Cudahy, California.
Typical home $689,632 (+2.9% in a year), asking rent $2,300 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,887 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,238 +3%
- $670,393$689,632 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $128,274 +23%
- $561,358$689,632 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.
- Cudahy$3,620
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Cudahy, CA rose 2.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cudahy, Los Angeles County, California
Cudahy is a city of 22,811 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $56,615 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 29% of its people live below the poverty line. 14% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 86% are rented. Unemployment in Cudahy was 5.3% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cudahy is a city in Los Angeles County with a young population, and residents are younger on average than people across much of the country. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than is typical. Very few homes are lived in by their owners, so most households rent, and rents and home values are both high. Few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Los Angeles County, some of the largest workplaces are Los Angeles Unified, the University of California-Los Angeles and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Unemployment has eased from a year earlier, commutes are fairly long, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Several stadiums are a short drive away, among them SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Dodger Stadium. Disneyland, an amusement park, is a longer drive. Winters are mild and summers warm, with little rain through the year.
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- 5,787households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 29%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 4%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, 7 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles UnifiedSchool district55,137FTE
- University of California-Los AngelesUniversity or college28,794
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity or college17,428
- Cedars-sinai Medical CenterGeneral hospital17,201FTE
- Ronald Reagan UclaGeneral hospital8,588FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing8,567
- Universal Studios HollywoodTheme parks, amusement7,857
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing7,577
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5,360 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,023,254 people in all across the county; Cudahy has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cudahy’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Cudahy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cudahy$689,632
- 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Cudahy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cudahy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.