90402
Santa Monica, California.
Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro · population 11,337
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$12,152 (+91%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $546,078 +13%
- $4,306,492$4,852,570 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $828,947 +21%
- $4,023,623$4,852,570 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.
- 90402$25,470
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in zip 90402 rose 12.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in zip 90402 rose 5.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in zip 90402 runs $26,387/mo more than renting one — the widest that gap has been in this data.
That is $33,416 a month against $7,029 rent: a $25,470 mortgage payment, plus $2,751 property tax and $5,195 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — zip 90402
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$33,416
- Renting$7,029
- Mortgage only$25,470
Property tax · $2,751/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 · $5,195/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: Santa Monica, CA — measured over the city limits, which is a different area from this zip.
Asking rent — 90402
Against the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro and the national benchmark.
- 90402$7,029
- Los Angeles$2,929
- United States$1,932
Typical home value — 90402
Mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- 90402$4,852,570
- Los Angeles$950,020
- United States$366,157
Within 20 miles
Showing 30 of 159 zips in range — sorting picks from all 159.
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.9 | 90403 | Santa Monica | 23,867 | $3,655 | $1,436,512 |
| 1.5 | 90401 | Santa Monica | 8,101 | $3,716 | $1,283,279 |
| 1.8 | 90404 | Santa Monica | 22,978 | $3,299 | $1,031,718 |
| 2.6 | 90405 | Santa Monica | 27,298 | $3,354 | $1,887,882 |
| 3.4 | 90025 | Los Angeles | 46,508 | $3,216 | $1,051,286 |
| 3.6 | 90049 | Los Angeles | 37,122 | $3,748 | $2,966,542 |
| 3.7 | 90291 | Venice | 26,324 | $3,825 | $1,907,076 |
| 3.9 | 90272 | Pacific Palisades | 21,390 | $12,849 | $2,850,079 |
| 4.4 | 90064 | Los Angeles | 26,642 | $3,492 | $1,834,140 |
| 4.4 | 90024 | Los Angeles | 51,675 | $3,512 | $1,333,696 |
| 4.8 | 90066 | Los Angeles | 56,740 | $3,028 | $1,692,692 |
| 5.1 | 90292 | Marina Del Rey | 23,982 | $3,921 | $1,230,276 |
| 5.4 | 90067 | Los Angeles | 3,875 | $11,481 | $1,580,025 |
| 5.5 | 90077 | Los Angeles | 8,386 | $13,742 | $3,061,985 |
| 6.0 | 90034 | Los Angeles | 57,075 | $2,728 | $1,405,747 |
| 6.1 | 90212 | Beverly Hills | 10,728 | $3,670 | $2,387,249 |
| 6.5 | 90094 | Playa Vista | 11,764 | $4,591 | $1,332,385 |
| 6.5 | 90232 | Culver City | 16,554 | $3,683 | $1,736,924 |
| 6.8 | 90230 | Culver City | 31,009 | $3,363 | $1,063,490 |
| 6.8 | 90035 | Los Angeles | 29,000 | $3,326 | $1,592,933 |
| 6.9 | 90210 | Beverly Hills | 19,004 | $9,351 | $5,308,262 |
| 7.0 | 90293 | Playa Del Rey | 12,655 | $3,219 | $891,466 |
| 7.2 | 90211 | Beverly Hills | 9,120 | $4,026 | $2,240,826 |
| 7.5 | 90290 | Topanga | 6,315 | $6,317 | $1,388,594 |
| 7.9 | 90048 | Los Angeles | 21,476 | $3,350 | $1,749,425 |
| 8.0 | 91403 | Sherman Oaks | 25,793 | $2,759 | $1,430,166 |
| 8.1 | 91436 | Encino | 15,969 | $6,253 | $2,180,971 |
| 8.1 | 90069 | West Hollywood | 20,961 | $4,095 | $1,226,759 |
| 8.3 | 90045 | Los Angeles | 41,786 | $2,950 | $1,469,676 |
| 8.3 | 90056 | Los Angeles | 8,543 | $2,599 | $1,644,899 |
Coordinates and population from SimpleMaps US Zips (Basic). Rent and home values from Zillow Research.