Glendale, California.
Typical home $1,172,783 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $2,765 (+0.0%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,142 (+104%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,495 +1%
- $1,156,289$1,172,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $179,356 +18%
- $993,427$1,172,783 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.
- Glendale$6,156
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Glendale, CA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Glendale, CA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Glendale runs $5,311/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,504 in Jan 2025.
That is $8,076 a month against $2,765 rent: a $6,156 mortgage payment, plus $665 property tax and $1,256 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Glendale
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$8,076
- Renting$2,765
- Mortgage only$6,156
Property tax · $665/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 · $1,256/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 Glendale, Los Angeles County, California
Glendale is a city of 196,543 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $88,393 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 35% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 65% are rented. Unemployment in Glendale was 4.9% 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 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. Glendale is a large city in Los Angeles County, and its homes are mostly rented rather than owned, far more so than across the county as a whole. Household incomes sit a little below the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow and modest rainfall, while summers turn hot by August.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in Glendale are Adventist Health Glendale, Glendale Unified and Verdugo Hills Hospital. Many people work from home, and the typical commute is a fairly long one.
Things to do. Griffith Park is a large park a short drive away, and the Los Angeles Zoo is also close by. The Hollywood Bowl, a well-known outdoor theatre, is a short drive away too. For an afternoon at a museum, the Getty Center is a longer drive.
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- 72,573households
- 47%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 21%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 68° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 63°. About 16 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Burbank Valley Pump Plt weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Glendale
- Glendale UnifiedSchool district2,204FTE
- Adventist Health GlendaleGeneral hospital1,713FTE
- Disney Consumer Products Games PublishingGraphic art and related design services870
- Verdugo Hills HospitalGeneral hospital764FTE
- Glendale Memorial Hospital & HlthGeneral hospital754FTE
- Walt Disney Imagineering Research & DevelopmentEngineering research and development laboratories or services735
- J's Maintenance ServiceJanitorial services606
- City of GlendaleGeneral services departments, government537
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 86 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,734 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Glendale’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.
Glendale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Glendale$1,172,783
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Glendale listings, and the typical home goes pending in 24 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Glendale22.99%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Glendale24
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Glendale302
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Glendale98
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Glendale$1,181,850
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Glendale101.32%
Zip codes with a Glendale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Glendale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Glendale
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91205 | Glendale | 34,254 | $2,296 | $857,842 |
| 91206 | Glendale | 31,961 | $2,469 | $1,115,600 |
| 91202 | Glendale | 22,504 | $2,764 | $1,197,642 |
| 91201 | Glendale | 22,394 | $2,789 | $1,275,795 |
| 91204 | Glendale | 17,857 | $2,743 | $765,909 |
| 91203 | Glendale | 16,856 | $2,931 | $781,053 |
| 91208 | Glendale | 15,969 | $3,396 | $1,505,850 |
| 91207 | Glendale | 10,438 | $4,054 | $1,690,123 |
| 91210 | Glendale | 312 | $5,025 | $1,163,961 |