Lynwood, California.
Typical home $687,316 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $2,045 (+6.4%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,834 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,696 +3%
- $667,620$687,316 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $115,046 +20%
- $572,270$687,316 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.
- Lynwood$3,608
- 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 Lynwood, CA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lynwood, CA rose 6.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Lynwood runs $2,688/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,824 in Jan 2025.
That is $4,733 a month against $2,045 rent: a $3,608 mortgage payment, plus $390 property tax and $736 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lynwood
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$4,733
- Renting$2,045
- Mortgage only$3,608
Property tax · $390/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 · $736/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 Lynwood, Los Angeles County, California
Lynwood is a city of 67,265 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $74,844 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 18% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Lynwood was 5.6% 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 manufacturing.
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. Lynwood is a city in Los Angeles County with a younger population than many places, and more renters than owners. Incomes run below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people spend a good while getting to work, with very few working from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by manufacturing, shops and professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Lynwood are Lynwood Unified, the school district, along with IDC Logistics Intl. Lynwood, a bonded warehousing business, and the supermarket Northgate. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though it remains on the higher side.
Things to do. Several stadiums are a short drive away, including SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Dignity Health Sports Park. A longer drive brings you to Disneyland, an amusement park, or to the La Brea Tar Pits, a museum. Winters are mild and summers warm, and the area gets little rain, so outings are rarely troubled by the weather.
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- 15,206households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 4%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, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lynwood
- Lynwood UnifiedSchool district1,257FTE
- IDC Logistics Intl. LynwoodBonded warehousing, general merchandise362
- NorthgateSupermarket and other grocery retailers232
- PL Developments LynwoodPharmaceutical preparations manufacturing206
- Superior GrocersGrocery store181
- City of LynwoodPersonnel offices, government161
- Chedraui USASupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores116
- RelianceSteel merchant wholesalers116
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 25 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,193 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lynwood’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.
Lynwood home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lynwood$687,316
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 7 Lynwood 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.
- Lynwood14.85%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lynwood25
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lynwood9
Zip codes with a Lynwood address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lynwood — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.