San Dimas, California.
Typical home $902,110 (+0.0% in a year), asking rent $2,761 (+1.6%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,451 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $33 +0%
- $902,077$902,110 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $147,375 +20%
- $754,735$902,110 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.
- San Dimas$4,735
- 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 San Dimas, CA rose 0.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in San Dimas, CA rose 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in San Dimas runs $3,451/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,609 in Nov 2024.
That is $6,212 a month against $2,761 rent: a $4,735 mortgage payment, plus $511 property tax and $966 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — San Dimas
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$6,212
- Renting$2,761
- Mortgage only$4,735
Property tax · $511/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 · $966/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 San Dimas, Los Angeles County, California
San Dimas is a city of 34,924 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $105,321 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 10% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in San Dimas was 4.6% 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 shops.
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. San Dimas is a city in Los Angeles County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's. Homes and rents here are on the pricey side, and the residents skew somewhat older, with a large share holding a four-year degree. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, and summers get hot, with August the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by shops, professional and business services, and manufacturing. Among the biggest workplaces in town are Bonita Unified, Automatic Data Processing and Lucky Strike Entertainment. Commutes tend to be long, and a good number of people work from home. Unemployment is lower than a year ago.
Things to do. Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park, a protected area, sits in or beside town. Farther afield, a longer drive away, are Disneyland, an amusement park, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden. Dodger Stadium, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
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- 12,071households
- 40%of adults have a degree
- 10%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 17%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 42°; warmest in August, with highs near 92° and lows near 63°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Pomona/fairplex weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Dimas
- Bonita UnifiedSchool district905FTE
- Automatic Data ProcessingAutomated data processing services867
- Lucky Strike EntertainmentFamily fun centers809
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer353
- Southern California GAS CompanyNatural gas distribution srv.265
- National Hot Rod AssociationRacetracks258
- TargetDiscount department stores245
- San Dimas Community HospitalGeneral hospital235FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 29 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,932 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in San Dimas’ 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.
San Dimas home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- San Dimas$902,110
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 San Dimas listings, and the typical home goes pending in 26 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.
- San Dimas24.04%
- 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.
- San Dimas76
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- San Dimas20
Zip codes with a San Dimas address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls San Dimas — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.