Arvin, California.
Typical home $300,503 (+0.8% in a year). Bakersfield, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$871 (+123%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,393 +1%
- $298,109$300,503 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,032 +25%
- $239,471$300,503 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.
- Arvin$1,577
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Arvin, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Arvin, Kern County, California
Arvin is a city of 19,495 people in Kern County. Half its households earn more than $49,183 a year and half less, against $70,210 across Kern County; 35% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Kern County was 8.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Arvin is a small city in Kern County, in the southern San Joaquin Valley. It is a young town: its residents are far younger than in most American communities, and incomes run well below the county's. About as many homes are lived in by their owners as by renters, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and summers are hot, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Farming is the largest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and transport. Among the biggest workplaces in Arvin are Sycamore Labor, a farm labor contractor, along with Arvin Union Schools and Vallarta Supermarkets. Unemployment across Kern County is higher than in much of the country, and most people drive to work rather than working from home.
Things to do. Closest is Tejon Creek, a river a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, a protected area, and to the Kern River. Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway, a race track, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4,683households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 35%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kern County had 347,044 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 70°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bakersfield Northwest weather station, 20 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Arvin
- Sycamore LaborFarm labor contracting6,012
- Arvin Union SchoolsSchool district355FTE
- Vallarta SupermarketsIndependent supermarket113
- Grow Academy Arvin DistrictSchool district99FTE
- GarciaCo FarmingAgriculture production or harvesting crews32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,197 people in all. School districts come 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
- Inland floodingVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Arvin’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 Kern County and the Bakersfield, CA metro.
Arvin home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Arvin$300,503
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Arvin11
Zip codes with a Arvin address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Arvin — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.