ValindaCA
The town has 20,962 residents and lies in California.
Is Valinda a good place to live?
A town of contrasts. Where it falls short is cost of living (D): the typical home is worth about $764K, 8 years of the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income. Valinda grades B− overall and ranks 229th of 841 in California. Nationally, it does better than 47% of U.S. towns. It also trails on hazard risk (D) — FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 91% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Its standout strength is incomes (A−): the median household earns $100K. Walkability is a strength too: it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 85% of U.S. towns. The town’s trail density is 0.2 miles per square mile, against 1.0 in California’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns.
Figures: incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenStreetMap.
What makes Valinda stand out
Where Valinda beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
| School | Grades | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Baldwin Academy | K–5 | 519 |
| Wing Lane Elementary | K–5 | 384 |
| Valinda School of Academics | K–5 | 306 |
98% of working residents leave Valinda for work
Where Valinda’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Valinda grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Valinda is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Disneyland and 246 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Valinda. Close and well known come first.
Big draw16 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a year
Big draw24 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw24 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw21 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw21 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Big draw14 mi Theme parkKnott's Berry Farm4.5M visitors a yearPhoto credits
Disneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · SoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, 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 · Knott's Berry Farm: Phydend at English Wikipedia, Public domain
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Moving to Valinda: who provides what
Valinda 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 Valinda.
Valinda has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Los Angeles and beyond, but it has little public open land.
Valinda faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
Of the losses FEMA expects in Valinda, 52% come from earthquakes and 46% from inland flooding.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Valinda’s schools beat 70% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Hacienda la Puente Unified school district. One of its 4 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. 4 public schools serve Valinda, with 1,597 students in all.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baldwin AcademyLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 519 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Valinda
Valinda has 1,081 jobs for its 9,632 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
1.7% of Valinda working residents work locally. Employers in Valinda added 95 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 1,081. In Valinda, the average trip to work is 30 minutes. The top destinations are Los Angeles (14%), Industry (7%) and West Covina (4%).
| Valinda | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 7.3% | 14% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 30 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $100,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers in Valinda
January nights average 45.6°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 87.8°.
In Valinda, the January low is 46°F. It almost never snows.
| Valinda | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 46°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 88°F | 89°F | 85°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Health in Valinda trails 51% of U.S. towns
Against the 8,574 U.S. towns with household incomes like Valinda’s, it is less healthy than 74%, so it trails even them.
A quarter of adults worry about having enough food in Valinda. The town beats the California average on 7 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 14.
| Valinda | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 36% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 69% | 72% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Valinda | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.3% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with COPD | 4.1% | 5.1% |
| More uninsured adults | 16.8% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Valinda has set aside 0.7% of its land for conservation
Just 10 of its 1,285 acres are conserved, so there is little public open land in Valinda itself; its outdoors grade is C−.
Walkers can cover 0.3 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. Parks and preserves in Valinda: one, of 10 acres.
| Valinda | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.2 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.7% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Rimgrove Park | — | 10 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Valinda’s grade for cost of living is a D
The share of households in Valinda who are owner-occupiers: 79%. The median rent here is $1,829 a month.
| Valinda | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 79% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,829 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Valinda
Colleges nearby
47 within 15 miles of the center of Valinda
About 8 of every 100 Valinda residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About Valinda
Census-designated place in California, United States
Valinda is a census-designated place (CDP) in the San Gabriel Valley, in Los Angeles County, California, in the United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 22,437, down from 22,822 at the 2010 census.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 2.0 sq mi
- Elevation
- 348 ft
- Area code
- 626
Valinda’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Valinda.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valinda | #229 | B− | D | — | B+ | B− |
| West Covina | #387 | C | D− | C | B+ | B+ |
| La Puente | #461 | C− | D | C | B+ | C+ |
| Industry | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Valinda reports no FBI crime data of its own. Industry isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Valinda with a neighbor →
Questions about Valinda
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Valinda, CA a good place to live?
Valinda grades B− overall, better than 47% of U.S. towns and #229 of 841 in California. It grades B− for health and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Valinda, CA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.