La Verne, California.
Typical home $934,216 (+1.4% in a year), asking rent $3,008 (+0.7%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,560 (+109%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,035 +1%
- $921,181$934,216 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $157,514 +20%
- $776,702$934,216 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 Verne$4,903
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in La Verne, CA rose 1.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in La Verne, CA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in La Verne runs $3,425/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,685 in Jan 2025.
That is $6,433 a month against $3,008 rent: a $4,903 mortgage payment, plus $530 property tax and $1,000 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — La Verne
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$6,433
- Renting$3,008
- Mortgage only$4,903
Property tax · $530/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 · $1,000/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 Verne, Los Angeles County, California
La Verne is a city of 31,334 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $103,761 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in La Verne was 4.7% 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. La Verne is a city in Los Angeles County where residents are older than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Typical home values and rents are high, and the people who live here tend to be settled rather than just passing through.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, or in shops. Some of the largest workplaces in La Verne itself are the University of La Verne, Gilead Sciences and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, a protected area, and the California Botanic Garden are both a short drive away, which makes for easy days outdoors. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a longer drive away and combines a botanical garden with a museum. Disneyland, an amusement park, is also a longer drive. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are hot, and rain is scarce over the year.
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- 11,517households
- 42%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 33 mintypical commute
- 24%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 67° and lows near 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 63°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pomona/fairplex weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in La Verne
- University of La VerneUniversity or college1,131
- Gilead SciencesPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing553
- Metropolitan Water District of Southern CaliforniaWater treatment and distribution396
- TargetDiscount department stores194
- IPS ServicesGroup homes, intellectual and developmental disability170
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores110
- AmazonSupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores102
- Haaker Equipment CompanyTrucks, road, merchant wholesalers97
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 21 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,366 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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 La Verne’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.
La Verne home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- La Verne$934,216
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 La Verne listings, and the typical home goes pending in 20 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.
- La Verne26.88%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- La Verne20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- La Verne70
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- La Verne26
Zip codes with a La Verne address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls La Verne — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.