Dumpster rental prices by size in Los Angeles County.

Every size and what it costs

Dumpsters are sold by volume in cubic yards, and priced as a flat rate rather than by the day. The rate you are quoted covers delivery, a set rental period, pickup, and the landfill or recycling fees on the weight included with that size.

Where a range is shown, it is the spread between the real haulers who stock that size. Where a single figure is shown, only one hauler in the network carries it, so there is no range to give.

How much is a 10 yard dumpster?

$375 to $675 in Los Angeles County, and it is the size most people end up renting. About 10 feet long, 7 wide and 4 tall, so it sits inside one driveway space with room to open the swing door at the back. Around 2 tons is included.

That $300 spread is real and it is geographic. The low end is a flat-rate Valley hauler inside their discounted pricing area, where a 10 yard is $375. The same size from a same-day operator further into the basin is $525, and $675 once you are outside their core zone. Nothing about the container differs; you are paying for how far the truck drives and how busy that yard is.

For household debris a 10 yard almost never approaches its 2 ton allowance, so the tonnage is rarely what decides this size. Volume is. A two-car garage of accumulated boxes and furniture will fill one and leave you wanting the next size up.

How much is a 20 yard dumpster?

$720 to $780, with roughly 3 tons included. That is an unusually tight range, because every hauler that stocks a 20 yard has landed on similar pricing for it.

At about 14 feet by 7 by 6, the 20 yard has the same footprint as a 15 yard with taller walls, which is where the extra volume comes from. It is the default for a whole-home cleanout, a roof tear-off or a gut remodel.

Worth knowing before you size up to it: those 6-foot walls mean everything gets lifted higher. If your load is heavy rather than bulky, you will hit 3 tons before the container looks full, and the extra height works against you the whole time.

The small end: 3 and 15 yard prices

The 3 yard is the cheapest container you can rent here, $250 to $325. It is a front-load bin rather than a roll-off, roughly 6 feet by 4 by 4, and it fits in a single parking space. Weight allowances are correspondingly small, around 800 pounds with one hauler, so it is for bulky light material: boxes, packaging, light office clear-outs.

The 15 yard is $620 and only one hauler in the network stocks it. It shares the 10 yard's 4-foot walls with more length, which makes it the quiet best pick for a kitchen tear-out or a flooring job where you want low sides but more room than a 10 yard gives.

If you are choosing between the sizes at this end, the small dumpster guide covers the 3, 10 and 15 yard in detail, including exact dimensions and what fits in each.

The large end: 25 and 40 yard prices

A 25 yard runs $575 to $750 and a 40 yard runs $725 to $920, with about 4 tons included on the 40. Note the overlap: a 25 yard at the top of its range costs more than a 40 yard at the bottom of its. They come from different haulers in different parts of the county, so the larger container is genuinely sometimes the cheaper one. Always compare both for your own ZIP before assuming bigger means more.

The real constraint at this end is not money, it is space. A 40 yard needs its own 20 feet plus about 60 feet of straight clear approach for the truck to roll it off, and nothing overhead. Most residential driveways cannot take one, which is how these end up in the street and in the permit process.

Street placement needs a permit in essentially every LA County city, and the department differs in each. The permit guide lists the rule and the counter for each one.

Lowboy prices, and why heavy material is priced differently

A lowboy is a short, wide container with walls around 2 to 3 feet instead of 4 to 6. It exists because of weight, not volume. Concrete, dirt, brick and asphalt reach the truck's legal axle limit while a tall container is barely a third full, so haulers put that material in a shallow box where the weight spreads out and the load stays legal.

A 6 yard lowboy is $520 to $625 and a 12 yard lowboy is $720. One hauler also splits their 10 yard lowboy by how clean the load is: $575 to $750 for a mixed load with rebar, roots or sod in it, and $675 to $850 for a clean load of pure concrete or dirt. The clean load costs more up front and includes 10 tons instead of 3, because clean inert material is recycled rather than landfilled.

Per cubic yard a lowboy looks expensive. For heavy material it is still the cheaper answer, because the alternative is paying for volume in a tall container that you are not legally allowed to use.

Full detail on clean versus mixed loads is in the concrete and dirt guide.

What moves the price within a size

Two haulers quoting the same size at different numbers is normal here, and the reasons are mechanical.

Distance is the first. Two of the haulers on this site include the first 5 miles from their yard and add about $4 per mile after that, so an identical 10 yard costs more the further out you are.

Pricing zones are the second. The other two price by flat area instead of by mile, which produces sharper edges: one ZIP can be $75 cheaper on every single size than the ZIP next to it, with no gradual middle. That is why the honest answer to what a size costs is always a range until you give an address.

Material is the third. One hauler adds $20 for construction, roofing or mixed loads over their household rate. The others fold material into which product you get instead, which is how the lowboy pricing above works.

What can be added after the flat rate

Three charges can appear on an invoice that were not in the quote, and all three are avoidable.

Extra days. Most haulers include 7 days, one includes 14, and beyond that it is $15 to $25 per day. There is never a penalty for finishing early, so call for pickup when you are done rather than sitting on the container.

Overweight. Every size carries a tonnage allowance, and over it you pay $110 to $145 per ton depending on the hauler. This is what catches people out on dense material, not on household debris.

Dry run. If the truck arrives and cannot deliver or collect, because of a parked car, a locked gate, a low branch or a blocked approach, that is billed at $75 to $200. Walking the truck's path before the delivery date is the whole prevention.

Every line item that can appear on an invoice is itemised in the cost guide.

Choosing the size that actually costs you least

People underestimate volume and overestimate weight, almost without exception. A garage that looks like two pickup loads is usually three, and a 10 yard of household debris rarely gets near its 2 tons.

So when you are between two sizes on ordinary mixed debris, going one up is nearly always cheaper than overfilling the smaller container and paying for a second haul. The gap between a 10 yard and a 15 yard is smaller than a second delivery.

The rule inverts on anything dense. Concrete, dirt, brick, tile and shingles hit the weight allowance while the box still looks half empty, and there the correct answer is a small lowboy, not a large roll-off.

Not sure which size fits your job? The size guide has a 30-second picker, or you can see all of them modelled to scale in 3D.

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