In Sports, LA’s No. 1
What is America’s No. 1 sports-loving city? It’s Los Angeles, according to a study out last week.
WalletHub, a personal finance website, compared 50 fan-related metrics in 230 U.S. towns and cities across the five major sports. (One such metric: how many people consider themselves a fan.) Los Angeles came in first in basketball (Boston was second); first in soccer (Seattle was second); third in baseball (New York was first); fifth in football (Pittsburg was first), and 34th in hockey (Boston was first). Each sport was weighted; football, the most popular sport, was worth much more than hockey, for example.
Add it all up, according to WalletHub, and Angelenos love sports more than fans in any other city. L.A. was followed, in order, by Boston, New York, Pittsburg and Dallas.
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It’s probably not a surprise, but Los Angeles has the highest number of pricey ZIP codes of any city, with seven, followed by New York and Newport Beach, with six each.
That’s according to an annual survey from RealtyHop, a residential real estate website aimed at investors. It claims it pulled every residential listing advertised this year – 3.64 million in all – and ranked them by median home price in each ZIP code.
L.A.’s most expensive ZIP code? That’s not a surprise either. It’s 90210 in Beverly Hills where the median price was just a tick under $6.7 million. The most expensive in the country is 94027 in Atherton, which is near Palo Alto in the Bay Area. The median home price there: $9 million.
Expensive homes seem to be getting even pricier, RealtyHop’s numbers suggest. In all, 60 ZIP codes this year have a median price of at least $2.5 million, way up from 47 last year. And the median price in the 100 most expensive ZIP codes is up more than 11% this year to $2.75 million.
The remaining six most expensive ZIP codes in Los Angeles, in order: 90272 in Pacific Palisades with a median home price of just under $4 million; 90077 in Bel Air with a median price of $3.79 million; 91436 in Encino with $2.6 million; 90291 in Venice, a little under $2.5 million; 90049 in Brentwood with $2.35 million, and 90048 in Beverly Grove with $2.2 million.
The Insider column is compiled by Editor-in-Chief Charles Crumpley. He can be reached at [email protected].
