Carson, California.
Typical home $787,368 (+1.1% in a year), asking rent $2,909 (+1.7%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,078 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,750 +1%
- $778,618$787,368 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $114,693 +17%
- $672,675$787,368 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.
- Carson$4,133
- 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 Carson, CA rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Asking rents in Carson, CA rose 1.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Carson runs $2,513/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,844 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,422 a month against $2,909 rent: a $4,133 mortgage payment, plus $446 property tax and $843 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Carson
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$5,422
- Renting$2,909
- Mortgage only$4,133
Property tax · $446/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 · $843/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 Carson, Los Angeles County, California
Carson is a city of 95,558 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $108,703 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Carson was 5.2% 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 transport and warehouses.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Carson is a city in Los Angeles County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run higher than across the county. Typical home values and rents are both high, so the town is not a cheap one to settle in. The weather is mild all year, with cool winters, warm summers, almost no snow and little rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. California State University-Dominguez Hills, the City of Carson and Yusen Logistics are among the largest workplaces in town. Fewer than most adults here hold a four-year degree compared with what many might expect, and most people travel to a job rather than working from home.
Things to do. Dignity Health Sports Park, a stadium in or beside town, is the closest place for a game or a show, and SoFi Stadium is a short drive away. For a day out, Disneyland, the amusement park, is a longer drive, as is the Getty Center, a museum. Most of the region's big sights are a longer drive from town.
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- 26,974households
- 29%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 9%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 66° and lows near 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 78° and lows near 62°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Torrance Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Carson
- California State University-Dominguez HillsUniversity or college1,770
- Lakeshore Learning MaterialsCorporate offices896
- City of Carson725
- LacmtaMixed mode transit systems651
- Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc - DominguezGeneral warehousing and storage648
- FedExCourier and express delivery services638
- Cedarlane Natural FoodsPrepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale575
- Safran CABIN - Water & Waste SystemsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing556
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 144 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,764 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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
- EarthquakesVery 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 Carson’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.
Carson home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Carson$787,368
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Carson listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Carson19.08%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Carson15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Carson86
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Carson34
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Carson$796,264
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Carson100.44%
Zip codes with a Carson address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Carson — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Carson
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90745 | Carson | 57,397 | $2,836 | $760,773 |
| 90746 | Carson | 27,091 | $3,650 | $824,075 |