Caliente, California.
Typical home $292,898 (-1.6% in a year). Bakersfield, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$740 (+93%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,842 -2%
- $297,740$292,898 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $19,131 +7%
- $273,767$292,898 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.
- Caliente$1,537
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 51 years.
Typical home values in Caliente, CA fell 1.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caliente, Kern County, California
The Census does not count Caliente on its own, so the figures here are Kern County's. Half the county's households earn more than $70,210 a year and half less; 19% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 60% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 40% 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 people in Kern County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caliente sits in Kern County, California, where most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run lower than the county's, and a larger share of people live below the poverty line than in many parts of the country. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than across the nation as a whole, and the town's people are often of working age, with many families close to one another.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, or in farming, forestry and mining. Shops and professional and business services also employ people here. Jobs in the county shrank slightly last year, and unemployment is higher than it was a year earlier, while working from home is uncommon. Winters are colder than most of the country, summers are hot, and rain is light.
Things to do. Lake Isabella is a reservoir a longer drive away, which suits those who enjoy open water. Red Rock Canyon State Park, also a longer drive away, is a protected area of the kind many people visit for walking and scenery. Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, another protected area a longer drive off, is one of the best known sites in the region.
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- 284,931households
- 32.7median age
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Kern County 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 December, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in August, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Loraine Nne weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kern County
- Sycamore LaborAgriculture production or harvesting crews6,012
- Kern High SchoolsSchool district3,770FTE
- Bakersfield City SchoolsSchool district3,617FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,321
- King Grafting Ag serviceFarm labor contractors2,500
- Panama-Buena Vista Union SchoolsSchool district2,490FTE
- Esparza EnterprisesFarm labor contractors2,356
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,318
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 631 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114,076 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Kern County, 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.
Caliente home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caliente$292,898
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Caliente15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Caliente address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caliente — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.