Commerce, California.
Typical home $694,535 (+1.7% in a year). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,813 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,365 +2%
- $683,171$694,535 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $104,318 +18%
- $590,217$694,535 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.
- Commerce$3,645
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Commerce, CA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Commerce, Los Angeles County, California
Commerce is a city of 12,378 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $77,064 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% 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 shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Commerce is a small city in Los Angeles County, with a population younger than many older homeowners might expect. Incomes here run below the county's, and a good share of residents live below the poverty line. More homes are rented than owned, though owners are not far behind, and only a small share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Among the biggest workplaces in Commerce are Mission Foods Olympic, which makes tortillas, the courier company Ontrac, and the County of Los Angeles Child Support Services Department. The typical commute is a moderate one, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. Several stadiums are a short drive away, including Dodger Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a short drive away as well. Disneyland, an amusement park, is a longer drive. Winters are mild, summers are warm, and the year brings little rain.
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- 3,307households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 27 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 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 Commerce
- County of Los Angeles - Child Support Services DepartmentParenting support services1,206
- OntracCouriers and express delivery services1,001
- Parsec - HobartSwitching services, railroad777
- Mission Foods OlympicTortillas manufacturing579
- UNISERVE Facilities ServicesBuilding cleaning services, janitorial555
- Breakthru Beverage California - CommerceWine and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers503
- Revolution FoodsNoodles, fried, manufacturing500
- City of CommerceCity and town managers' offices361
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 85 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 13,589 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Commerce’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Commerce home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Commerce$694,535
- 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.
- Commerce10
Zip codes with a Commerce address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Commerce — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.