Rent or Buy? See How Baldwin Park Home Ownership Rates Compare

Proponents of home ownership argue that it ties people more closely to a community and makes people more invested in taking care of a neighborhood.  

There are many factors that determine how much of a community is made up of homeowners vs. renters - age of the community, income, whether a town is mostly single-family housing or multi-family housing. 

The Patch-created map above shows the percentage of the town's population that owns a home, based on figures from the 2010 census. A full window view of the map is available here.

Baldwin Park, as the map shows, has a fairly rate of home ownership with 61.1 percent of the population living in a home they own. Nearby neighbors have similar or higher rates -66.8 percent in West Covina, 72.3 percent in Irwindale, 66.7 percent in Arcadia, 60.6 percent in Covina and 67.7 percent in Sierra Madre.

With the above map on left you can compare the different home ownership rates across L.A. County - the redder cities have the lowest rate, the greener the highest and the shades of orange and yellow are in between.

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