Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (California) Houses and Residents

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Rancho Palos Verdes Apartments for Rent

Total population: 41,106 (All urban)

Rancho Palos Verdes, California Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 15,669 (15,233 occupied: 12,469 owner occupied, 2,764 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	18%
State:	43%

Housing density: 1147 houses/condos per square mile

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Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses and condos in 2007 in this state: $488,768.

Median contract rent in 2007: $2,034 (lower quartile is $1,557, upper quartile is $3,029)

Median rent asked for vacant for-rent units in 2007: $1,845

Median gross rent in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA in 2007: $2,201

Housing units in Rancho Palos Verdes with a mortgage: 8,460 (866 second mortgage, 1,026 home equity loan, 28 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,170

Rancho Palos Verdes,CA index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $1,600,281 (it was $547,100 in 2000)

Rancho Palos Verdes:	$1,600,281
California:	$532,300

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $1,186,216 - $1,669,737

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $1,382,151
Here: $1,382,151
State: $619,135

Townhouses or other attached units: $866,835
Here: $866,835
State: $541,123

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $317,137
Here: $317,137
State: $512,546

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $705,291
Here: $705,291
State: $482,470

Household type by relationship

Households: 40,790

In family households: 37,120 (10,499 male householders, 1,747 female householders)
10,958 spouses, 12,054 children (11,345 natural, 352 adopted, 357 stepchildren), 442 grandchildren, 263 brothers or sisters, 382 parents, 456 other relatives, 319 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 3,670 (1,360 male householders (1,030 living alone)), 1,747 female householders (1,582 living alone)), 563 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 511 (168 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 5,606 2-persons, 2,482 3-persons, 2,673 4-persons, 1,049 5-persons, 339 6-persons, 97 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 2,612 1-person, 438 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 18 4-persons.

8,069 married couples with children.
905 single-parent households (218 men, 687 women).

67.9% of residents of Rancho Palos Verdes speak English at home.
3.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
8.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
19.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 11,087 (26.8%)
(58.2% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	6.9
State:	5.8

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	4.4
State:	3.5

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Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Rancho Palos Verdes, California:
	1 room: 8 2 rooms: 46 3 rooms: 313 4 rooms: 461 5 rooms: 1,673 6 rooms: 2,598 7 rooms: 3,120 8 rooms: 2,351 9 or more rooms: 1,899

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Rancho Palos Verdes, California:
	1 room: 21 2 rooms: 239 3 rooms: 667 4 rooms: 505 5 rooms: 595 6 rooms: 299 7 rooms: 255 8 rooms: 91 9 or more rooms: 92

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 73
1995 to 1998: 120
1990 to 1994: 244
1980 to 1989: 959
1970 to 1979: 4,055
1960 to 1969: 6,685
1950 to 1959: 3,147
1940 to 1949: 208
1939 or earlier: 178

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Rancho Palos Verdes:
	no bedroom: 24 1 bedroom: 165 2 bedrooms: 1,134 3 bedrooms: 4,315 4 bedrooms: 5,315 5 or more bedrooms: 1,516

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Rancho Palos Verdes:
	no bedroom: 60 1 bedroom: 594 2 bedrooms: 1,022 3 bedrooms: 595 4 bedrooms: 415 5 or more bedrooms: 78

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Rancho Palos Verdes in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 148 1 vehicle: 2,277 2 vehicles: 6,749 3 vehicles: 2,332 4 vehicles: 724 5 or more vehicles: 239

Cars and other vehicles available in Rancho Palos Verdes in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 30 1 vehicle: 1,038 2 vehicles: 1,445 3 vehicles: 196 4 vehicles: 55 5 or more vehicles: 0

Estimate of home value of owner-occupied houses in 2007 in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA:

Less than $10,000: 3
$10,000 to $14,999: 2
$15,000 to $19,999: 2
$20,000 to $24,999: 2
$25,000 to $29,999: 1
$30,000 to $34,999: 0
$35,000 to $39,999: 0
$40,000 to $49,999: 3
$50,000 to $59,999: 6
$60,000 to $69,999: 6
$70,000 to $79,999: 2
$80,000 to $89,999: 2
$90,000 to $99,999: 8
$100,000 to $124,999: 21
$125,000 to $149,999: 25
$150,000 to $174,999: 36
$175,000 to $199,999: 43
$200,000 to $249,999: 39
$250,000 to $299,999: 7
$300,000 to $399,999: 57
$400,000 to $499,999: 103
$500,000 to $749,999: 600
$750,000 to $999,999: 1036
$1,000,000 or more: 10455

Rancho Palos Verdes rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Rancho Palos Verdes:

Less than $100: 0 people
$100 to $149: 0
$150 to $199: 0
$200 to $249: 0
$250 to $299: 0
$300 to $349: 0
$350 to $399: 0
$400 to $449: 0
$450 to $499: 0
$500 to $549: 0
$550 to $599: 0
$600 to $649: 0
$650 to $699: 1
$700 to $749: 4
$750 to $799: 20
$800 to $899: 8
$900 to $999: 22
$1,000 to $1,249: 70
$1,250 to $1,499: 300
$1,500 to $1,999: 813
$2,000 or more: 1,293
No cash rent: 220

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 1,928 1990 to 1994: 1,370 1985 to 1989: 1,038 1980 to 1984: 1,214 1975 to 1979: 1,533 1970 to 1974: 1,032 1970 to 1974: 958 1965 to 1969: 2,014

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 94.5%
Number of people working at home: 1,216 (6.7% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 260
5 to 9 minutes: 808
10 to 14 minutes: 1391
15 to 19 minutes: 2051
20 to 24 minutes: 2224
25 to 29 minutes: 888
30 to 34 minutes: 2720
35 to 39 minutes: 727
40 to 44 minutes: 1311
45 to 59 minutes: 2238
60 to 89 minutes: 1862
90 or more minutes: 479

Rancho Palos Verdes mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 15,217 (84%)
Carpooled: 1,352 (7%)
Bus or trolley bus: 178 (1%)
Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
Bicycle: 11 (0%)
Walked: 128 (1%)
Other means: 55 (0%)
Worked at home: 1,216 (7%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 316
$10,000 to $14,999: 243
$15,000 to $19,999: 243
$20,000 to $24,999: 494
$25,000 to $29,999: 305
$30,000 to $34,999: 382
$35,000 to $39,999: 589
$40,000 to $44,999: 506
$45,000 to $49,999: 466
$50,000 to $59,999: 721
$60,000 to $74,999: 1514
$75,000 to $99,999: 2281
$100,000 to $124,999: 1941
$125,000 to $149,999: 1190
$150,000 to $199,999: 1907
$200,000 or more: 2255

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 14145

English: 3373

German: 3005

Irish: 2343

Italian: 2234

United States or American: 1784

Iranian: 957

Polish: 744

Russian: 733

Norwegian: 639

European: 622

Swedish: 589

Scottish: 554

French (except Basque): 542

Scotch-Irish: 541

Croatian: 464

Dutch: 424

Arab:: 361

Yugoslavian: 337

British: 299

Hungarian: 288

Armenian: 286

Greek: 264

Danish: 244

Austrian: 195

Welsh: 184

Canadian: 177

Swiss: 164

Subsaharan African:: 151

French Canadian: 129

Lithuanian: 117

Ukrainian: 110

Egyptian: 109

Eastern European: 95

Romanian: 94

Nigerian: 87

Lebanese: 84

Northern European: 78

Czechoslovakian: 75

Slovak: 74

Czech: 70

Brazilian: 56

Portuguese: 55

Finnish: 55

Other Arab: 52

Syrian: 47

Jordanian: 45

Scandinavian: 41

African: 36

Australian: 32

New Zealander: 31

Belgian: 31

Pennsylvania German: 28

Turkish: 28

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 26

Macedonian: 25

Israeli: 22

Kenyan: 21

Jamaican: 20

Albanian: 18

Arab/Arabic: 18

Slavic: 16

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 16

Icelander: 14

Latvian: 10

Alsatian: 9

Basque: 9

Estonian: 7

Slovene: 7

South African: 7

Serbian: 6

Palestinian: 6

West Indian: 6

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

Korea (16%)
Japan (16%)
Taiwan (9%)
China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (9%)
Iran (7%)
United Kingdom (5%)
Philippines (4%)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 17019
Northeast: 4018
Midwest: 4704
South: 2235
West: 1780

64% of Rancho Palos Verdes residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in California.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 9
Nursery to 4th grade: 6
5th and 6th grade: 50
7th and 8th grade: 48
9th grade: 58
10th grade: 52
11th grade: 78
12th grade, no diploma: 185
High school graduate (or equivalency): 1,066
Less than 1 year of college: 433
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 1,705
Associate degree: 686
Bachelor's degree: 4,700
Master's degree: 2,748
Professional school degree: 1,488
Doctorate degree: 860

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 35
Nursery to 4th grade: 3
5th and 6th grade: 67
7th and 8th grade: 113
9th grade: 67
10th grade: 118
11th grade: 91
12th grade, no diploma: 290
High school graduate (or equivalency): 2,509
Less than 1 year of college: 925
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 2,623
Associate degree: 1,396
Bachelor's degree: 4,837
Master's degree: 1,895
Professional school degree: 648
Doctorate degree: 234

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 2.8%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 2.1%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 6.3%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 1.8%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 3.5%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 0.0%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 4.5%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 6.0%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 4.8%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 1.0%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $121,330
Black householders: $134,502
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $165,859
Asian householders: $135,331
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $171,773
Some other race householders: $60,582
Two or more races householders: $120,020
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $100,448

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for Black householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for American Indian and Alaska Native householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for Asian householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for Some other race householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for Two or more races householders

Rancho Palos Verdes household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Rancho Palos Verdes marital status for males

Rancho Palos Verdes marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $1,631,578
Black or African American householders: $1,602,913
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $1,218,857
Asian householders: $1,735,124
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $548,442
Some other race householders: $1,122,624
Two or more races householders: $1,565,473
Hispanic or Latino householders: $1,385,876

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 12,095
One, attached: 1,284
Two: 24
3 or 4: 220
5 to 9: 307
10 to 19: 203
20 to 49: 684
50 or more: 852

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 0%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 0%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Rancho Palos Verdes:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (89%) Electricity (10%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Electricity (53%) Utility gas (46%) No fuel used (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 490

Here:	10.3%
California:	9.9%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 204

Here:	8.9%
California:	7.8%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 334

Here:	19.0%
California:	15.4%

School Enrollment by Level of School for Male Students

School Enrollment by Level of School for Female Students

Age and Sex of Sensory-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Physically-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Mentally-Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Self-Care Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Go-Outside-Home Disabled Residents (Noninstitutionalized)

Age and Sex of Residents with Employment Disability (Noninst.)

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