Villa Park, California.
Typical home $2,337,518 (+5.3% in a year). Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,634 (+165%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $117,728 +5%
- $2,219,790$2,337,518 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $745,038 +47%
- $1,592,480$2,337,518 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.
- Villa Park$12,269
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 9 years.
Typical home values in Villa Park, CA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Villa Park, Orange County, California
Villa Park is a city of 5,843 people in Orange County. Half its households earn more than $202,245 a year and half less, against $116,289 across Orange County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 90% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 10% are rented. Unemployment in Orange County was 4.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Villa Park is a small city in Orange County where nearly all homes are lived in by their owners, a far larger share than across the county as a whole. Household incomes run well above the county's, home values are among the highest anywhere, and fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect. A good many adults hold a four-year degree, and the commute is a typical one for Southern California. Winters are mild, summers are warm, and snow is rare. Rain is light and mostly comes in the cooler months.
Work. Residents most often work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and banks, insurance and property. A fair number of people work from home. Across Orange County, some of the largest workplaces are The Walt Disney Company, UC Irvine Health and the University of California-Irvine. Unemployment across the county has edged down slightly from a year earlier, while the number of jobs has been close to flat.
Things to do. Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, among the best known amusement parks in the country, are a short drive away. Angel Stadium of Anaheim, home to the region's baseball team, is also close by. For a quieter outing, the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum is a short drive, and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a longer drive away.
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- 1,924households
- 54%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 26%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Orange County had 1,663,220 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 71° and lows near 48°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 66°. About 14 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Anaheim weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Orange County
- The Walt Disney CompanyAmusement parks39,185
- UC Irvine HealthHospitals13,011
- University of California-IrvineUniversity or college10,031
- Northgate GonzalezSupermarket and other grocery retailers9,262
- UCI Medical CenterGeneral hospital6,882FTE
- Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianGeneral hospital5,259FTE
- Edwards LifesciencesCatheters manufacturing4,598
- Applied MedicalInstruments, mechanical microsurgical, manufacturing4,478
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2,209 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 428,272 people in all across the county; Villa Park has one of its own. Colleges come 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 high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Villa Park’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 Orange County and the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro.
Villa Park home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Villa Park$2,337,518
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 8 Villa Park 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Villa Park18
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Villa Park7
Zip codes with a Villa Park address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Villa Park — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.