Westwood Real Estate
Westwood Real Estate
This guide to Westwood real estate covers a neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles that Wikipedia describes as a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside region. Wikipedia lists its ZIP Codes as 90024, 90025 and 90049 and refers to it as the 3.68-square-mile Westwood neighborhood. The article’s boundary table lists Sunset Boulevard on the north, Santa Monica Boulevard on the south, Sepulveda Boulevard or I-405 on the west and the Beverly Hills city limits on the east. The same table names adjacent areas that include Bel Air, Century City and Brentwood.
Read on for the neighborhood’s history, UCLA, Westwood Village, the Hammer Museum, getting around, parks, shopping, the library and schools, and the zoning and assessment tools. Current prices, rents, schools and weather follow, each with its source and date. Westwood is one of the communities in the Westside section of this site.
Westwood Real Estate By The Numbers
Westwood
Compared with 45 other Los Angeles-area communities
Why The Score Is 44
Westwood ranks above the middle on Price Growth and Rent Growth, and among the lowest on Rental Demand. The score is the average of the three.
It is not a rating of Westwood, its people or its schools, and it does not measure affordability. A higher or lower number only shows how these three housing-market numbers compare with other communities.
What The Number Means
Select a range to see what it means
Generally, price growth and rent growth are among the slowest of the communities, and more rentals sit empty than in most other communities.
- If you are a buyer
- Home price growth is generally among the slowest of the communities.
- If you are a seller
- Over the last 12 months, typical home values here generally rose less, or fell more, than in most other communities.
- If you are a tenant
- A larger share of rentals sit empty than in most other communities, and rent growth is generally among the slowest.
- If you are a landlord
- Rent growth is generally among the slowest, and the share of empty rentals is higher than in most other communities.
- If you are looking to invest
- Price growth, rent growth and rental demand generally rank among the lowest of the communities.
Generally, price growth and rent growth are slower, and more rentals sit empty, than in the typical community.
- If you are a buyer
- Home price growth is generally behind the typical community.
- If you are a seller
- Over the last 12 months, typical home values here generally rose less, or fell more, than in the typical community.
- If you are a tenant
- A larger share of rentals sit empty than in the typical community, and rent growth is generally slower.
- If you are a landlord
- Rent growth is generally slower than in the typical community, and the share of empty rentals is higher.
- If you are looking to invest
- Price growth, rent growth and rental demand generally rank below the middle of the communities.
Generally, price growth and rent growth are faster, and fewer rentals sit empty, than in the typical community.
- If you are a buyer
- Home price growth is generally ahead of the typical community.
- If you are a seller
- Over the last 12 months, typical home values here generally rose more, or fell less, than in the typical community.
- If you are a tenant
- A smaller share of rentals sit empty than in the typical community, and rent growth is generally faster.
- If you are a landlord
- Rent growth is generally faster than in the typical community, and the share of empty rentals is lower.
- If you are looking to invest
- Price growth, rent growth and rental demand generally rank above the middle of the communities.
Generally, price growth and rent growth are among the fastest of the communities, and fewer rentals sit empty than in most other communities.
- If you are a buyer
- Home price growth is generally among the fastest of the communities.
- If you are a seller
- Over the last 12 months, typical home values here generally rose more, or fell less, than in most other communities.
- If you are a tenant
- A smaller share of rentals sit empty than in most other communities, and rent growth is generally among the fastest.
- If you are a landlord
- Rent growth is generally among the fastest, and the share of empty rentals is lower than in most other communities.
- If you are looking to invest
- Price growth, rent growth and rental demand generally rank among the highest of the communities.
Based on the last 12 months of Zillow data and the Census Bureau’s rental vacancy survey, which covers several years. This compares housing-market numbers across communities. It says nothing about what a property costs or earns, and it is not a forecast, advice, or a rating of any area.
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Schools Near Westwood
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Each bar shows how Westwood ranks among the communities with figures for that measure. A fuller bar means a higher rank, not a better or worse area. The gold tick marks the middle.
Change in the typical home value over the last 12 months (Zillow). Useful to buyers, sellers and owners.
Change in the typical rent over the last 12 months (Zillow). Useful to tenants, landlords and developers.
Share of rental homes that sit empty (Census Bureau survey, 2020 to 2024, so it can run behind today’s market). Fewer empty rentals ranks higher. Useful to tenants, landlords and developers.
See how this score is calculated
The Housing Market Score compares this community with the other Los Angeles-area communities this site covers (the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, central Los Angeles and the Santa Clarita Valley). It is a resource for anyone comparing areas: buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants, investors and developers. A community with more than one ZIP code uses all of them: each ZIP code’s home values and rents count in proportion to its number of homes (the Census Bureau’s home counts), and the empty rentals and rental homes of all of them are added together. Each measure is turned into a rank from 0 to 100, then the ranks are averaged. A rank of 89 means the area is ahead of about 89 out of every 100 others on that measure. The bar below the score splits the 0 to 100 scale into four ranges (0–25, 26–49, 50–79 and 80–100). Selecting a range shows what it looks like for a buyer, seller, tenant, landlord or someone looking to invest, and the same four names label each measure bar. Price Growth is the change in Zillow’s typical home value over the last 12 months. Rent Growth is the change in Zillow’s typical rent over the last 12 months. Rental Demand is how few rental homes sit empty, from the Census Bureau’s rental vacancy rate (fewer empty rentals ranks higher). If a measure has too little data for an area, it is left out and the score says how many measures it used. The score describes housing-market numbers only. It is not a rating of the people or the neighborhood, and it is not investment advice.
Price Level
Price Level compares how high typical home values and rents are with the other communities. It is separate from the Housing Market Score and does not change it. A fuller bar means a higher rank, not a better or worse area. The gold tick marks the middle.
Westwood ranks above the middle on Home Values and Rents.
The typical home value (Zillow), with all of this community’s ZIP codes combined. Useful to buyers, sellers and owners.
The typical monthly rent (Zillow), with all of this community’s ZIP codes combined. Useful to tenants, landlords and developers.
It is not part of the Housing Market Score, and it does not measure affordability or the cost of living. It compares typical home values and rents across communities. Dollar figures are in the Market Snapshot tab.
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A Short History Of Westwood
According to Wikipedia’s Westwood article, Westwood was developed on the lands of the historic Wolfskill Ranch, which Arthur Letts purchased in 1919. It says that upon Letts’ death his son-in-law, Harold Janss, vice president of Janss Investment Company, inherited the land and began to develop the area.
The article says the selection of a new campus in the Westwood hills was announced on March 21, 1925, that ground was broken on September 12, 1927, that the campus opened for regular classes on September 20, 1929, and that Westwood Village was built up starting in 1929 through the 1930s.
The UCLA Campus
UCLA’s fast facts page says UCLA was founded in 1919 as the Southern Branch of the University of California and that its main campus is on 419 acres in Westwood. UCLA’s centennial fact sheet says moving day from Vermont Avenue to the Westwood campus took place on May 31, 1929. Wikipedia says that when Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympics, the UCLA dorms in Westwood served as the Olympic village.
Westwood Village
Wikipedia describes Westwood Village as a planned, 55-acre suburban shopping district immediately south of the UCLA campus. It says the Janss Investment Company, run by Harold and Edwin Janss and their father, Peter, created the Village in the late 1920s as a shopping district and headquarters of the Janss Company, and that the area opened with 34 businesses.
The Hammer Museum
The museum’s website calls it an art museum and cultural center in Los Angeles and lists its address as 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024. Its About page says it was founded by Dr. Armand Hammer, former Chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, was built adjacent to the Corporation’s international headquarters in Westwood, and opened to the public in November 1990. The same page says the Hammer Museum is one of three public arts institutions of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA.
Getting Around Westwood
Wikipedia’s Interstate 405 article, which says the entire route is known as the northern segment of the San Diego Freeway, shows exit 55A for Santa Monica Boulevard, exit 55B for Wilshire Boulevard, which it says serves Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and exit 57A for Sunset Boulevard.
Metro’s Line Schedules and Maps page lists Line 2 as Westwood – Exposition Park via Sunset Bl and Line 602 as Pacific Palisades – Westwood via Sunset Bl; the timetables for both lines are marked effective June 7, 2026. Metro’s D Line Subway Extension page says Section 3 extends the line to Westwood and shows Section 1 as opened May 8, 2026. The numbers section shows the closest rail station and its distance.
Parks And Open Space
The City’s recreation and parks website lists the Westwood Recreation Center at 1350 Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025, and names West Los Angeles as its neighborhood service area; Wikipedia’s Westwood article says the center is in Westwood. The page lists lighted soccer and baseball fields, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, indoor racquetball courts, an indoor aquatics facility and a play area.
The numbers section also counts the parks, grocery stores, restaurants and coffee shops within one mile, using OpenStreetMap.
Shopping And Dining
Wikipedia’s Westwood article describes Westwood Village, covered above, as an on-street shopping, dining and entertainment district north of Wilshire.
Library, Schools And Colleges
The Los Angeles Public Library’s Westwood Branch Library is at 1246 Glendon Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024, with a parking lot, a bike rack, public computers, Wi-Fi and wireless printing. Wikipedia’s Westwood article says the Los Angeles Unified School District operates public schools. The district’s website says it covers 710 square miles, including most of the city of Los Angeles, and links to School Search, School Directory and Enroll Now pages.
UCLA, described above, has its website at ucla.edu. The numbers section lists nearby K-12 and adult schools, colleges and trade schools by distance, with links to their official pages. School attendance areas are set by the school district, so confirm them with the district for any address you are considering.
Look Up A Westwood Address
Free public tools let anyone check an address’s zoning and assessment details. ZIMAS is a web-based mapping tool from City Planning that provides zoning information for properties located in Los Angeles. The County Office of the Assessor also has a public portal for property assessment information. City Planning’s Westwood Community Plan page says the plan area includes the neighborhoods of Westwood, Westwood Village, North Westwood Village, and the University of California, Los Angeles campus.
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