A typical home in each town, bought with 20% down at 6.3% for 30 years, plus property tax at the town’s own rate and insurance. Change the numbers to fit you.

Down paymentRate%

Pasadena$6,850/mo

Typical home $1.19M (Zillow) · tax rate 0.63% · or rent about $2,265/mo · Housing →

East Pasadena$6,260/mo

Typical home $1.07M (Census) · tax rate 0.73% · or rent about $2,229/mo · Housing →

The difference: $590 a month, about $7,000 a year, between Pasadena and East Pasadena.

Estimates, not a quote: your price, rate, tax bill and insurance will differ. Tax rate = the Census median tax bill over the median home value.

Where they are

Pasadena and East Pasadena share a border

And the people who already live in one and work in the other.

PasadenaEast Pasadena

Pasadena ↔ East Pasadena3.8 miles apart · They share a border

Who commutes between them

340 East Pasadena residents work in Pasadena (14.4% of its workers)

Work & commute in East Pasadena →

Report cards

East Pasadena places higher on 11 of 18 CA lists

Our letter grades for safety, schools and health, then every California ranking list both towns are on. A grade is one measure; read the page behind it.

Safety

DPasadenaSafer than 13% of U.S. towns –East PasadenaNot graded

Schools

B+PasadenaBetter than 67% of districts in the state –East PasadenaNot graded

Health

A−PasadenaHealthier than 83% of U.S. towns AEast PasadenaHealthier than 89% of U.S. towns

4Pasadena

11East Pasadena

Lists won, of 18 where both are ranked. Ties go to nobody.

Most conserved landOutdoors · 777 towns #179#754 Most remote workersWork · 801 towns #105#367 Most walkableOutdoors · 841 towns #252#31 Fastest growingGrowth · 816 towns #582#705 Closest to a top hospitalHealth · 844 towns #245#146 Lowest obesityHealth · 844 towns #150#60 Lowest depressionHealth · 844 towns #99#20 HealthiestHealth · 844 towns #229#153

Left end = #1 in California. Showing the lists where the towns are furthest apart. All of Pasadena’s rankings →

Life in each

What daily life feels like in each

The weather, the land, the history and the people, row by row. None of it is a grade: more snow is a plus to a skier.

Seasons

PasadenaEast Pasadena

Snow a year0″0″

Hazard risk (U.S. pctl)91st 91st

Outdoors & history

PasadenaEast Pasadena

Trails40 mi 0 mi

Conserved land13.5%0.2%

Settled1886 —

National Register places124 —

Archive photos36 9

Community

PasadenaEast Pasadena

Library hours a week54 hrs —

Colleges in town9 —

Posts this month0 0

Neighbors joined1 0

A dot marks the most on each row. Climate: NOAA 1991–2020 normals at the nearest station. Hazard risk: FEMA National Risk Index, expected yearly damage vs U.S. towns.

Everything, side by side

What matters to you?

Pick a few. Those rows jump to the top and the best fit on each is marked. There’s no overall score: what matters is up to you.

Only big differences vs California average

PasadenaEast Pasadena

People

Population 136,969Highest 5,479Lowest

Growth since 20102010 → 2020 census +1.2%Highest CA: +6.1% -2%Lowest CA: +6.1%

Median age 40.1±0.6Lowest 6% above CA 45±2.2Highest 19% above CA

Kids under 18 16.7%±0.9Lowest CA: 22% 18.2%±3.8Highest CA: 22%

East Pasadena and Pasadena are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Age 65+ 17.4%±0.8Lowest CA: 15.7% 22.9%±4.4Highest CA: 15.7%

Bachelor’s degree+adults 25+ 56.1%Lowest CA: 37.1% 56.8%Highest CA: 37.1%

Enrolled in collegeshare of residents 7.7%±0.6Highest CA: 7.6% 4.1%±2Lowest CA: 7.6%

Cost of living

Household incomemedian $105,192±$3kLowest 6% above CA $109,136±$20kHighest 10% above CA

East Pasadena and Pasadena are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Home valuemedian, owner-occupied $1,093,300±$25kHighest 49% above CA $1,069,200±$129kLowest 46% above CA

Pasadena and East Pasadena are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Rentmedian gross, monthly $2,265±$38Highest 11% above CA $2,229±$339Lowest 9% above CA

Pasadena and East Pasadena are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Property taxmedian, yearly $6,843Lowest 34% above CA $7,823Highest 53% above CA

Renters paying 30%+of income on rent 52.9%±2.9Lowest CA: 55.3% 65%±14.7Highest CA: 55.3%

East Pasadena and Pasadena are within the Census margin of error here, so we can’t say which is really higher.

Below poverty line 13.3%Highest CA: 12% 9.3%Lowest CA: 12%

Housing

Homeownersof occupied homes 42.5%Lowest CA: 55.9% 72.4%Highest CA: 55.9%

Typical home builtmedian year 1961Highest 15 yrs older than CA 1950Lowest 26 yrs older than CA

Getting to work

Average commuteone way 27 minHighest 6% below CA 26 minLowest 8% below CA

Work from home 27.6%±1.5Highest CA: 17.2% 14.1%±4.4Lowest CA: 17.2%

Work in townworking residents 20.3%Highest 3.8%Lowest

Typical commute distancemedian, straight-line 10.8 miLowest 11.8 miHighest

Jobs per working residentover 1.5 = a job hub 1.76Highest 0.86Lowest

Top workplaceoutside town Los Angeles (29%)Los Angeles (23%)

Between these townsresidents who work in the others Few work in East Pasadena14% work in Pasadena

Outdoors

Conserved landshare of the town 13.5%Highest 0.2%Lowest

Trailsmapped miles 39.8 miHighest 0.2 miLowest

Trail densitymiles per sq mi 1.7 miHighest 0.2 miLowest

Parks & preservesnamed on the map 31Highest 1Lowest

Street connectivityintersections per sq mi, a walkability measure 98.2Lowest 157Highest

Schools

Public school scoresrank in state, math + reading #150 of 574 in CA—

School district Learning Works District · Pasadena Rosebud Academy District—

High school in town Options For Youth - Duarte Inc—

Students per teacherat that high school 28.0 —

California average“±” Census margin of errorACS 2020–2024

Deciding?

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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2010 & 2020 censuses, LEHD commute flows; Zillow Home Value Index; NCES Common Core of Data; FBI crime reporting; CDC PLACES; FEMA National Risk Index; NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020; USGS PAD-US and OpenStreetMap. “±” is the Census margin of error; differences inside it are never called. Property tax is top-coded by the Census at $10,000+. There is no overall score: which town is better depends on what matters to you.

Pasadena vs East Pasadena

Two towns, two different strengths

Where they part ways

A typical home costs $590 more a month in Pasadena

Pasadena and East Pasadena share a border

East Pasadena places higher on 11 of 18 CA lists

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