Acton, California.
Typical home $845,523 (+0.0% in a year). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,309 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $68 +0%
- $845,455$845,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,511 +16%
- $729,013$845,523 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.
- Acton$4,438
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Acton, CA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Acton, Los Angeles County, California
Acton, in Los Angeles County, had 7,431 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $113,000 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Los Angeles County was 4.5% in September 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Acton is a small community where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, and the population skews older than much of the country. Household incomes run above the county's, though homes here are a sizeable purchase and some residents still live below the poverty line. Winters are mild and brief, with little or no snow, while summers turn hot, and the year brings very little rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, the building trades and government. Some of the largest local workplaces are school districts, including iLEAD Hybrid District and Acton-Agua Dulce Unified, along with the Forest Service. Commutes are long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Vasquez Rocks, a park, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Angeles National Forest, a protected area for time outdoors, and to The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden with art and library collections.
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- 2,696households
- 30%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 47 mintypical commute
- 20%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Los Angeles County had 4,525,460 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 58° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 68°. About 7 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palmdale weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Acton
- iLEAD Hybrid DistrictSchool district319FTE
- Acton-Agua Dulce UnifiedSchool district132FTE
- iLEAD Online DistrictSchool district128FTE
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture114
- Davis Construction PlumbingPlumbing contractors53
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 1 workplace with 20 or more staff, 53 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Acton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Acton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Acton$845,523
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Acton listings — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Acton19.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Acton47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Acton12
Zip codes with a Acton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Acton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.