El Segundo, California.
Typical home $1,719,205 (+3.9% in a year), asking rent $3,253 (+3.3%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,605 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $64,773 +4%
- $1,654,432$1,719,205 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $224,231 +15%
- $1,494,974$1,719,205 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.
- El Segundo$9,024
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in El Segundo, CA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in El Segundo, CA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in El Segundo runs $8,586/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $8,780 in Oct 2023.
That is $11,839 a month against $3,253 rent: a $9,024 mortgage payment, plus $975 property tax and $1,841 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — El Segundo
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$11,839
- Renting$3,253
- Mortgage only$9,024
Property tax · $975/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 · $1,841/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 El Segundo, Los Angeles County, California
El Segundo is a city of 17,272 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $150,737 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 5% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% 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 professional services, then schools and health care.
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. El Segundo is a small city in Los Angeles County where household incomes run well above the county's, and where far fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the region. Most homes are rented rather than owned, and both home values and rents sit high. Adults here are very well educated, with most holding a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers warm but not hot, and the rainfall is light.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, and in media and telecoms. Some of the biggest employers in town are in aerospace and defense, including Raytheon, The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Systems. A good share of residents work from home, and the typical commute is a modest one.
Things to do. SoFi Stadium is a stadium a short drive away, and Dignity Health Sports Park, also a stadium, is a short drive away as well. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Getty Center, a museum, and to Disneyland, an amusement park.
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- 7,437households
- 63%of adults have a degree
- 5%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 35%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 February, with highs near 66° and lows near 50°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Los Angeles International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in El Segundo
- Raytheon_El Segundo_CA4,523
- The Boeing CompanyGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing3,430
- OutsourceTemporary staffing services2,345
- Northrop Grumman SystemsAircraft manufacturing1,699
- KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. - El SegundoAnesthesia apparatus manufacturing1,287
- Chevron Products CompanyOil refineries1,198
- Tower EV - DouglasCar pool operation1,100
- Worldwide Flight Services LAX - GH PAXAirport passenger screen security services1,075
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 63 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 26,919 people in all. 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 El Segundo’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.
El Segundo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- El Segundo$1,719,205
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 El Segundo 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.
- El Segundo12.57%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- El Segundo32
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- El Segundo11
Zip codes with a El Segundo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls El Segundo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.