Lancaster‘s open house list runs a lower median price than Palmdale‘s, 530,000 against 557,450, but the two cities land within a few dollars of each other on price per square foot. The real difference between them shows up in home size and in how far each one sits from the job hubs that draw commuters out of the Antelope Valley.

I pulled the open house feed for Los Angeles County on Sunday, November 1 at 6:07 a.m. Pacific. At that pull, open houses in Lancaster covered 30 homes and Palmdale’s list covered 28. Both lists were entirely hosted open houses, with no self-tour or Opendoor listings in either city at this pull. Across the full county feed of 2,094 homes, the median asking price was 1,149,900 and the median price per square foot was 678, which puts both Antelope Valley cities well below the countywide figure.

Price and Size Side by Side

Lancaster’s median asking price was 530,000 against a median of 1,900 square feet, for a median price per square foot of 250. Palmdale’s median asking price was 557,450 against a median of 2,001 square feet, for a median price per square foot of 284. Lancaster’s asking prices on the list ranged from 154,000 to 929,999. Palmdale’s ranged from 359,900 to 859,000.

Source: the Open Houses in Los Angeles County open house feed, pulled Sunday, November 1, 2026, 06:07 America/Los_Angeles.

Palmdale’s homes on this list run larger and cost more per square foot, while Lancaster’s list is split across a wider price range, with 5 of its 30 homes under 400,000 against 2 of Palmdale’s 28 in that same band. Most of both lists sit in the 400K to 750K band: 24 homes in Lancaster and 24 in Palmdale. That band detail matters for anyone comparing the two cities home by home, since it shows the bulk of both lists sitting in the same price tier even though Lancaster’s overall median lands slightly lower.

Bedroom Counts on Both Lists

Lancaster’s 30 homes break down as 12 with three bedrooms, 12 with four bedrooms and 6 with five or more. Palmdale’s 28 homes break down as 1 with two bedrooms, 12 with three bedrooms, 12 with four bedrooms and 3 with five or more. The two lists are close in bedroom mix, which means the size difference between them, 1,900 square feet median in Lancaster against 2,001 in Palmdale, comes down more to lot and floor plan than to a difference in how many bedrooms buyers are getting for the money.

Where the Homes Cluster

Lancaster’s open houses concentrate in zip code 93536, with 15 homes, followed by 93535 with 8 and 93534 with 7. Sample streets on the list there include Quartz Hill Road at 629,900 for 2,079 square feet and Brittany Lane at 569,900 for 1,789 square feet, both in 93536, alongside 179th Street East at 364,000 for 851 square feet in 93535.

Palmdale’s list clusters even more tightly in 93551, with 15 of its 28 homes, then 93550 with 8 and 93552 with 4. Streets there include Gorham Lane at 610,000 for 2,394 square feet and Avenida Esplendida at 599,900 for 2,044 square feet, both in 93551, with Shirley Lane at 359,900 for 1,801 square feet toward the lower end of the list.

Commute Range and the Price Per Square Foot Trade Off

Both cities sit along the State Route 14 corridor, the main route connecting the Antelope Valley to the rest of Los Angeles County and to job hubs such as Los Angeles, the Burbank media district and Pasadena. No peak hour drive time figures for this corridor were available in the data provided for this post, so I’m leaving specific minute ranges out rather than guessing.

What the feed does show clearly is the price per square foot gap between the Antelope Valley and the rest of the county. Lancaster’s median of 250 per square foot and Palmdale’s median of 284 both sit well under the countywide median of 678 across all 2,094 homes on the current list. That gap is the trade-off: homes farther from the coastal and central job hubs carry a lower price per square foot, and a buyer weighing Lancaster against Palmdale against a closer-in city such as Santa Clarita, where the median price per square foot runs 422, is really weighing square footage and price against distance from those hubs. Pasadena, by comparison, carries a median price per square foot of 779 on its 95 current open house homes, and Los Angeles itself sits at 725 across its 1,253 homes, which frames how wide the spread is across the county’s commute geography.

Reading the Two Lists Together

Lancaster’s wider price spread, from 154,000 to 929,999, means its list has more entry-level options than Palmdale’s, where the floor on this pull was 359,900. Palmdale’s tighter clustering in 93551 and its higher median square footage point to a more uniform stock of newer, larger homes in that part of the list. Lancaster’s spread across three zip codes suggests more variety in lot age and home size within the same open house weekend.

For a broader read on how these two cities compare to commute patterns across the county, I referenced the countywide breakdown in Los Angeles County commute times by city. Anyone building a weekend route through the Antelope Valley can check both current lists, along with the other 30 cities on the site, through the open houses by city page, updated every morning.

Confirm times and current pricing directly with the listing agent before visiting either list.

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