Bell, California.
Typical home $689,657 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $2,550 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,874 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $17,979 +3%
- $671,679$689,657 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $123,499 +22%
- $566,159$689,657 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.
- Bell$3,620
- 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 Bell, CA rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bell, Los Angeles County, California
Bell is a city of 33,559 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $61,020 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 26% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 74% are rented. Unemployment in Bell was 5.3% 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bell is a city in Los Angeles County with a fairly young population compared with many places older homeowners may know. Most households rent rather than own, and incomes run well below the county's. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in December still cool rather than freezing, and summers are warm, peaking in August. Rain and melted snow add up to a modest amount over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in shops and in the building trades. Among the largest workplaces in Bell are UPS, Helix Electric and the County of Los Angeles. Few adults have a four-year degree, and very few work from home, so most people commute to a job, and the typical trip is a fairly long one. Unemployment has eased a little compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Several stadiums are a short drive away, including Dodger Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which suit anyone who likes a ballgame or a big event. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Disneyland, the amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 9,171households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%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 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Bell
- Los Angeles NDCMail and parcel delivery783
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services762
- BradyPLUS413
- FamClothing, fur, manufacturing300
- Helix ElectricElectrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work245
- County of Los AngelesFamily social service agencies222
- LAXC Custom Building ProductsManufacturing164
- NorthgateSupermarket and other grocery retailers153
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 16 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,581 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bell’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.
Bell home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bell$689,657
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bell address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bell — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.