Commerce vs Signal Hill

A side-by-side comparison of Commerce and Signal Hill: population, income, housing, and more.

Commerce and Signal Hill are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Commerce has the higher population (12,072 vs 11,563 in Signal Hill). Signal Hill has the higher median household income ($102,303 vs $71,768 in Commerce). Signal Hill has the higher median home value ($725,500 vs $583,200 in Commerce).

Population, income & housing

	Commerce	Signal Hill
Population	12,072	11,563
Median age	36.1 yrs	40.9 yrs
Median household income	$71,768	$102,303
Median home value	$583,200	$725,500
Median gross rent	$1,420	$1,817
Housing units	3,484	5,037
Homeownership rate	53.7%	51.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	11.4%	38.0%
Unemployment rate	4.5%	5.3%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Commerce	Signal Hill
Population	12,830 → 12,072 (-5.9%)	11,512 → 11,563 (+0.4%)
Median household income	$47,518 → $71,768 (+51.0%)	$75,508 → $102,303 (+35.5%)
Median home value	$411,200 → $583,200 (+41.8%)	$505,900 → $725,500 (+43.4%)
Median gross rent	$1,139 → $1,420 (+24.7%)	$1,449 → $1,817 (+25.4%)

Commerce

Population

12,83012,072

Median household income

$47,518$71,768

Median home value

$411,200$583,200

Median gross rent

$1,139$1,420

Signal Hill

Population

11,51211,563

Median household income

$75,508$102,303

Median home value

$505,900$725,500

Median gross rent

$1,449$1,817

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Commerce	Signal Hill
Under 5	4.4%	5.4%
5 to 17	18.1%	12.2%
18 to 24	7.6%	5.6%
25 to 34	18.5%	19.1%
35 to 44	10.7%	13.8%
45 to 54	10.2%	18.6%
55 to 64	12.8%	12.7%
65 to 74	10.6%	7.5%
75 and over	7.0%	5.2%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Commerce	Signal Hill
White (non-Hispanic)	2.4%	25.3%
Black or African American	0.8%	7.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.1%
Asian	1.8%	24.4%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.9%
Some other race	0.0%	0.1%
Two or more races	0.5%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	94.4%	37.8%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Commerce	Signal Hill
No high school diploma	34.3%	12.1%
High school graduate	29.3%	13.8%
Some college or associate's	24.9%	36.1%
Bachelor's degree	9.5%	24.3%
Graduate or professional degree	1.9%	13.7%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Commerce	Signal Hill
Drove alone	72.7%	73.0%
Carpooled	6.9%	6.5%
Public transit	3.3%	1.9%
Walked	2.9%	1.1%
Bicycle	1.1%	0.3%
Worked from home	8.2%	16.2%
Other means	4.9%	1.1%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Commerce	Signal Hill
1-unit, detached	59.9%	37.1%
1-unit, attached	11.7%	8.6%
2 to 4 units	8.6%	10.3%
5 to 19 units	11.2%	21.6%
20 or more units	8.2%	22.4%
Mobile home & other	0.4%	0.0%

Poverty & households

	Commerce	Signal Hill
Poverty rate	13.6%	9.1%
Average household size	3.48	2.46
Mean commute (minutes)	27	31
Median year structure built	1958	1980