Covina, California.
Typical home $791,019 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,598 (+3.1%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,128 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,184 +1%
- $784,836$791,019 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,560 +17%
- $674,459$791,019 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.
- Covina$4,152
- 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 Covina, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Covina, CA rose 3.1% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Covina runs $2,849/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,046 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,447 a month against $2,598 rent: a $4,152 mortgage payment, plus $448 property tax and $847 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Covina
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$5,447
- Renting$2,598
- Mortgage only$4,152
Property tax · $448/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 · $847/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 Covina, Los Angeles County, California
Covina is a city of 51,268 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $98,671 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 59% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 41% are rented. Unemployment in Covina was 4.5% 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 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. Covina is a city in Los Angeles County, in the San Gabriel Valley, with a median age slightly older than you might expect for a Southern California suburb. Incomes run above the county's, and a poverty rate that sits below what many places see. More households own their homes than rent, though typical home values and rents are both high. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and dry, with only a modest amount of rain across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, restaurants and hotels, and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Covina are Emanate Health Medical Center, the Covina-Valley Unified school district, and IKEA. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though jobs across the county have been roughly flat. Commutes are fairly long, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Covina sits within reach of many of the region's best-known sights, though each is a longer drive away. Disneyland is the closest big name for a day out, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens offers gardens and galleries to wander. For a ballgame, Dodger Stadium is a longer drive away as well.
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- 16,292households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 12%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 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 63°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pomona/fairplex weather station, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Covina
- Emanate Health Medical CenterGeneral hospital1,964FTE
- Covina-Valley UnifiedSchool district1,019FTE
- Aurora Charter Oak BHSPsychiatric hospital348FTE
- IKEA #413 CovinaFurniture stores336
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters321
- City of Covina315
- Andersen Commercial PlumbingPlumbing contractors300
- Superior GrocersGrocery store145
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 23 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,526 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (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 in parts of CovinaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Covina’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.
Covina home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Covina$791,019
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Covina listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 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.
- Covina25.24%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Covina20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Covina152
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Covina47
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Covina$782,279
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Covina101.26%
Zip codes with a Covina address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Covina — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Covina
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91722 | Covina | 35,099 | $2,461 | $753,105 |
| 91724 | Covina | 28,352 | $2,896 | $867,731 |
| 91723 | Covina | 17,733 | $2,320 | $794,703 |