Whittier, CA (California) Houses and Residents

Back to: Whittier, California main profile, California, California smaller cities, California small towns, California forum, All US cities.

Whittier CA Area Homes for Sale - Accurate and Complete - Roost.com

Whittier Apartments for Rent

Total population: 82,850 (All urban)

Whittier, California Age and Sex of Residents

Houses: 29,040 (28,333 occupied: 16,380 owner occupied, 11,953 renter occupied)

% of renters here:	42%
State:	43%

Housing density: 1985 houses/condos per square mile

Recent posts about housing in Whittier, California on our local forum with over 600,000 registered users:

	whittier 90606 (11 replies)
	The Truth about California from a former west coast Girl... (401 replies)
	Moving Back to Whittier,Ca from Portland,OR (0 replies)
	commuting to whittier (6 replies)
	Commute from Irvine to Whittier (OPINIONS NEEDED) (9 replies)
	Whittier (12 replies)

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

Median contract rent in 2007: $940 (lower quartile is $796, upper quartile is $1,146)

Housing units in Whittier with a mortgage: 11,731 (1,821 second mortgage, 1,062 home equity loan, 65 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,790

Whittier,CA index of house prices

Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $614,300 (it was $209,800 in 2000)

Whittier:	$614,300
California:	$532,300

Lower value quartile - upper value quartile: $498,600 - $729,500

Mean price in 2007:

Detached houses: $675,353
Here: $675,353
State: $619,135

Townhouses or other attached units: $448,955
Here: $448,955
State: $541,123

In 3-to-4-unit structures: $388,462
Here: $388,462
State: $512,546

In 5-or-more-unit structures: $324,688
Here: $324,688
State: $482,470

Mobile homes: $37,941
Here: $37,941
State: $59,450

Median year house/condo built: 1955

Median year apartment built: 1961

Household type by relationship

Households: 81,488

In family households: 72,317 (15,107 male householders, 5,543 female householders)
15,117 spouses, 27,671 children (25,776 natural, 463 adopted, 1,432 stepchildren), 1,914 grandchildren, 1,165 brothers or sisters, 997 parents, 2,387 other relatives, 2,416 non-relatives
In nonfamily households: 9,171 (3,362 male householders (2,589 living alone)), 4,261 female householders (3,726 living alone)), 1,548 nonrelatives
In group quarters: 2,350 (1,226 institutionalized population)

Size of family households: 7,053 2-persons, 4,601 3-persons, 4,482 4-persons, 2,529 5-persons, 1,189 6-persons, 796 7-or-more-persons.

Size of nonfamily households: 6,315 1-person, 1,092 2-persons, 176 3-persons, 33 4-persons, 7 6-persons.

15,200 married couples with children.
5,271 single-parent households (1,331 men, 3,940 women).

60.7% of residents of Whittier speak English at home.
34.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 15,301 (18.3%)
(42.7% of them are naturalized citizens)

Median number of rooms in houses and condos:

Here:	5.9
State:	5.8

Median number of rooms in apartments:

Here:	3.5
State:	3.5

Home Value Estimate
Address:		Unit (optional):
City	State	Zip

Recent Home Sales
Address:
City	State	Zip
Min Price (optional)	Max Price (optional)
Prioritization: Sale Date Distance

Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Whittier, California:
	1 room: 55 2 rooms: 463 3 rooms: 1,019 4 rooms: 1,121 5 rooms: 3,766 6 rooms: 4,742 7 rooms: 2,706 8 rooms: 1,496 9 or more rooms: 1,012

Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Whittier, California:
	1 room: 1,307 2 rooms: 1,828 3 rooms: 2,834 4 rooms: 3,048 5 rooms: 1,965 6 rooms: 645 7 rooms: 142 8 rooms: 150 9 or more rooms: 34

Year house built:

1999 to March 2000: 25
1995 to 1998: 155
1990 to 1994: 653
1980 to 1989: 1,693
1970 to 1979: 2,985
1960 to 1969: 4,985
1950 to 1959: 11,823
1940 to 1949: 3,436
1939 or earlier: 3,285

Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses and condos in Whittier:
	no bedroom: 197 1 bedroom: 918 2 bedrooms: 3,223 3 bedrooms: 8,592 4 bedrooms: 2,801 5 or more bedrooms: 649

Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Whittier:
	no bedroom: 1,601 1 bedroom: 4,166 2 bedrooms: 4,371 3 bedrooms: 1,685 4 bedrooms: 86 5 or more bedrooms: 44

Owners and renters by unit type in %

Breakdown of mean house values by ages of householders

Cars and other vehicles available in Whittier in owner-occupied houses/condos:
	no vehicle: 676 1 vehicle: 3,745 2 vehicles: 7,235 3 vehicles: 3,134 4 vehicles: 1,261 5 or more vehicles: 329

Cars and other vehicles available in Whittier in n renter-occupied apartments
	no vehicle: 1,689 1 vehicle: 5,445 2 vehicles: 3,831 3 vehicles: 795 4 vehicles: 157 5 or more vehicles: 36

Whittier rent paid by renters for apartments graph

Rent paid by renters in 2007 in Whittier:

Less than $100: 25 people
$100 to $149: 16
$150 to $199: 30
$200 to $249: 80
$250 to $299: 78
$300 to $349: 49
$350 to $399: 76
$400 to $449: 70
$450 to $499: 67
$500 to $549: 85
$550 to $599: 152
$600 to $649: 244
$650 to $699: 390
$700 to $749: 786
$750 to $799: 794
$800 to $899: 1,527
$900 to $999: 1,614
$1,000 to $1,249: 2,690
$1,250 to $1,499: 874
$1,500 to $1,999: 467
$2,000 or more: 164
No cash rent: 203

Year of entry for the foreign-born population
	1995 to March 2000: 1,900 1990 to 1994: 1,971 1985 to 1989: 2,473 1980 to 1984: 2,297 1975 to 1979: 1,852 1970 to 1974: 1,813 1970 to 1974: 788 1965 to 1969: 2,207

Whittier, CA Time Leaving Home for Work

Percentage of workers working in this county: 82.8%
Number of people working at home: 757 (2.1% of all workers)

Travel time to work

Less than 5 minutes: 564
5 to 9 minutes: 3080
10 to 14 minutes: 3928
15 to 19 minutes: 4185
20 to 24 minutes: 4386
25 to 29 minutes: 2122
30 to 34 minutes: 5526
35 to 39 minutes: 1238
40 to 44 minutes: 1765
45 to 59 minutes: 4185
60 to 89 minutes: 2786
90 or more minutes: 1074

Whittier mode of transportation to work chart

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 28,471 (80%)
Carpooled: 4,432 (12%)
Bus or trolley bus: 774 (2%)
Subway or elevated: 22 (0%)
Railroad: 72 (0%)
Taxi: 20 (0%)
Motorcycle: 29 (0%)
Bicycle: 122 (0%)
Walked: 721 (2%)
Other means: 176 (0%)
Worked at home: 757 (2%)

Household income:

Less than $10,000: 1912
$10,000 to $14,999: 1612
$15,000 to $19,999: 1363
$20,000 to $24,999: 1542
$25,000 to $29,999: 1687
$30,000 to $34,999: 1626
$35,000 to $39,999: 1417
$40,000 to $44,999: 1707
$45,000 to $49,999: 1433
$50,000 to $59,999: 2704
$60,000 to $74,999: 3135
$75,000 to $99,999: 3559
$100,000 to $124,999: 1977
$125,000 to $149,999: 904
$150,000 to $199,999: 958
$200,000 or more: 737

First ancestries reported:

Other groups: 47445

German: 4317

English: 4220

Irish: 3329

Italian: 2589

United States or American: 2237

French (except Basque): 955

Scottish: 876

Armenian: 766

Dutch: 664

Russian: 653

Norwegian: 644

Scotch-Irish: 618

Polish: 581

Swedish: 563

European: 431

Danish: 359

Arab:: 303

British: 262

Hungarian: 196

Croatian: 155

Austrian: 150

Welsh: 150

French Canadian: 120

Swiss: 119

Eastern European: 115

African: 106

Subsaharan African:: 106

Greek: 105

Lebanese: 97

Palestinian: 73

Egyptian: 72

Canadian: 72

Ukrainian: 69

Portuguese: 67

Czech: 66

Romanian: 62

Basque: 62

Scandinavian: 54

Yugoslavian: 51

Czechoslovakian: 49

Belgian: 46

Northern European: 42

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 38

Arab/Arabic: 36

Lithuanian: 36

Iranian: 35

Serbian: 33

West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups):: 28

Icelander: 25

Bulgarian: 21

Jamaican: 21

Slovak: 20

Turkish: 18

Maltese: 15

Moroccan: 14

Guyanese: 13

Pennsylvania German: 13

Finnish: 13

Other Arab: 11

Latvian: 11

Slovene: 10

Israeli: 9

Macedonian: 8

Brazilian: 8

Acadian/Cajun: 8

Slavic: 7

Alsatian: 7

Belizean: 7

Australian: 4

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

Mexico (64%)
El Salvador (5%)
Philippines (3%)
Guatemala (2%)
Canada (2%)
Taiwan (2%)
Korea (1%)

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

This state: 53570
Northeast: 2829
Midwest: 5300
South: 3368
West: 2988

57% of Whittier residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 83% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in California.

Education attainment for males 25 years and older:

No schooling: 554
Nursery to 4th grade: 151
5th and 6th grade: 619
7th and 8th grade: 515
9th grade: 614
10th grade: 559
11th grade: 667
12th grade, no diploma: 1,407
High school graduate (or equivalency): 5,322
Less than 1 year of college: 1,778
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,320
Associate degree: 1,813
Bachelor's degree: 3,590
Master's degree: 1,175
Professional school degree: 642
Doctorate degree: 305

Educational Attainment for Males

Education attainment for females 25 years and older:

No schooling: 605
Nursery to 4th grade: 249
5th and 6th grade: 819
7th and 8th grade: 715
9th grade: 622
10th grade: 660
11th grade: 802
12th grade, no diploma: 1,402
High school graduate (or equivalency): 6,768
Less than 1 year of college: 2,467
Some college more than 1 year, no degree: 4,665
Associate degree: 2,257
Bachelor's degree: 3,863
Master's degree: 1,247
Professional school degree: 332
Doctorate degree: 144

Educational Attainment for Females

Class of Workers

Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic males: 4.2%
Unemployment rate for White non-Hispanic females: 5.9%

Unemployment rate for Black males: 0.0%
Unemployment rate for Black females: 6.5%

Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native males: 15.7%
Unemployment rate for American Indian and Alaska Native females: 2.7%

Unemployment rate for Asian males: 5.1%
Unemployment rate for Asian females: 6.9%

Unemployment rate for other race males: 6.0%
Unemployment rate for other race females: 8.4%

Unemployment rate for two or more race males: 5.1%
Unemployment rate for two or more race females: 7.6%

Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino males: 6.4%
Unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino females: 7.2%

Median household income in 2007 for:

White non-Hispanic householders: $65,563
Black householders: $55,188
American Indian and Alaska Native householders: $51,341
Asian householders: $86,681
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $43,100
Some other race householders: $53,341
Two or more races householders: $44,025
Hispanic or Latino race householders: $61,582

Whittier household income for White non-Hispanic householders

Whittier household income for Some other race householders

Whittier household income for Two or more races householders

Whittier household income for Hispanic or Latino race householders

Whittier marital status for males

Whittier marital status for females

Median 2007 house value for:

White Non-Hispanic householders: $647,386
Black or African American householders: $601,123
American Indian or Alaska Native householders: $526,166
Asian householders: $689,257
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander householders: $549,005
Some other race householders: $550,469
Two or more races householders: $608,151
Hispanic or Latino householders: $568,622

Housing units in structures:

One, detached: 19,092
One, attached: 1,484
Two: 587
3 or 4: 1,471
5 to 9: 2,470
10 to 19: 1,401
20 to 49: 1,411
50 or more: 909
Mobile homes: 187
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 28

Median worth of mobile homes: $13,000

Housing units lacking complete plumbing facilities: 1%

Housing units lacking complete kitchen facilities: 1%

Year Householders Moved Into Unit in Whittier:

Most commonly used house heating fuel in houses and condos:
	Utility gas (91%) Electricity (7%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%) No fuel used (1%)

Most commonly used house heating fuel in apartments:
	Utility gas (70%) Electricity (26%) No fuel used (2%) Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)

Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,902

Here:	16.9%
California:	9.9%

Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 654

Here:	12.2%
California:	7.8%

Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,530

Here:	26.7%
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.)

Back to the top

Discuss this and other local issues on our hugely popular California forum.

Back to: Whittier, CA (don't miss, contains a wealth of additional information), California, All US cities.

Recent home sales, price trends, and home value evaluator powered by Onboard Informatics
© 2008 Onboard Informatics. Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed.

City-data.com does not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of any information on this site. Use at your own risk.
Some parts © 2003-2008 Advameg, Inc.