La Mirada, California.
Typical home $880,279 (+2.2% in a year), asking rent $3,191 (+3.7%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,399 (+108%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,854 +2%
- $861,425$880,279 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $143,210 +19%
- $737,070$880,279 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.
- La Mirada$4,620
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in La Mirada, CA rose 2.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in La Mirada, CA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in La Mirada runs $2,871/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,108 in Nov 2024.
That is $6,062 a month against $3,191 rent: a $4,620 mortgage payment, plus $499 property tax and $942 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — La Mirada
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$6,062
- Renting$3,191
- Mortgage only$4,620
Property tax · $499/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 · $942/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 La Mirada, Los Angeles County, California
La Mirada is a city of 48,008 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $109,288 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 76% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 24% are rented. Unemployment in La Mirada 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 shops.
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. La Mirada is a city in Los Angeles County where most homes are lived in by their owners, a larger share than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run higher than the county's, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than one might expect for the area. The population skews somewhat older than a typical American city, and many adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with cool days and chilly nights, summers are warm, and the year brings very little rain.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in La Mirada are UPS, Biola University and US Foods Los Angeles. Commutes are on the long side, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Knott's Berry Farm are all a short drive away, which makes amusement parks the nearest outing for most residents. For a longer drive, the Getty Center is a museum with a wide reputation, and Dodger Stadium is a ballpark many visitors know well.
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- 15,304households
- 41%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 14%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 46°; warmest in August, with highs near 87° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fullerton Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Mirada
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,256
- Biola UniversityUniversity or college1,063
- US Foods Los AngelesFood distribution757
- WeeeCold storage warehousing604
- Living Spaces569
- Kindred Hospital La MiradaLong-term care hospital526FTE
- Tomarco Contractor SpecialtiesFasteners merchant wholesalers340
- City of La MiradaGeneral public administration289
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,148 people in all. Colleges come 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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of La MiradaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in La Mirada’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.
La Mirada home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Mirada$880,279
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 La Mirada listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 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.
- La Mirada27.28%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- La Mirada19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Mirada78
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Mirada32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- La Mirada$896,431
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- La Mirada100.77%
Zip codes with a La Mirada address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Mirada — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.