Pasadena, California.
Typical home $1,186,459 (+0.7% in a year), asking rent $3,010 (+1.4%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,106 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $8,318 +1%
- $1,178,142$1,186,459 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $179,555 +18%
- $1,006,905$1,186,459 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.
- Pasadena$6,227
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Pasadena, CA rose 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Pasadena, CA rose 1.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Pasadena runs $5,160/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $5,466 in Jan 2025.
That is $8,170 a month against $3,010 rent: a $6,227 mortgage payment, plus $673 property tax and $1,270 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Pasadena
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$8,170
- Renting$3,010
- Mortgage only$6,227
Property tax · $673/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 · $1,270/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 Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
Pasadena is a city of 138,699 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $105,192 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 42% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 58% are rented. Unemployment in Pasadena was 4.5% 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 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. Pasadena is a city with a mature, settled feel, where residents tend to be middle-aged and most households rent rather than own. Incomes run above the county's, and a good share of adults hold a four-year degree, though some residents still live below the poverty line. Homes and rents are expensive, and winters are mild, with little or no snow, hot summer afternoons, and modest rainfall through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, professional and business services, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and shops. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Huntington Hospital, Pasadena Unified and Pasadena City College. Unemployment has eased compared with a year ago, and a good number of residents work from home, while the typical commute is of moderate length.
Things to do. The Norton Simon Museum and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens are both in or beside town, the first an art museum and the second a botanical garden with galleries and a library. Dodger Stadium is a short drive away for baseball, and Disneyland, the amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 57,425households
- 56%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 28%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 67° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 91° and lows near 63°. About 20 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pasadena weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pasadena
- ACCO Engineered SystemsMechanical contractors6,169
- Huntington HospitalGeneral hospital2,854FTE
- City of PasadenaGeneral services departments, government2,487
- Pasadena UnifiedSchool district1,495FTE
- Pasadena City CollegeTwo-year college1,428
- Art Center College of DesignUniversity or college872
- Dewey Pest ControlPest control services562
- Aurora Las Encinas BHSPsychiatric hospital538FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 92 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 18,583 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pasadena’s 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.
Pasadena home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pasadena$1,186,459
- 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 5 Pasadena listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 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.
- Pasadena21.46%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Pasadena26
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Pasadena380
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Pasadena126
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Pasadena$1,185,194
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Pasadena102.85%
Zip codes with a Pasadena address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pasadena — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Pasadena
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91104 | Pasadena | 35,937 | $2,722 | $1,206,489 |
| 91107 | Pasadena | 32,316 | $3,209 | $1,303,322 |
| 91103 | Pasadena | 25,142 | $3,592 | $1,072,392 |
| 91106 | Pasadena | 23,910 | $2,840 | $905,392 |
| 91101 | Pasadena | 21,165 | $2,909 | $761,768 |
| 91105 | Pasadena | 12,531 | $3,196 | $1,782,490 |