South Gate, California.
Typical home $696,567 (+2.0% in a year), asking rent $2,291 (+0.2%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,843 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,912 +2%
- $682,655$696,567 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $111,915 +19%
- $584,652$696,567 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.
- South Gate$3,656
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in South Gate, CA rose 2.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in South Gate, CA rose 0.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in South Gate runs $2,505/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $2,623 in Nov 2023.
That is $4,797 a month against $2,291 rent: a $3,656 mortgage payment, plus $395 property tax and $746 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — South Gate
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$4,797
- Renting$2,291
- Mortgage only$3,656
Property tax · $395/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 · $746/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 South Gate, Los Angeles County, California
South Gate is a city of 92,726 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $74,571 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 13% of its people live below the poverty line. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. Unemployment in South Gate was 4.7% 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 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. South Gate is a city in the southeast part of Los Angeles County, and it is a place where most households rent rather than own, a good deal more so than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run below the county's, and the people here are somewhat younger than in many American cities. Relatively few adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute to work tends to be a long one. Winters are mild and summers are warm, with rain falling mostly in the cooler months and little of it overall.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, in transport, warehouses and utilities, and in shops. Among the largest workplaces in South Gate are Walmart, Saputo and Amazon, which fits the city's mix of retail, food production and delivery. Joblessness is lower than it was a year ago, though still a little above what it was in many other parts of the county.
Things to do. For a day out, SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum are both a short drive away, and Dodger Stadium is close by as well for baseball. A longer drive brings you to the La Brea Tar Pits, a museum, and to Disneyland, an amusement park.
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- 25,199households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 13%below the poverty line
- 32 mintypical commute
- 7%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 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 84° and lows near 65°. About 14 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus weather station, 8 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in South Gate
- JB Hunt761
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters631
- SaputoCheese manufacturing374
- AmazonCouriers and express delivery services335
- Shultz SteelCold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished327
- TargetDiscount department stores277
- Herbert Malarkey Roofing CompanyAsphalt shingles made from purchased asphaltic materials248
- Sam's ClubWarehouse clubs and supercenters234
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 43 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,701 people in all. 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
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in South Gate’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 Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
South Gate home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- South Gate$696,567
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 South Gate 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.
- South Gate18.27%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- South Gate36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- South Gate14
Zip codes with a South Gate address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls South Gate — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.