Rosemead, California.
Typical home $889,995 (+0.8% in a year), asking rent $2,755 (+0.0%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,348 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,256 +1%
- $882,738$889,995 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $145,454 +20%
- $744,541$889,995 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.
- Rosemead$4,671
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 19 years.
Typical home values in Rosemead, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Rosemead, CA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Rosemead runs $3,374/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,608 in Oct 2023.
That is $6,129 a month against $2,755 rent: a $4,671 mortgage payment, plus $505 property tax and $953 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Rosemead
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$6,129
- Renting$2,755
- Mortgage only$4,671
Property tax · $505/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 · $953/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 Rosemead, Los Angeles County, California
Rosemead is a city of 51,185 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $73,566 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 47% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 53% are rented. Unemployment in Rosemead 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 restaurants and hotels.
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. Rosemead is a city in Los Angeles County where the typical resident is a little older than in many places, and where incomes run below the county's. Fewer households own their homes than rent them, and a typical home here costs a good deal, as does a typical month's rent. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in December still cool rather than freezing, summers are warm, snow is rare, and the yearly rainfall is modest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, manufacturing, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Rosemead are Southern California Edison, Walmart and the Garvey Elementary Schools district. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in many places, and most people commute by a trip of moderate length, with only a small number working from home.
Things to do. A short drive away is The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden with art and library collections, and the Norton Simon Museum, an art museum. Dodger Stadium, a baseball stadium, is also a short drive. Disneyland, the amusement park, is a longer drive away.
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- 14,434households
- 22%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 27 mintypical commute
- 9%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 68° and lows near 45°; warmest in August, with highs near 88° and lows near 66°. About 16 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the San Gabriel Fire Dept weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Rosemead
- Southern California EdisonUtility company1,958
- Southern California EdisonUtility company1,230
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters616
- Garvey Elementary SchoolsSchool district476FTE
- Southern California EdisonUtility company476
- Southern California EdisonUtility company423
- City of RosemeadGeneral public administration337
- Rosemead Elementary SchoolsSchool district262FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 18 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,059 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Rosemead’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.
Rosemead home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Rosemead$889,995
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Rosemead listings — 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.
- Rosemead21.28%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Rosemead58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Rosemead16
Zip codes with a Rosemead address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Rosemead — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.