Baldwin Park, California.
Typical home $708,074 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $2,959 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,900 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,501 +1%
- $703,573$708,074 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $115,692 +20%
- $592,382$708,074 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.
- Baldwin Park$3,717
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Baldwin Park, CA rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Baldwin Park, Los Angeles County, California
Baldwin Park is a city of 72,176 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $80,663 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in Baldwin Park was 4.8% 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 manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Baldwin Park is a city in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County. Household incomes run somewhat below the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than you might expect in a place with homes this costly. A majority of homes are lived in by their owners, though typical home values and rents are both high. Winters are mild, with little or no snow and modest rainfall, and summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels. Among the largest workplaces in town are Baldwin Park Unified, the school district, and KFH - Baldwin Park, a general hospital. UPS, the courier company, is another of the biggest employers. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, the daily commute is fairly long, and few people work from home.
Things to do. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away and the closest of the well-known places nearby. A longer drive brings you to Disneyland, the amusement park, and to the Norton Simon Museum, an art museum. For a day out in the city itself, the Getty Center is a museum that also takes a longer drive to reach.
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- 18,282households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 7%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Baldwin Park
- Baldwin Park UnifiedSchool district1,157FTE
- KFH - Baldwin ParkGeneral hospital1,121FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,080
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters455
- In-N-Out Burger - Baldwin ParkWarehouse construction373
- Public HealthHealth program administration310
- Kindred Hospital Baldwin ParkLong-term care hospital246FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores184
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 27 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,172 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Baldwin Park’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Baldwin Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Baldwin Park$708,074
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Baldwin Park listings — 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.
- Baldwin Park23.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Baldwin Park60
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Baldwin Park23
Zip codes with a Baldwin Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Baldwin Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.