Areas / PasadenaLA County

Websites for businesses in Pasadena.

Pasadena runs its own utility (Pasadena Water and Power), protects mature native trees by ordinance, and has multiple designated landmark districts.

Pasadena City Hall with its domed tower and arched entrance under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
Photo RBerteig, CC BY 2.0
Nº01 / The groundCensus figures

Pasadena by the numbers.

137,200People, ACS 2024
$105,048Median household income
$1,209,600Median home value
40Median age
27.6%Born outside the U.S.
22.96Square miles
1886Incorporated
Who employs Pasadena

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kaiser Permanente, Caltech, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena City College, Pasadena Unified School District, ArtCenter College of Design.

What that means for a local business

A settled, higher-income base that vets a business online before it calls. Reviews, a real service area and a working booking flow do the selling. Home values past a million dollars mean homeowners spend real money on their properties and expect the people who work on them to look established.

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, via Census Reporter. 2020 census count 138,699.

Nº02 / LocalHow Pasadena hires

Knowing Pasadena.

Pasadena organizes itself around Colorado Boulevard, from Old Pasadena’s storefronts east through the Playhouse District and out to Hastings Ranch, with Lake Avenue as the north-south spine. It is a city of institutions, Caltech, JPL, the Rose Bowl, and residents vet the people who work on their homes accordingly.

Permits go through Pasadena’s own permit center, utilities through Pasadena Water and Power, and design review applies wherever a landmark district is involved. Contractors who treat those processes as routine hold an edge over regional outfits.

The Rose Parade and Rose Bowl events bend traffic and scheduling every winter, ArtNight and the Bungalow Heaven home tour keep the preservation culture visible, and summer heat in the San Gabriel Valley arrives earlier and stays later than it does near the coast.

Areas we cover

Bungalow Heaven, Madison Heights, Linda Vista, Hastings Ranch, Old Pasadena, Garfield Heights, San Rafael.

Nº03 / Professions28 pages written for Pasadena

Every profession, in Pasadena.

Each link is a page written for that profession in this city.

Personal care and retail2
Real estate1
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