Burbank, California.
Typical home $1,167,055 (+0.2% in a year), asking rent $2,752 (+1.3%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,026 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,517 +0%
- $1,164,537$1,167,055 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $125,823 +12%
- $1,041,232$1,167,055 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.
- Burbank$6,126
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 30 years.
Typical home values in Burbank, CA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Burbank, CA rose 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Burbank runs $5,284/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,761 in Jan 2025.
That is $8,037 a month against $2,752 rent: a $6,126 mortgage payment, plus $662 property tax and $1,249 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Burbank
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$8,037
- Renting$2,752
- Mortgage only$6,126
Property tax · $662/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 · $1,249/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 Burbank, Los Angeles County, California
Burbank is a city of 107,337 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $97,082 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 43% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 57% are rented. Unemployment in Burbank was 5.8% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, and its residents are somewhat older than is typical for a big city. Incomes run above the county's, and a large share of adults hold a four-year degree. More households rent than own their homes, and typical home values and rents are both high.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in media and telecoms, which fits a city that is home to film and television studios. The largest workplaces in Burbank include The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Studio Operations and Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. A good number of people work from home, and unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. Griffith Park, a large city park, is a short drive away, as is the Hollywood Bowl, an outdoor theatre for concerts. The La Brea Tar Pits, a museum, is also a short drive away, and the Getty Center, a museum, is a longer drive. Winters are mild, summers are warm, snow is rare, and the year brings only a modest amount of rain.
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- 42,995households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 30%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 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 16 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burbank Valley Pump Plt weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Burbank
- The Walt Disney CompanyMotion picture and video production and distribution5,609
- Warner Bros. Studio OperationsFacilities support services3,732
- The Walt Disney Company Studio EntertainmentFilms, motion picture production and distribution3,012
- The Walt Disney Company/ABC Media Networks - BurbankProgram producing, television1,947
- Providence St Joseph Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,499FTE
- Burbank UnifiedSchool district1,260FTE
- New York Film AcademyUniversity or college955
- City of BurbankPolice departments768
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 115 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 30,199 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burbank’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.
Burbank home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Burbank$1,167,055
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Burbank listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 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.
- Burbank22.66%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Burbank24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burbank159
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Burbank55
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Burbank$1,179,054
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Burbank100.68%
Zip codes with a Burbank address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burbank — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Burbank
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91505 | Burbank | 31,744 | $2,826 | $1,102,816 |
| 91504 | Burbank | 27,010 | $3,204 | $1,202,748 |
| 91501 | Burbank | 19,016 | $2,647 | $1,214,229 |
| 91506 | Burbank | 18,612 | $2,410 | $1,182,398 |
| 91502 | Burbank | 11,652 | $2,545 | $784,502 |