Bradbury, California.
Typical home $2,171,576 (+4.4% in a year). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,904 (+76%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $91,149 +4%
- $2,080,427$2,171,576 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $170,089 +8%
- $2,001,487$2,171,576 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.
- Bradbury$11,398
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 42 years.
Typical home values in Bradbury, CA rose 4.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Bradbury, Los Angeles County, California
Bradbury is a city of 921 people in Los Angeles County. 93% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 7% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Bradbury is a very small city in the foothills of Los Angeles County, and nearly everyone who lives there owns their home. The population is older than in most places, and incomes and home values sit well above the county's, with fewer residents living in poverty than in the county at large. Winters are cool and summers are warm, with rain falling mostly in the cooler months, and the town is far more settled and quiet than its size and setting might suggest.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in banks, insurance and property. A large share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a good number work from home. Across Los Angeles County, some of the biggest workplaces are Los Angeles Unified, the University of California-Los Angeles and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the typical commute is a long one.
Things to do. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away, and it is the nearest of the well-known places on the list. A longer drive brings you to the Norton Simon Museum, an art museum, and to the Getty Center, another museum. Dodger Stadium, a longer drive away, is the choice for a ballgame.
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- 301households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 34 mintypical commute
- 21%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 55° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Wilson Cbs weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles UnifiedSchool district55,137FTE
- University of California-Los AngelesUniversity or college28,794
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity or college17,428
- Cedars-sinai Medical CenterGeneral hospital17,201FTE
- Ronald Reagan UclaGeneral hospital8,588FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing8,567
- Universal Studios HollywoodTheme parks, amusement7,857
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing7,577
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5,360 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,023,254 people in all across the county; Bradbury has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- WildfireVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Bradbury’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.
Bradbury home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Bradbury$2,171,576
- 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.
- Bradbury16
Zip codes with a Bradbury address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Bradbury — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.