Los Alamitos, California.
Typical home $1,568,950 (+5.5% in a year), asking rent $3,143 (+4.3%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$4,640 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $81,568 +5%
- $1,487,382$1,568,950 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $367,301 +31%
- $1,201,648$1,568,950 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.
- Los Alamitos$8,235
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Los Alamitos, CA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Los Alamitos, CA rose 4.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Los Alamitos runs $7,631/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $7,744 in Jan 2025.
That is $10,774 a month against $3,143 rent: a $8,235 mortgage payment, plus $860 property tax and $1,680 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Los Alamitos
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$10,774
- Renting$3,143
- Mortgage only$8,235
Property tax · $860/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Orange County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,680/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 Los Alamitos, Orange County, California
Los Alamitos is a city of 11,780 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $97,155 a year and half less, against $116,289 across Orange County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than 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. Los Alamitos is a small city in Orange County, with a population that suits a place where neighbors tend to know one another. More households rent here than across much of the county, and incomes run below the county's, though the typical home is still expensive. Adults here are fairly likely to hold a four-year degree, and the typical age sits in the middle of the range.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Los Alamitos are Epson America's headquarters, the Los Alamitos Unified school district and Los Alamitos Medical Center. Commutes are fairly long, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Several amusement parks are a short drive away, including Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Knott's Berry Farm. For a bigger outing, Los Angeles and its stadiums, museums and landmarks are a longer drive. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, summers are warm, and the year is fairly dry, which makes getting out easy most of the year.
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- 4,414households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 1,663,220 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 67° and lows near 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Beach Daugherty Field weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Los Alamitos
- Epson America Inc., HDQCorporate offices833
- Los Alamitos UnifiedSchool district814FTE
- Arrowhead ProductsAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing713
- Los Alamitos Medical CTRGeneral hospital709FTE
- Mittera CaliforniaPrint shops, lithographic215
- Touro University WorldwideUniversity or college213
- Alamitos West Health and RehabilitationSkilled nursing facilities205
- Recon Refractory & Construction, Inc Corporate OfficeStructural steel erecting or iron work contractors80
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,637 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Los Alamitos’ 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 Orange County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Los Alamitos home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Los Alamitos$1,568,950
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Los Alamitos 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.
- Los Alamitos35.97%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Los Alamitos34
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Los Alamitos11
Zip codes with a Los Alamitos address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Los Alamitos — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.