Compton, California.
Typical home $638,224 (+2.6% in a year), asking rent $2,314 (+4.0%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,711 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,345 +3%
- $621,879$638,224 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $100,655 +19%
- $537,569$638,224 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.
- Compton$3,350
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Compton, CA rose 2.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Compton, CA rose 4.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Compton runs $2,080/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,230 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,395 a month against $2,314 rent: a $3,350 mortgage payment, plus $362 property tax and $683 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Compton
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$4,395
- Renting$2,314
- Mortgage only$3,350
Property tax · $362/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 · $683/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 Compton, Los Angeles County, California
Compton is a city of 95,740 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $78,465 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 56% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 44% are rented. Unemployment in Compton was 5.7% 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. Compton is a city within Los Angeles County, with a population on the younger side. Incomes run below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than most would expect to find, though most homes are lived in by their owners. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, transport and warehousing, and retail. Among the largest workplaces in Compton are Compton Unified, Walmart and Compton College. Unemployment is lower than it was a year earlier.
Things to do. Dignity Health Sports Park, a stadium, is in or beside town. A short drive away are SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, both stadiums. Further afield by a longer drive is Disneyland, an amusement park. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, summers are warm, and the year brings little rain.
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- 24,011households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 5%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 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 79° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Compton
- Compton UnifiedSchool district1,758FTE
- Ralphs Grocery CompanyGeneral warehouse and storage711
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters417
- Compton CollegeTwo-year college406
- American Medical Response376
- Yamato Transport U.S.AAgents, shipping316
- Southern California GAS CompanyNatural gas distribution srv.214
- FedEx 201 W MANVILLE STTransportation air cargo174
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 41 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,323 people in all. School districts come 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 Compton’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.
Compton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Compton$638,224
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Compton listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 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.
- Compton15.66%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Compton22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Compton126
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Compton43
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Compton$638,219
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Compton101.83%
Zip codes with a Compton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Compton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Compton
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90221 | Compton | 50,659 | $2,023 | $643,639 |
| 90220 | Compton | 48,354 | $2,446 | $640,240 |
| 90222 | Compton | 32,340 | $2,000 | $624,022 |