90240
Downey, California.
Downey, Los Angeles County, CA · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro · population 24,853
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,467 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,282 +2%
- $913,257$933,540 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $138,365 +17%
- $795,174$933,540 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.
- 90240$4,900
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in zip 90240 rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 90240 rose 2.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 90240 runs $3,429/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,630 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,323 a month against $2,894 rent: a $4,796 mortgage payment, plus $528 property tax and $999 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 90240
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.
- Owning all in$6,323
- Renting$2,894
- Mortgage only$4,796
Property tax · $528/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 · $999/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: Downey, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 90240
Against the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro and the national benchmark.
- 90240$2,894
- Los Angeles$2,923
- United States$1,930
Typical home value — 90240
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 90240$933,540
- Los Angeles$950,020
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
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| Miles sorted ascending, activate to sort descending | Zip activate to sort by Zip | City activate to sort by City | Population activate to sort by Population | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.3 | 90241 | Downey | 45,319 | $2,355 | $923,858 |
| 2.7 | 90660 | Pico Rivera | 60,272 | $2,291 | $746,344 |
| 2.7 | 90242 | Downey | 40,767 | $2,181 | $818,841 |
| 3.1 | 90040 | Los Angeles | 11,430 | — | $693,189 |
| 3.2 | 90201 | Bell Gardens | 92,763 | $2,310 | $690,202 |
| 3.3 | 90606 | Whittier | 32,057 | $2,966 | $766,743 |
| 3.6 | 90670 | Santa Fe Springs | 17,851 | $3,430 | $776,831 |
| 4.0 | 90650 | Norwalk | 99,900 | $2,664 | $753,843 |
| 4.1 | 90640 | Montebello | 61,382 | $2,837 | $818,049 |
| 4.3 | 90280 | South Gate | 91,365 | $2,264 | $696,546 |
| 4.6 | 90270 | Maywood | 24,218 | $1,635 | $645,116 |
| 4.8 | 90706 | Bellflower | 76,819 | $2,221 | $793,218 |
| 4.9 | 90723 | Paramount | 52,050 | $2,803 | $649,187 |
| 5.2 | 90022 | Los Angeles | 60,343 | $2,109 | $676,218 |
| 5.3 | 90262 | Lynwood | 64,235 | $2,072 | $687,368 |
| 5.5 | 90602 | Whittier | 25,905 | $2,116 | $840,033 |
| 5.6 | 90605 | Whittier | 39,387 | $2,709 | $790,713 |
| 5.9 | 90255 | Huntington Park | 69,349 | $1,807 | $668,582 |
| 6.0 | 90601 | Whittier | 30,078 | $2,394 | $854,534 |
| 6.3 | 90604 | Whittier | 39,276 | $2,445 | $824,520 |
| 6.4 | 91755 | Monterey Park | 26,810 | $2,671 | $900,669 |
| 6.4 | 90058 | Los Angeles | 3,585 | — | $583,278 |
| 6.5 | 90701 | Artesia | 15,889 | $2,549 | $859,119 |
| 6.6 | 90023 | Los Angeles | 43,857 | $2,316 | $635,276 |
| 6.7 | 91754 | Monterey Park | 32,248 | $2,614 | $916,513 |
| 6.7 | 90703 | Cerritos | 48,108 | $3,385 | $1,087,731 |
| 7.0 | 90221 | Compton | 50,659 | $2,023 | $643,639 |
| 7.2 | 91733 | South El Monte | 41,255 | $2,324 | $748,136 |
| 7.2 | 90603 | Whittier | 21,118 | — | $879,609 |
| 7.3 | 90063 | Los Angeles | 48,397 | $2,305 | $660,157 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.