Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Typical home $2,737,387 (+4.2% in a year), asking rent $6,933 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,354 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $111,050 +4%
- $2,626,336$2,737,387 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $470,218 +21%
- $2,267,168$2,737,387 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.
- Palos Verdes Estates$14,368
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Palos Verdes Estates, CA rose 4.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County, California
Palos Verdes Estates is a city of 13,347 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $242,014 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 3% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Los Angeles County was 4.5% in September 2026, and the 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Palos Verdes Estates is a small city in Los Angeles County where the people tend to be older than in most places, and where nearly everyone who lives here owns their home. Incomes are far higher than across the county, very few households live below the poverty line, and most adults hold a four-year degree. Homes and rents here are among the most expensive anywhere. Winters are mild and summers stay comfortably warm, and not much rain falls over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, and in manufacturing. Across Los Angeles County, some of the largest workplaces are Los Angeles Unified, the University of California-Los Angeles and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Commutes are fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. For a day out, the Getty Center is a well-known art museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the La Brea Tar Pits are more museums in the county. Disneyland is an amusement park. All of these are a longer drive away.
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- 4,946households
- 80%of adults have a degree
- 3%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 26%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 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 76° and lows near 63°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Redondo Beach weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles UnifiedSchool district55,137FTE
- University of California-Los AngelesUniversity or college28,794
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity or college17,428
- Cedars-sinai Medical CenterGeneral hospital17,201FTE
- Ronald Reagan UclaGeneral hospital8,588FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing8,567
- Universal Studios HollywoodTheme parks, amusement7,857
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing7,577
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5,360 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,023,254 people in all across the county; Palos Verdes Estates has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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 Palos Verdes Estates’ 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 Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Palos Verdes Estates home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Palos Verdes Estates$2,737,387
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Palos Verdes Estates listings, and the typical home goes pending in 23 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.
- Palos Verdes Estates19.57%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Palos Verdes Estates51
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Palos Verdes Estates12
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Palos Verdes Estates address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Palos Verdes Estates — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.