Palos Verdes Estates, CA: Local News, Events & Neighbors

Palos Verdes Estates is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and neighboring Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills Estates. The city was master-planned by the noted American landscape architect and planner Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. The city is located along the Southern California coastline of the Pacific Ocean. The population was 13,347 at the 2020 census, a slight decrease from its 2010 population of 13,438. Palos Verdes Estates is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, and was ranked as "California's richest suburb" in 2025. The 90274 ZIP code (covering the cities of Palos Verdes Estates and Rolling Hills) is …

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How Palos Verdes Estates ranks

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#1Highest graduation rate in CA #26Highest income in CA #27Most educated in CA All CA rankings →

Town numbers

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Area code310

Living in Palos Verdes Estates

Housing in Palos Verdes Estates

$2.71M▲ 4% in a year Typical home value · Zillow

The typical Palos Verdes Estates home is worth about $2,712,000, up 4% in a year, 255% above the California typical home.

A balanced market

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Days on market50

Sale-to-list98.6%

Sold in May12

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Safety in Palos Verdes Estates

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Safety Grade A-

Palos Verdes Estates reports less crime per resident than 75% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.

Violent crime per 1,000

Palos Verdes Estates 0.3

California 4.3

U.S. 3.3

Property crime per 1,000

Palos Verdes Estates 7.8

California 18.2

U.S. 15.5

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Schools in Palos Verdes Estates

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School Grade A-

The public schools Palos Verdes Estates’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 83% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

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DistrictPalos Verdes Peninsula UnifiedSchools5

Montemalaga ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 416 students Lunada Bay ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 329 students Palos Verdes Intermediate D-Middle · Grades 6–8 · 735 students Palos Verdes High D-High · Grades 9–12 · 1,484 students Sunrise Pre-SchoolGrades M

School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within CA. Ratings are from neighbors.