Signal Hill, California.
Typical home $700,178 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $2,586 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,662 (+83%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $357 +0%
- $699,821$700,178 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,119 +8%
- $650,059$700,178 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.
- Signal Hill$3,675
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Signal Hill, CA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Signal Hill, Los Angeles County, California
Signal Hill is a city of 11,848 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $113,298 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% 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 schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Signal Hill is a small city, and residents tend to be a little older than in much of the country. Household incomes run higher than across Los Angeles County, and fewer people live below the poverty line than a broad look at the region might suggest. Homes here are fairly costly to buy and to rent, and owners and renters make up about equal parts of the community. Winters are mild, with cool December days and no real cold, and summers are warm but not extreme. Rain and snowmelt together amount to a modest yearly total, so the climate is dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in manufacturing, professional and business services, and shops. Some of the biggest workplaces in Signal Hill itself are Costco Wholesale, Target and the American University of Health Sciences. Commutes are on the long side, and a good number of people do their jobs from home.
Things to do. Dignity Health Sports Park, a stadium, and the Long Beach Street Circuit, a race track, are both a short drive away. For a day out that takes more time, Disneyland, an amusement park, and the Getty Center, a museum, are each a longer drive away.
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- 4,545households
- 37%of adults have a degree
- 7%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 20%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 47°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Long Beach Daugherty Field weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Signal Hill
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer372
- TargetDiscount department stores232
- The ODP CorporationGeneral warehousing and storage177
- Allied RefrigerationCompressors, refrigeration, merchant wholesalers122
- American University of Health SciencesUniversity or college112
- Blusky Restoration ContractorsRestoration and mitigation110
- Environmental Construction GroupToxic material removal contractors90
- Liftech Elevator ServicesElevator installation86
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 24 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,997 people in all. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24). 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 moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Signal Hill’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.
Signal Hill home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Signal Hill$700,178
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Signal Hill listings — 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.
- Signal Hill25.63%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Signal Hill29
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Signal Hill9
Zip codes with a Signal Hill address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Signal Hill — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.