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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −1.5% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +3.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 1.5% YoY while the median home got down 1.8% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.4%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $571K purchase rents for $2,500/mo: 0.44% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 3 BR (rent only, no matching sale price), 4 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 5 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 8 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Rentals here take about 14 days longer to find a tenant than sales take to go under contract (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 90017 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 94.3% of this ZIP's 14,606 occupied households, on a median household income of $53K.
| Measure | ZIP 90017 | Los Angeles County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $53K | $90K | -$37K |
| Below Poverty Level | 34.0% | 13.7% | +20.3% |
| Median Age | 33.30 | 38.20 | -4.90 |
| Total Population | 30,172 | 9,808,667 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.02 | 2.81 | -0.79 |
| Owner-Occupied | 5.7% | 45.9% | -40.2% |
| Worked From Home | 16.7% | 17.1% | -0.4% |
| Mean Commute | 32.20 | 30.40 | +1.80 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.4% to 9,808,667: residents under 18 are down 1.9% and those 65 and over are up 2.7%.
County median household income is $90K, 13.7% of residents are below the poverty level, 17.1% work from home.