Placentia, California.
Typical home $1,101,368 (+3.0% in a year), asking rent $2,882 (+3.5%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$3,273 (+131%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $32,418 +3%
- $1,068,950$1,101,368 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $272,052 +33%
- $829,316$1,101,368 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.
- Placentia$5,781
- 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 Placentia, CA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Placentia, CA rose 3.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Placentia runs $4,682/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,831 in Jan 2025.
That is $7,563 a month against $2,882 rent: a $5,781 mortgage payment, plus $604 property tax and $1,179 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Placentia
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$7,563
- Renting$2,882
- Mortgage only$5,781
Property tax · $604/mo 0.66% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Orange County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $1,179/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 Placentia, Orange County, California
Placentia is a city of 51,824 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $115,929 a year and half less, against $116,289 across Orange County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Placentia was 4.6% 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. Placentia is a city in Orange County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values are high. Household incomes are close to the county's, and the population is of middle age, with a four-year degree held by a good share of adults. Winters are mild and summers warm and dry, with little or no snow and not much rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Placentia are Placentia Linda Community Hospital, Arlon Graphics, which makes pressure sensitive paper and tape, and Hartwell, which makes aircraft parts. Unemployment is about where it was a year ago, and the commute is typical of Southern California.
Things to do. Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm, both amusement parks, are a short drive away, as is Angel Stadium of Anaheim, a stadium. The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is in or beside town. For a longer outing, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a longer drive away.
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- 17,182households
- 44%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 15%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 71° and lows near 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anaheim weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Placentia
- Heritage PlasteringPlastering contractors621
- Placentia Linda Community HospitalGeneral hospital301FTE
- Arlon GraphicsPressure sensitive paper and tape made from purchased materials240
- HartwellAircraft auxiliary parts manufacturing228
- Roofing StandardsRoofing contractors132
- City Service ContractingPavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction115
- BiosealTonometers, medical, manufacturing113
- Straight Shot LogisticsDelivery service102
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 32 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,783 people in all. Hospitals come 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 in parts of PlacentiaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Placentia’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.
Placentia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Placentia$1,101,368
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Placentia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 16 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Placentia30.93%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Placentia16
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Placentia89
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Placentia32
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Placentia$1,109,903
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Placentia99.94%
Zip codes with a Placentia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Placentia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.