East San Gabriel, California

Area Profile

23,410 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for East San Gabriel, in Los Angeles County.

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How this area ranks
Opportunity3011th of 3,904 published cities43
Housing affordability3864th of 4,223 published cities47
ClimateTop 4% of 4,223 published cities100
Physical resilience3903rd of 4,182 published cities11
AccessTop 47% of 4,226 published cities93
Economic stability2311th of 4,226 published cities58
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.2% and the Opportunity signal places East San Gabriel in the bottom 23%.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 8.9 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 22% of it.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by earthquake, inland flooding and wildfire.

At a glance

Population
23,410
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$108,677
Top 15% nationally
Density
10,753/sq mi
2.2 sq mi of land
Median age
41.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Los Angeles County
California
Metro area
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
Nearest major airport
LGB
21 mi · Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)
Median home value
$962,200
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.2% is lower than 19% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 4,679,684 employed residents.

45% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 85% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 85% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$9,375$108,677Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,864$46,411Top 21%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate11.6%Top 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute32.2 minTop 25%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher45.2%Top 15%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment4,679,684Top 1%July 2026
Employment change (3 years)-2.1%Bottom 18%July 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 24%July 2026
Labor force4,937,408Top 1%July 2026
Labor force participation65.4%Top 33%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$77,270Top 24%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$55,850Top 33%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-1.0%Bottom 5%July 2026
Unemployment rate5.2%Top 19%July 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024109k94k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $108,677 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides385,530$34,320
Fast Food and Counter Workers160,270$42,110
Retail Salespersons130,650$37,700
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand120,720$42,390
Office Clerks, General112,270$48,100
Cashiers109,940$36,980

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes city-level labor data only for places of 25,000 or more. This is the figure for Los Angeles County, CA, which contains this city.

There are 25.2 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
25.2
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Emperor ElementaryTemple City Unified65029.5
Washington ElementarySan Gabriel Unified40123.6
Wilson ElementarySan Gabriel Unified37923.7
Coolidge ElementarySan Gabriel Unified23221.1

51.8% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $1,976 takes 22% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 8.9 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
21.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
8.9×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$1,976
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$962,200
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income8.85Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate56.3%Bottom 16%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±5768,477Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$86$1,976Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$35,603$962,200Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.8%Top 30%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate7.0%Bottom 38%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

12 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 82°F and January a low of 49°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 14.3 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 80, in the Moderate band, and about 133 days a year pass 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

40°60°80°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station LOS ANGELES DWTN USC CAMPUS, 10.0 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.6"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index164.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation14.3"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low49°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high82°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months121991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 1001332024 calendar year
Median air quality index80.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing17°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
80
Moderate on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
164
90th percentile index
Days above 100
133
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

11 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are earthquake, inland flooding and wildfire.

Inland floodingHigh
EarthquakeHigh
WildfireModerate

Low or minimal exposure: heat wave, landslide, tornado, lightning, hail, avalanche, coastal flooding, strong wind, winter weather, tsunami, drought, cold wave.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

Los Angeles County records 4.7 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 6.3 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 17.8 per 100,000 residents in Los Angeles County.

Homicide
4.7
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
6.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
17.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
8.1
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Los Angeles County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around East San Gabriel rather than East San Gabriel itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 21 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Long Beach (Daugherty Fld)LGB21 mi10,000 ft
Los Angeles IntlLAX22 mi12,923 ft
Van NuysVNY24 mi8,001 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
Los AngelesLos Angeles County3,857,26348vs East San Gabriel
Long BeachLos Angeles County455,54846vs East San Gabriel
AnaheimOrange County344,52146vs East San Gabriel
Santa AnaOrange County312,53453vs East San Gabriel
IrvineOrange County311,69055vs East San Gabriel
Santa ClaritaLos Angeles County230,22149vs East San Gabriel
Huntington BeachOrange County195,24052vs East San Gabriel
GlendaleLos Angeles County190,74844vs East San Gabriel
Garden GroveOrange County170,96454vs East San Gabriel
LancasterLos Angeles County169,16938vs East San Gabriel
PalmdaleLos Angeles County164,63441vs East San Gabriel
PomonaLos Angeles County147,94344vs East San Gabriel

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
July 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in East San Gabriel

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9177523,672$118,610