Duarte, California.
Typical home $784,753 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,779 (-1.3%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,051 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,923 +1%
- $778,830$784,753 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $107,079 +16%
- $677,674$784,753 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.
- Duarte$4,119
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Duarte, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Duarte, CA fell 1.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Duarte runs $2,625/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,729 in Jan 2025.
That is $5,404 a month against $2,779 rent: a $4,119 mortgage payment, plus $445 property tax and $840 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Duarte
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$5,404
- Renting$2,779
- Mortgage only$4,119
Property tax · $445/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 · $840/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 Duarte, Los Angeles County, California
Duarte is a city of 21,727 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $105,483 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% 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 professional services.
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. Duarte is a small city in Los Angeles County with an older population than many places, and household incomes above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, though typical home values and rents are both high. Winters are mild and summers are warm, with a fair amount of rain across the year and little in the way of snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in professional and business services, shops, and restaurants and hotels. The largest workplaces in Duarte include City of Hope National Medical Center, the Duarte Unified school district, and Walmart. A typical commute is fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden, is a short drive away. For museums, the Norton Simon Museum is a longer drive. Disneyland, the amusement park, is also a longer drive.
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- 7,515households
- 34%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 17%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 55° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 64°. About 32 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Wilson Cbs weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Duarte
- City of Hope National Medical CTRGeneral hospital5,043FTE
- Duarte UnifiedSchool district336FTE
- Xanitos EVS at City of Hope HospitalJanitorial282
- WalmartDiscount department stores261
- TargetDiscount department stores195
- Human Good Corporate Support Center So CalNursing homes135
- JDM DeliveriesCourier services90
- California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley DistrictSchool district88FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,262 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
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of DuarteRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Duarte’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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.
Duarte home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Duarte$784,753
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Duarte listings — 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.
- Duarte30.83%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Duarte34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Duarte11
Zip codes with a Duarte address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Duarte — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.