Arcadia, California.
Typical home $1,375,605 (+1.6% in a year), asking rent $3,412 (+2.2%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,547 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $22,295 +2%
- $1,353,311$1,375,605 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $240,833 +21%
- $1,134,772$1,375,605 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.
- Arcadia$7,220
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Arcadia, CA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Arcadia, CA rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Arcadia runs $6,060/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $6,153 in Oct 2023.
That is $9,473 a month against $3,412 rent: a $7,220 mortgage payment, plus $780 property tax and $1,473 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Arcadia
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$9,473
- Renting$3,412
- Mortgage only$7,220
Property tax · $780/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 · $1,473/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.
Living in Arcadia, Los Angeles County, California
Arcadia is a city of 56,681 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $113,516 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Arcadia was 4.6% in August 2026, and Los Angeles 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. Arcadia is a city in Los Angeles County where households earn more than the county as a whole, and most homes are lived in by their owners. The typical home value and the rent are both high, so living here costs a good deal. Residents are somewhat older than in many places, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, summers are warm, and snow is rare.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, banks, insurance and property, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Arcadia are USC Arcadia Hospital, Arcadia Unified and Macy's. Commutes run fairly long, though a good number of people work from home, and unemployment is lower than it was a year ago.
Things to do. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away, as is the Norton Simon Museum, an art museum. For a bigger outing, Disneyland, an amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 19,227households
- 57%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 23%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 68° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Gabriel Fire Dept weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arcadia
- USC Arcadia HospitalGeneral hospital1,253FTE
- Arcadia UnifiedSchool district769FTE
- Positive InvestmentsCommercial property managing322
- Macy'sDepartment stores229
- SodexoFood service contractors160
- Rusnak Mercedes Benz ArcadiaAutomobile dealers, new only or new and used138
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores120
- SAICP HotelHotels111
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 17 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,743 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arcadia’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Arcadia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arcadia$1,375,605
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Arcadia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 31 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Arcadia22.21%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Arcadia31
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arcadia204
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Arcadia52
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Arcadia$1,501,298
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Arcadia100.76%
Zip codes with a Arcadia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arcadia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Arcadia
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91007 | Arcadia | 33,029 | $3,131 | $1,391,009 |
| 91006 | Arcadia | 31,582 | $3,816 | $1,366,715 |