Manhattan Beach, California.
Typical home $3,353,430 (+9.4% in a year), asking rent $6,406 (+9.0%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$9,021 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $288,064 +9%
- $3,065,366$3,353,430 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $644,553 +24%
- $2,708,876$3,353,430 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.
- Manhattan Beach$17,601
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Manhattan Beach, CA rose 9.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Manhattan Beach, CA rose 9.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Manhattan Beach runs $16,687/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $16,947 in Oct 2023.
That is $23,093 a month against $6,406 rent: a $17,601 mortgage payment, plus $1,901 property tax and $3,590 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Manhattan Beach
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$23,093
- Renting$6,406
- Mortgage only$17,601
Property tax · $1,901/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 · $3,590/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 Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles County, California
Manhattan Beach is a city of 35,506 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $204,306 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. 65% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 35% are rented. Unemployment in Manhattan Beach was 4.1% in August 2026, and Los Angeles County had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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. Manhattan Beach is a coastal city in Los Angeles County where household incomes run well above the county's and most homes are lived in by their owners. Home values and rents are high, and poverty is rare. Residents are somewhat older than you might expect of a beach town, and nearly all adults have a four-year degree. Winters are mild and summers are warm, with little rain through the year.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in media and telecoms. A good number work from home, and the typical commute is a moderate one. Among the largest workplaces in town are Skechers, Manhattan Beach Unified School District and Target. Unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier.
Things to do. SoFi Stadium, a stadium, is a short drive away, as is Dignity Health Sports Park, another stadium. Farther off, a longer drive away, are the Getty Center, a museum, and Disneyland, an amusement park.
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- 13,369households
- 79%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 39%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 February, with highs near 66° and lows near 50°; warmest in August, with highs near 77° and lows near 65°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Los Angeles International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Manhattan Beach
- SkechersAthletic shoe stores2,625
- Manhattan Beach UnifiedSchool district682FTE
- TargetDiscount department stores308
- Westward Hospitality Management LLC - Full ServiceAlpine skiing facilities with accommodations -i.e., ski resort222
- Nowhere Manhattan BeachGrocery stores182
- RinvioEmployment agencies130
- Trader Joe's 0106 Manhattan BeachGrocery store130
- Lebo AutomotiveNew car dealers123
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,440 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 Manhattan BeachRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Manhattan Beach’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.
Manhattan Beach home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Manhattan Beach$3,353,430
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Manhattan Beach 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.
- Manhattan Beach22.53%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Manhattan Beach20
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Manhattan Beach73
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Manhattan Beach25
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Manhattan Beach$3,266,226
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Manhattan Beach address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Manhattan Beach — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.