Temple City, California.
Typical home $1,072,565 (+0.1% in a year), asking rent $3,298 (-0.9%). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,696 (+92%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,407 +0%
- $1,071,158$1,072,565 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $148,573 +16%
- $923,992$1,072,565 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.
- Temple City$5,630
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Temple City, CA rose 0.1% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Temple City, CA fell 0.9% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Temple City runs $4,088/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $4,438 in Jan 2025.
That is $7,386 a month against $3,298 rent: a $5,630 mortgage payment, plus $608 property tax and $1,148 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Temple City
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$7,386
- Renting$3,298
- Mortgage only$5,630
Property tax · $608/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 · $1,148/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 Temple City, Los Angeles County, California
Temple City is a city of 36,494 people in Los Angeles County. Half its households earn more than $104,425 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Temple City 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 finance and property.
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. Temple City is a city of residents who are somewhat older than in many places, with household incomes above the county's. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and typical home values and rents are both high. A good share of adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by banks, insurance and property, professional and business services, and shops. Some of the largest workplaces in town are Temple City Unified, the school district, and Golden State Health Care Center, a skilled nursing facility. Commutes tend to be long, and a fair number of people work from home.
Things to do. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden a short drive away, and the Norton Simon Museum is an art museum, also a short drive off. For a longer outing, Disneyland is an amusement park a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, summers are warm, and rain is light across the year.
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- 11,454households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 16%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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Temple City
- Golden State Health Care CenterSkilled nursing facilities489
- Temple City UnifiedSchool district445FTE
- Ralphs Grocery CompanySupermarkets and other grocery except convenience stores76
- Temple CityMail and parcel delivery45
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 610 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 Temple City’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.
Temple City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Temple City$1,072,565
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Temple City listings — 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.
- Temple City22.02%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Temple City66
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Temple City24
Zip codes with a Temple City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Temple City — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.