Granada Hills

The short version

Median price

$910K–$1.15M

ZIP codes

91344

Region

Northwest San Fernando Valley

County

Los Angeles County

Schools covered

6 rated

Redfin put the Granada Hills median sale price at about $980,000 for the three months ending August 2026 — down 4.8% year over year, at $578 per square foot, 40 days on market, and a Compete Score of 67, which is a softer and less competitive market than the neighborhood's reputation suggests. A single median also hides the split that actually decides a buyer's budget here: Redfin's sub-area data through March 2026 put Granada Hills North at a $1,150,000 median, up 2.7% year over year, against $910,000 in Granada Hills South. Those are closed sale prices across all property types, and the residential ZIP is 91344 — 91394 is a post-office-box ZIP, not a second neighborhood.

About Granada Hills

Granada Hills is a residential neighborhood at the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley, bounded by Porter Ranch to the north and west, Northridge to the south, Mission Hills to the east, and the Santa Susana Mountains above it. Families buy here for one thing above all others: Granada Hills Charter, the independent TK–12 public charter that enrolled about 6,140 students in 2025–26 and won its tenth U.S. Academic Decathlon national title in April 2026, sits inside the neighborhood, and the houses around it cost meaningfully less than comparable inventory in Porter Ranch. The housing stock is mostly 1950s–1970s ranch homes on 6,000–10,000-square-foot lots, and the neighborhood splits into two real sub-markets — hillside Granada Hills North around the Knollwood golf course, and flatter, more affordable Granada Hills South. Day to day it is a walkable-in-patches, car-dependent Valley neighborhood with a genuine town center: Chatsworth Street closes down for a Friday night farmers market, O'Melveny Park puts 672 acres of ridgeline at the top of the street grid, and the 118 Freeway runs straight west to Simi Valley.

Where Locals Actually Eat

Hidden gems and city-specific favorites — no chains.

• Odyssey Restaurant & Events — the hilltop dining room on Odyssey Drive, open since 1970 and reopened in December 2025 after a full remodel; steak-forward menu with its own dry-aging program and the widest Valley view in the neighborhood.
• FurnSaj Bakery & Restaurant — Lebanese saj bakery on Balboa Blvd that The Infatuation put on its 2026 list of the San Fernando Valley's best; manakish, shawarma, and saroukh stuffed with cheese, onion, and parsley.
• Mercado Buenos Aires — Argentine restaurant, bakery, and grocery in one on Devonshire St; empanadas, a full parrilla, and Argentine wine. The family has run the original Van Nuys store for more than three decades.
• Main Kitchen Cafe — Black-owned scratch-kitchen breakfast and lunch counter on Chatsworth St, open since 2014; catfish and grits, French toast, and a daytime-only 8am–2pm schedule.
• Seoul Time — a small Korean room on San Fernando Mission Blvd; soy garlic fried chicken, tteokbokki, and spicy chicken rice bowls, closed Sundays.
• Siam Cuisine — longtime neighborhood Thai on Balboa Blvd with an unusually long menu; pad see ew and yellow curry are what regulars order.

Just Opened

New to Granada Hills — restaurants, businesses, and entertainment that weren't here last year.

• Lilit's International Kitchen — soft-opened September 5, 2026 at 17723½ Chatsworth St, grown out of a stall at the Granada Hills Farmers Market.
• Rose Cafe & Bakery — a small breakfast-and-lunch cafe with a bakery case that opened around the turn of 2026 at Chatsworth St and Yarmouth Ave.
• Urban Strip Coffee & Boba — Vietnamese coffee and boba on Zelzah Ave, open since about October 2025.
• Granada Hills Pool — reopened June 13, 2026 after being closed since 2023 — a new 9,000-square-foot year-round heated pool plus a 3,100-square-foot splash pad.

Openings verified as of September 2026.

Top-Rated Schools

• Granada Hills Charter (Zelzah Campus) — independent TK–12 charter on Zelzah Ave and the single biggest driver of local demand — about 6,140 students in 2025–26, an IB World School since 2011, ten U.S. Academic Decathlon national titles including April 2026, and John Elway among its alumni. Its TK–8 Devonshire campus is in Northridge, not Granada Hills.
• Patrick Henry Middle School — LAUSD middle school on San Jose St serving grades 6–8, with a Computer/Math/Science magnet.
• Robert Frost Middle School — LAUSD middle school on Bradford Pl with a Gifted/Music Conservatory magnet and a STEAM magnet; the common middle step for both Granada Hills and Porter Ranch families.
• El Oro Way Charter for Enriched Studies — LAUSD affiliated charter elementary serving roughly 444 students in K–5, on El Oro Way in the hills above Balboa Blvd.
• Tulsa School for Advanced Studies — LAUSD elementary on Tulsa St, renamed from Tulsa Street Elementary and named a 2025 California Distinguished School. Danube Avenue Elementary, also in Granada Hills, earned the same 2025 recognition.
• Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences — LAUSD public high school on Balboa Blvd for grades 9–12 — the in-neighborhood alternative for families who do not land a Granada Hills Charter seat. Attendance boundaries vary block by block, so confirm any address with LAUSD in writing before it drives an offer.

Fun Places & Local Character

• O'Melveny Park — 672 acres on Sesnon Blvd, the second-largest park in the City of Los Angeles after Griffith Park; the January 2025 Archer Fire burned 19 acres of its eastern hills without damaging structures.
• The White Oak Avenue deodar cedars — more than 100 Himalayan deodars planted in 1932 along three-quarters of a mile of White Oak Ave, declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument on August 3, 1966, and used as the backdrop for the flying-bicycle scenes in E.T.
• Granada Hills Certified Farmers Market — Fridays from 6 to 10pm at Chatsworth St and White Oak Ave with more than 50 vendors — the Valley's after-dark farmers market and the closest thing the neighborhood has to a town square.
• Knollwood Golf Course — an 18-hole William F. Bell course that opened in 1956 on Balboa Blvd. Despite the "Knollwood Country Club" name attached to the surrounding tract, the course itself is owned by Los Angeles County and operated as a public course by American Golf.
• Granada Hills Holiday Parade — the 42nd annual ran on December 7, 2025 down Chatsworth St from Petit Ave to Zelzah Ave, billed as the San Fernando Valley's largest; the 2025 theme saluted the community's 100th anniversary.
• Bee Canyon Park and Mission Point — the Sesnon Blvd trailhead into the Santa Susana foothills; Mission Point via Bee Canyon is a 5.6-mile out-and-back and the local benchmark hike.

What's Coming & What to Watch

Fire hazard remapping and the insurance question — CAL FIRE's recommended Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps, released for the City of Los Angeles on March 24, 2025, pushed “Very High” designations farther into the San Fernando Valley, and Granada Hills sits directly below the Santa Susana Mountains that carried the 2019 Saddleridge Fire across 8,799 acres of Sylmar, Granada Hills, and Porter Ranch. The state's Insurance Commissioner has noted the maps do not themselves set rates, but they shape what carriers will write. Get binding quotes before you release a contingency, not after.

Solaterra on San Fernando Mission Boulevard — 102 rental townhomes at 16201 San Fernando Mission Blvd began leasing in January 2026 at roughly $4,850 to $5,460 a month, and the approved plan carries a further 140 apartments and about 6,000 square feet of shops with no announced date. It is the largest block of new rental supply the area has absorbed in years and the clearest test of what the top of the local rent comps will hold.

The Citywide Housing Incentive Program — adopted by the Los Angeles City Council on February 7, 2025 as the city's main rezoning vehicle for its 255,433-unit state housing obligation, it applies to commercial and multifamily zones and excludes single-family zones. In practice that concentrates new density on the Chatsworth Street, Balboa Boulevard, and San Fernando Mission Boulevard corridors rather than inside the ranch-house tracts.

Measure ULA on the upper tier — Granada Hills is in the City of Los Angeles, so the ULA transfer tax applies, and its thresholds step up with inflation every July. For closings after June 30, 2026 the rate is 4% on sales above $5.4M and 5.5% at $10.9M or more, charged on the entire price rather than the excess. Almost no Granada Hills inventory reaches those numbers, but a Knollwood-area estate can.