Avenal, California.
Typical home $248,344 (-0.8% in a year). Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$725 (+126%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,949 -1%
- $250,293$248,344 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $50,446 +25%
- $197,898$248,344 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.
- Avenal$1,303
- 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 Avenal, CA fell 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Avenal, Kings County, California
Avenal is a city of 13,696 people in Kings County. Half its households earn more than $54,741 a year and half less, against $70,995 across Kings County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. 46% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 54% are rented. Unemployment in Kings County was 8.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more 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 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Avenal is a small city in Kings County in California's Central Valley, with a young population compared with much of the country. Household incomes run below the county's, and fewer homes are lived in by their owners than is typical, so renting is common. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical home is worth less than in many parts of the state. Winters are cool, and summers are very hot and dry, with only a little rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, or in the building trades. Across Kings County, some of the largest workplaces are Corcoran State Prison, Leprino Foods Co and Adventist Health Hanford. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is a long one. Unemployment across the county is a little higher than in many places, and the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The nearest outings are along small waterways a short drive away, including Garza Creek, Canoas Creek and Zapato Chino Creek. For a longer drive, the Kings River and Tulare Lake lie farther off. With summer highs so hot, the cooler months are the easier time to get out to any of them.
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- 2,802households
- 3%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 36 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kings County had 52,040 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kettleman City weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kings County
- CDCR (COR) Corcoran State PrisonPrisons1,823
- Mall DR DeptsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,446
- California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationPrisons1,289
- Leprino Foods CoCheese manufacturing1,070
- Adventist Health HanfordGeneral hospital1,064FTE
- Central Valley Meat CompanyBeef produced in slaughtering plants779
- Best Deal Food CompanySupermarkets670
- Hanford Elementary SchoolsSchool district588FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,803 people in all across the county; Avenal has two 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 wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of AvenalRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Avenal’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Kings County and the Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
Avenal home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Avenal$248,344
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 12 Avenal listings — the market is cooling.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Avenal8.56%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Avenal27
Zip codes with a Avenal address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Avenal — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.