Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
A town of 14,958.
Walnut Park earns a C−, 548th of 841 graded towns in California, mostly because of health. Residents are less healthy than 77% of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. In its favor, it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 94% of U.S. towns. On history, just 58 of California’s 1,063 towns do better. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 83% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top.
Where Walnut Park beats most towns.
Where Walnut Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Walnut Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Census counts: 8,925 in 1970, 15,214 in 2020. The archive holds 3 old photos and papers going back to 1926 and 8 maps from 1896 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Walnut Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw7 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw5 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw12 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw5 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Big draw6 mi Stadium & arenaCrypto.com Arena
Big draw21 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a yearSoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0 · Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Kriddl, CC0 · Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: CanonStarGal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Crypto.com Arena: Troutfarm27, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Disneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0
Walnut Park 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.
Ordered by what stands out in Walnut Park.
Walnut Park has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Los Angeles and beyond.
One declared disaster, in 2025, has brought federal aid to Walnut Park households. FEMA puts 92% of the town’s expected hazard losses down to earthquakes, and 7% to inland flooding.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. Its public schools are run by the Los Angeles Unified school district. The 2 public schools in Walnut Park teach 963 students between them.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Park ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 555 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
The share of adults in Walnut Park who get no exercise outside work is 37%, where California’s towns sit at 24% and U.S. towns at 25%. For adults locally, the share who feel lonely is 44%. CDC measures, 32 in all: Walnut Park beats California on 2 and trails on 20.
| Walnut Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 22% | 19% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 24% | 25% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Walnut Park | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 18.4% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 25.7% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Walnut Park has 1,168 jobs for its 5,590 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. Jobs based here grew from 869 in 2013 to 1,168.
The top destinations are Los Angeles (32%), Vernon (4%) and Huntington Park (3%). Just 2% of Walnut Park’s working residents have a job in town. This California town had 1,168 jobs in 2023, up 299 from 2013. Its average trip to work is 33 minutes, above both California’s towns (28 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes).
| Walnut Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Work from home | 7.9% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.1% | 6.6% | 8% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
January nights average 47.4°, milder than in 98% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 84°.
It almost never snows. The January low locally is 47°F.
| Walnut Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January low | 47°F | 40°F | 22°F |
| July high | 84°F | 89°F | 85°F |
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Walnut Nature Park | — | 3 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
For Walnut Park, the midpoint rent is $1,483 a month. The share of households in Walnut Park who are owner-occupiers: 51%.
| Walnut Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 51% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,483 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
75 within 15 miles of the center of Walnut Park
About 6 of every 100 Walnut Park residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States
Walnut Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States, adjacent to Florence-Graham, Huntington Park and South Gate. The population was 15,214 at the 2020 census, a drop from 15,966 at the 2010 census.
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3 towns share a border with Walnut Park.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Florence-Graham (D) comes closest.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Park | #548 | C− | D | — | B− | C− |
| South Gate | #640 | D | D | D | B− | C |
| Huntington Park | #738 | D− | D | D | B− | C− |
| Florence-Graham | #622 | D | D | — | B− | D |
Walnut Park and Florence-Graham report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Walnut Park with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
It grades C− for health and B− for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $589,000, 23% 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.
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