East Rancho DominguezCA
Home to 14,603 people, this town lies in California.
Is East Rancho Dominguez a good place to live?
East Rancho Dominguez’s weakest subject is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $574K, 6 years of the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income. Health is weaker too: residents are less healthy than 81% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Where it does best is walkability: it is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. The overall grade lands at D, 591st of 841 in California. Nationally, it does better than 12% of U.S. towns. It lags on hazard risk as well (D): FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 81% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Elsewhere it is close to typical: B− for schools and B− for incomes.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · health, CDC PLACES · FEMA National Risk Index · schools, state test and graduation results.
What makes East Rancho Dominguez stand out
Where East Rancho Dominguez beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave East Rancho Dominguez for work
Where East Rancho Dominguez’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How East Rancho Dominguez grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far East Rancho Dominguez is from typical.
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SoFi Stadium and 237 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around East Rancho Dominguez. Close and well known come first.
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw17 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a year
Big draw17 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw10 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw10 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Big draw12 mi MuseumUSS IowaPhoto credits
SoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0 · Disneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Kriddl, CC0 · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: CanonStarGal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · USS Iowa: PH1 Jeff Hilton, Public domain
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Moving to East Rancho Dominguez: who provides what
East Rancho Dominguez is unincorporated, so Los Angeles County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in East Rancho Dominguez.
East Rancho Dominguez has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Los Angeles and beyond.
East Rancho Dominguez stands out in California and nationally: a larger share of its adults feel lonely
Among adults in East Rancho Dominguez, 35% say their health is fair or poor, above both California’s towns (22%) and U.S. towns (19%). In East Rancho Dominguez, 18% of adults report frequent physical distress. The town does better than the California average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 22.
| East Rancho Dominguez | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 35% | 22% | 19% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 46% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 67% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | East Rancho Dominguez | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 3.5% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.8% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 24% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Top of a very high hazard risk in East Rancho Dominguez: earthquakes
FEMA puts 83% of East Rancho Dominguez’s expected hazard losses down to earthquakes, and 16% to inland flooding. Federal disaster aid has reached households in East Rancho Dominguez after 4 declared disasters, most recently in 2025.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
For most of its workers, the job is outside East Rancho Dominguez
East Rancho Dominguez has 654 jobs for its 5,251 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 402 in 2013 to 654.
Among residents in East Rancho Dominguez, 15% live below the poverty line, where California’s towns sit at 10% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. Most working residents leave East Rancho Dominguez for work: only 1% work in town. For East Rancho Dominguez, the typical journey to work is 32 minutes. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs here rose by 252, to 654.
| East Rancho Dominguez | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 32 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 5.3% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.4% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and pleasant summers in East Rancho Dominguez
January nights average 47.2°, milder than in 98% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 82.5°.
East Rancho Dominguez’s midsummer high is 83°F. Snowfall is close to zero.
| East Rancho Dominguez | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 47°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 83°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
1.1% of the land in East Rancho Dominguez is protected from building
One park or preserve covers 6 acres in East Rancho Dominguez.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. East Rancho Dominguez County Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in East Rancho Dominguez sells for about $627K at the median
For households in East Rancho Dominguez, the share who own their home is 55%. The typical rent for East Rancho Dominguez comes to $1,701 a month.
| East Rancho Dominguez | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 55% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,701 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about East Rancho Dominguez
Colleges nearby
54 within 15 miles of the center of East Rancho Dominguez
About 7 of every 100 East Rancho Dominguez residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About East Rancho Dominguez
Unincorporated community in California, United States
East Rancho Dominguez, () also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 15,114 at the 2020 census, down from 15,135 at the 2010 census. East Rancho Dominguez is an accepted city name according to the United States Postal Service, and shares the 90221 ZIP Code with Compton. East Rancho Dominguez is an unincorporated enclave surrounded by Compton within five blocks east and west of Atlantic Ave. Alondra Boulevard is the southern border, and three blocks north of Rosecrans Ave. is roughly the northern border. East Rancho Dominguez County Park is in the center of …
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- Area
- 0.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 72 ft
East Rancho Dominguez’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with East Rancho Dominguez.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Paramount (D) comes closest.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Rancho Dominguez | #591 | D | D | — | B− | C− |
| Paramount | #669 | D | D | D | C+ | C |
| Compton | #742 | D− | D | D− | B− | C− |
| Lynwood | #771 | D− | D | D | C+ | C− |
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Questions about East Rancho Dominguez
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is East Rancho Dominguez, CA a good place to live?
East Rancho Dominguez grades D overall, better than 12% of U.S. towns and #591 of 841 in California. It grades C− for health and B− for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D.
Is East Rancho Dominguez, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $574,000, 25% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.