Southern California has folks who’ve owned their home just about as long as anywhere in the nation. And the region also features some of the shortest-tenured owners, too.

A study by Value Penguin of 318 U.S. cities with populations in excess of 100,000 shows the diversity of ownership length in the four counties covered by the Southern California News Group.

Take East Los Angeles. That’s where the median length of ownership is 18.4 years as of 2018, the second-longest nationally. Detroit was tops at 20.3 years. East L.A. ranked No. 1 statewide.

Compare that to Temecula, where homeowners have stayed a median 9.9 years. That’s the 23rd shortest ownership among the large cities studied. The national low was Enterprise, Nevada, at 6.6 years. Temecula has the shortest ownership among the 74 California cities in the study.

These two SoCal cities are fairly representative of what the study tells us about the region: Older cities in Los Angeles County, where new developments are distant memories, have the longest-owning residents; fast-growing towns in the Inland Empire have the newest homeowners.

This isn’t just statistical trivia or fodder for real estate agents. The breadth of ownership length shows how tricky solving many housing issues can be. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions.

Here’s a look at the other Southern California cities in the study, in order of the national rank of ownership length (plus their rank among the 74 California cities studied). Note, median ownership runs 13.3 years nationwide …

No. 8 West Covina: 16.5 years (No. 2 statewide)

No. 10 Inglewood: 16.3 years (No. 3 statewide)

No. 16 Torrance: 15.8 years (No. 5 statewide)

No. 19 Norwalk: 15.7 years (No. 6 statewide)

No. 29 El Monte: 15.2 years (No. 8 statewide)

No. 30 Downey: 15.2 years (No. 9 statewide)

No. 31 Burbank: 15.2 years (No. 10 statewide)

No. 41 Santa Ana: 14.9 years (No. 11 statewide)

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No. 46 Huntington Beach: 14.8 years (No. 13 statewide)

No. 48 Glendale: 14.8 years (No. 14 statewide)

No. 49 Garden Grove: 14.8 years (No. 15 statewide)

No. 50 Compton: 14.8 years (No. 16 statewide)

No. 56 Pomona: 14.4 years (No. 17 statewide)

No. 57 Orange: 14.4 years (No. 18 statewide)

No. 61 Los Angeles: 14.4 years (No. 19 statewide)

No. 62 Long Beach: 14.4 years (No. 20 statewide)

No. 67 Costa Mesa: 14.2 years (No. 21 statewide)

No. 73 Anaheim: 14.1 years (No. 22 statewide)

No. 87 Ontario: 13.7 years (No. 26 statewide)

No. 91 San Bernardino: 13.6 years (No. 28 statewide)

No. 95 Pasadena: 13.5 years (No. 31 statewide)

No. 98 Fullerton: 13.5 years (No. 33 statewide)

No. 112 Riverside: 13.2 years (No. 35 statewide)

No. 113 Rialto: 13.2 years (No. 36 statewide)

No. 163 Rancho Cucamonga: 12.5 years (No. 46 statewide)

No. 217 Fontana: 11.7 years (No. 58 statewide)

No. 218 Corona: 11.7 years (No. 59 statewide)

No. 224 Moreno Valley: 11.6 years (No. 61 statewide)

No. 237 Lancaster: 11.3 years (No. 63 statewide)

No. 248 Irvine: 11.1 years (No. 65 statewide)