Lawndale, California.
Typical home $771,679 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $2,692 (+5.9%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,870 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,233 +0%
- $769,445$771,679 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,267 +10%
- $703,412$771,679 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.
- Lawndale$4,050
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Lawndale, CA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lawndale, CA rose 5.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lawndale runs $2,622/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,123 in Oct 2023.
That is $5,314 a month against $2,692 rent: a $4,050 mortgage payment, plus $437 property tax and $826 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lawndale
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$5,314
- Renting$2,692
- Mortgage only$4,050
Property tax · $437/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 · $826/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 Lawndale, Los Angeles County, California
Lawndale is a city of 31,807 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $85,441 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 37% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 63% are rented. Unemployment in Lawndale was 4.3% 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 restaurants and hotels.
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. Lawndale is a small city within Los Angeles County, with a median age a little younger than middle age. Incomes run somewhat below the county's, and most households rent rather than own their homes. Winters are mild and summers warm, with little rain through the year and no real snow to speak of.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing and retail. Among the largest workplaces in town are Lawndale Elementary Schools, Chedraui USA and Environmental Charter High - Lawndale District. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than is typical, and most people commute to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. For a day out, SoFi Stadium is a short drive away, as are Dignity Health Sports Park and BMO Stadium, all of them stadiums. A longer drive brings you to the Getty Center, a museum, and to Disneyland, an amusement park.
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- 9,738households
- 21%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 7%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 66° and lows near 49°; warmest in August, with highs near 79° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lawndale
- Lawndale Elementary SchoolsSchool district574FTE
- Chedraui USASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores89
- Environmental Charter High - Lawndale DistrictSchool district61FTE
- Social Vocational ServicesActivity centers for disabled persons, the elderly, and persons diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities39
- Smart & FinalSupermarkets and other grocery retailers37
- LawndaleMail and parcel delivery26
- DCS Testing & EquipmentFire sprinkler contractor24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 215 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of LawndaleRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lawndale’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.
Lawndale home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lawndale$771,679
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Lawndale 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.
- Lawndale26.93%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lawndale23
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lawndale6
Zip codes with a Lawndale address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lawndale — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.