Orange, California.
Typical home $1,120,386 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $3,037 (+3.7%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,324 (+130%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,943 +3%
- $1,087,442$1,120,386 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $275,210 +33%
- $845,175$1,120,386 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.
- Orange$5,881
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Orange, CA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Orange, CA rose 3.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Orange runs $4,657/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,787 in Jan 2025.
That is $7,694 a month against $3,037 rent: a $5,881 mortgage payment, plus $614 property tax and $1,199 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Orange
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$7,694
- Renting$3,037
- Mortgage only$5,881
Property tax · $614/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Orange County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,199/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 Orange, Orange County, California
Orange is a city of 139,911 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $117,113 a year and half less, against $116,289 across Orange County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 57% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 43% are rented. Unemployment in Orange was 4.3% in August 2026, and Orange 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. Orange is a large city in Orange County, with a population that sits a little below the middle of the working-age years. Household incomes are close to the county's, and homes here cost a great deal, with rents high as well. More people own the homes they live in than rent, though renters are a large part of the community. Winters are mild and rarely bring any snow, summers are warm, and the rain that falls over the year is modest.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and many more in professional and business services, restaurants and hotels, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Orange are UCI Medical Center, Children's Hospital of Orange County and Chapman University. Jobs across the county have barely grown over the past year, and a fair number of people in town work from home. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Things to do. Disneyland is a short drive away, and Disney California Adventure sits beside it. Knott's Berry Farm is another amusement park a short drive off. Angel Stadium of Anaheim is in or beside town, so baseball is close at hand.
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- 45,329households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 18%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 68° and lows near 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 65°. About 13 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Santa Ana Fire Station weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange
- UCI Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,882FTE
- Children's Hospital of Orange CountChildren's hospital3,786FTE
- Orange UnifiedSchool district2,475FTE
- Chapman UniversityUniversity or college2,358
- St. Joseph Hospital of OrangeGeneral hospital2,185FTE
- Maxim Healthcare ServicesHome health care agencies830
- Santiago Canyon CollegeTwo-year college734
- City of Orange685
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 142 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,088 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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 Orange’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 Orange County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Orange home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Orange$1,120,386
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Orange listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- Orange26.84%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Orange16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Orange234
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Orange88
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Orange$1,146,977
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Orange100.20%
Zip codes with a Orange address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Orange — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Orange
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92867 | Orange | 44,726 | $3,264 | $1,230,768 |
| 92869 | Orange | 36,271 | $3,684 | $1,197,328 |
| 92868 | Orange | 26,380 | $2,997 | $896,647 |
| 92865 | Orange | 20,589 | $2,890 | $1,055,752 |
| 92866 | Orange | 15,331 | $2,900 | $1,114,000 |