Valinda, California.
Typical home $764,062 (+0.3% in a year), asking rent $3,400 . Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$2,051 (+105%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,015 +0%
- $762,047$764,062 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $116,836 +18%
- $647,226$764,062 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.
- Valinda$4,010
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Valinda, CA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Valinda, Los Angeles County, California
Valinda, in Los Angeles County, had 22,437 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $100,165 a year and half less, against $90,112 across Los Angeles County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 79% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 21% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Valinda is a community in Los Angeles County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and more so than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run higher than the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect for the area. Typical home values are high, and the population is of middle age.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, manufacturing, and professional and business services. Across Los Angeles County, some of the largest workplaces are Los Angeles Unified, the University of California-Los Angeles and Cedars-sinai Medical Center. The typical commute is a fairly long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Disneyland, the amusement park, is a longer drive away, as is The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a botanical garden for a quieter day out. For sport, SoFi Stadium is also a longer drive away. Winters are mild with little or no snow, and summers are hot and fairly dry, which suits time outdoors for much of the year.
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- 4,713households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 30 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 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, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Los Angeles County
- Los Angeles UnifiedSchool district55,137FTE
- University of California-Los AngelesUniversity or college28,794
- University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity or college17,428
- Cedars-sinai Medical CenterGeneral hospital17,201FTE
- Ronald Reagan UclaGeneral hospital8,588FTE
- Northrop Grumman SystemsGuided missile and space vehicle propulsion unit and propulsion unit parts manufacturing8,567
- Universal Studios HollywoodTheme parks, amusement7,857
- Space Exploration TechnologiesGuided missile and space vehicle manufacturing7,577
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5,360 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,023,254 people in all across the county; Valinda has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively 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 Valinda’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Valinda home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Valinda$764,062
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
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
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Valinda14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Valinda6
Zip codes with a Valinda address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Valinda — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.