Culver City, California.
Typical home $1,274,528 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $3,521 (+2.3%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,947 (+79%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $27,134 +2%
- $1,247,394$1,274,528 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $102,665 +9%
- $1,171,863$1,274,528 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.
- Culver City$6,690
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 41 years.
Typical home values in Culver City, CA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Culver City, CA rose 2.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Culver City runs $5,256/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,948 in Nov 2023.
That is $8,777 a month against $3,521 rent: a $6,690 mortgage payment, plus $723 property tax and $1,364 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Culver City
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$8,777
- Renting$3,521
- Mortgage only$6,690
Property tax · $723/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 · $1,364/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 Culver City, Los Angeles County, California
Culver City is a city of 40,779 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $117,389 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 55% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 45% are rented. Unemployment in Culver City 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 professional services, then schools and health care.
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. Culver City is a small city within Los Angeles County, with a population somewhat older than many places nearby. Household incomes run well above the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect in a big metropolitan area. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, and both home values and rents sit at the high end. Most adults hold a four-year degree, and winters are mild, with the coldest days still pleasantly cool, summers that are warm without being hot, almost no snow, and fairly little rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in media and telecoms, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Sony Pictures Entertainment, TikTok and Culver City Unified are among the largest workplaces in the city. A good number of residents work from home, and the typical commute is moderate for the region. Unemployment is a little lower than a year earlier.
Things to do. Several well-known places are a short drive away. The Getty Center is a museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is another, and the La Brea Tar Pits are a museum as well. For a night out, the Hollywood Bowl is a theatre a short drive off, and SoFi Stadium is a stadium within the same easy distance.
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- 17,529households
- 62%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 33%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 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 79° and lows near 64°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Culver City weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Culver City
- Sony Pictures EntertainmentFilms, motion picture production3,097
- TikTokSubscription video on demand services1,080
- Culver City UnifiedSchool district605FTE
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer559
- West Los Angeles CollegeUniversity or college548
- AvantStayTourist homes399
- TikTok USDS-Los AngelesSocial network sites, internet316
- TargetDiscount department stores301
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 52 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 9,204 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Culver City’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.
Culver City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Culver City$1,274,528
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Culver City listings, and the typical home goes pending in 44 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.
- Culver City28.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Culver City44
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Culver City115
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Culver City33
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Culver City$1,202,450
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Culver City102.51%
Zip codes with a Culver City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Culver City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Culver City
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90230 | Culver City | 31,009 | $3,363 | $1,063,490 |
| 90232 | Culver City | 16,554 | $3,683 | $1,736,924 |