Artesia, California.
Typical home $863,822 (+3.1% in a year), asking rent $2,549 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,408 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,796 +3%
- $838,026$863,822 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $176,262 +26%
- $687,560$863,822 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.
- Artesia$4,534
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Artesia, CA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Artesia, Los Angeles County, California
Artesia is a city of 16,395 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $101,004 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Artesia is a small city in Los Angeles County, with a median age a little older than many places and incomes above the county's. Owners and renters share the streets in roughly equal measure, and typical home values and rents run high. Winters are mild and summers warm, with little rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, manufacturing, and restaurants and hotels also employing many. Within the city, some of the larger workplaces are Artesia Christian Home, a skilled nursing facility, Sevita, a residential care provider, and Founder's House of Hope, an assisted-living home. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement park, is a short drive away. Disneyland, another amusement park, and Getty Center, a museum, are a longer drive away. For a day out, they offer rides and shows on one hand and art and gardens on the other.
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- 4,513households
- 32%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 13%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 67° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Beach Daugherty Field weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Artesia
- Artesia Christian HomeSkilled nursing facilities199
- ArtesiaMail and parcel delivery73
- 7 Leaves ArtesiaBeverage bars, nonalcoholic, fixed location35
- SevitaOther residential care facilities27
- Founder's House of HopeAssisted-living facilities with on-site nursing facilities24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 358 people in all. 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Artesia’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.
Artesia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Artesia$863,822
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Artesia15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Artesia6
Zip codes with a Artesia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Artesia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.