Alpaugh, California.
Typical home $216,362 (+9.8% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$626 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $19,232 +10%
- $197,129$216,362 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,149 +25%
- $173,212$216,362 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alpaugh$1,136
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 16 years.
Typical home values in Alpaugh, CA rose 9.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alpaugh, Tulare County, California
Alpaugh, in Tulare County, had 871 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Tulare County was 10.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tulare County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alpaugh is a small farming community in the San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County. Its residents are far younger than in most American towns, and very few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes here cost less than in much of California, and the typical commute is a fairly long one by the standards of a place this small. Winters are mild and cool, with little or no snow, and summers are hot and dry, with only a small amount of rain over the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, shops and manufacturing. Across Tulare County, some of the largest workplaces are Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia Unified and Sunview Vineyards of California. Unemployment across the county is high and has barely changed from a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Household incomes in the county are modest by California standards.
Things to do. Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, a protected historic site, is a short drive away, as is Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area for birds and other wildlife. Deer Creek, a river, is also a short drive away. Kings River and Tulare Lake are a longer drive, for those who want to spend a day near the water.
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- 3%of adults have a degree
- 27 mintypical commute
What people in Tulare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tulare County had 174,610 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delano weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tulare County
- Kaweah Delta Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,619FTE
- Visalia UnifiedSchool district2,997FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,661
- Sunview Vineyards of CaliforniaGrape farming without making wine1,608
- Rachma ContractingGrape farming without making wine1,500
- Porterville UnifiedSchool district1,434FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,187
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,097
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 415 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,913 people in all across the county; Alpaugh has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Heat wavesVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alpaugh’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Alpaugh home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alpaugh$216,362
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Alpaugh address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alpaugh — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.