Bellflower, California.
Typical home $793,206 (+1.8% in a year), asking rent $2,221 (+1.9%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,119 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,903 +2%
- $779,303$793,206 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,846 +17%
- $678,360$793,206 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.
- Bellflower$4,163
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Bellflower, CA rose 1.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Bellflower, CA rose 1.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Bellflower runs $3,241/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,456 in Oct 2023.
That is $5,462 a month against $2,221 rent: a $4,163 mortgage payment, plus $450 property tax and $849 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Bellflower
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$5,462
- Renting$2,221
- Mortgage only$4,163
Property tax · $450/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 · $849/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 Bellflower, Los Angeles County, California
Bellflower is a city of 79,190 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $78,722 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 39% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 61% are rented. Unemployment in Bellflower was 5.1% 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. Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, and most households here rent rather than own, which is a different mix from what you would find across much of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and the typical home and the typical monthly rent are both costly. The population is on the younger side, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Bellflower are Bellflower Unified, the school district, and KFH - Downey, a general hospital. Superior Grocers is also on the list, and the daily trip to work takes a fair stretch of time for the typical commuter.
Things to do. Dignity Health Sports Park, a stadium, is a short drive away. Disneyland, the amusement park, and SoFi Stadium are both a longer drive away, as is the Hollywood Sign, a well-known tourist attraction. The weather is mild, with cool winters, warm summers and little rain across the year.
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- 23,802households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 10%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 Bellflower
- KFH - DowneyGeneral hospital1,671FTE
- Bellflower UnifiedSchool district917FTE
- Cerritos Vista Healthcare CenterConvalescent homes or convalescent hospitals171
- Superior GrocersGrocery store123
- Rose Villa HealthcareSkilled nursing facilities98
- BellflowerMail and parcel delivery79
- Smart & FinalSupermarkets and other grocery retailers55
- Biomat USABlood and organ banks54
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 704 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bellflower’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.
Bellflower home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bellflower$793,206
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Bellflower listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Bellflower18.73%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Bellflower50
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Bellflower17
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Bellflower address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bellflower — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.