157

Within 20 miles

Showing 30 of 198 zips in range — sorting picks from all 198.

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1.8 90041 Los Angeles 27,920 $2,991 $1,268,286
2.0 91030 South Pasadena 26,068 $2,655 $1,678,110
2.1 90065 Los Angeles 44,658 $2,857 $1,085,863
2.3 91105 Pasadena 12,531 $3,196 $1,782,490
2.6 90031 Los Angeles 36,127 $2,177 $792,161
2.6 90032 Los Angeles 43,117 $2,555 $785,997
3.3 91205 Glendale 34,254 $2,296 $857,842
3.4 91206 Glendale 31,961 $2,469 $1,115,600
3.8 91101 Pasadena 21,165 $2,909 $761,768
3.8 91803 Alhambra 27,715 $2,411 $936,749
4.0 91103 Pasadena 25,142 $3,592 $1,072,392
4.0 90039 Los Angeles 28,884 $3,042 $1,333,486
4.0 91106 Pasadena 23,910 $2,840 $905,392
4.0 91801 Alhambra 53,381 $2,750 $879,264
4.2 91204 Glendale 17,857 $2,743 $765,909
4.3 90012 Los Angeles 37,336 $2,556 $579,084
4.3 91210 Glendale 312 $5,025 $1,163,961
4.5 91108 San Marino 12,401 $7,866 $2,795,291
4.5 90033 Los Angeles 45,647 $2,263 $645,068
4.8 90026 Los Angeles 62,692 $2,781 $1,140,670
4.8 91207 Glendale 10,438 $4,054 $1,690,123
4.8 90063 Los Angeles 48,397 $2,305 $660,157
4.9 91203 Glendale 16,856 $2,931 $781,053
5.2 91754 Monterey Park 32,248 $2,614 $916,513
5.4 91104 Pasadena 35,937 $2,722 $1,206,489
5.6 90013 Los Angeles 14,357 $2,710 $533,729
5.7 90027 Los Angeles 46,558 $2,584 $1,769,300
5.8 91776 San Gabriel 36,952 $2,757 $955,192
5.9 91775 San Gabriel 23,672 $2,718 $1,250,084
5.9 90017 Los Angeles 30,172 $2,658 $577,942

Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.