Caruthers, California.
Typical home $386,868 (+3.8% in a year). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,107 (+120%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,091 +4%
- $372,778$386,868 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $76,172 +25%
- $310,697$386,868 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.
- Caruthers$2,031
- 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 Caruthers, CA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Caruthers, Fresno County, California
Caruthers, in Fresno County, had 2,613 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Fresno County was 7.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fresno County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Caruthers is a small community in Fresno County, with a population that keeps it on the quiet side. Homes here are valued below what is typical in much of California, and household incomes in the county sit modestly below the state's. Winters are cool and mild by national standards, while summers turn hot, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, or in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fresno County, the largest workplaces include Fresno Unified, the County of Fresno and Community Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs has grown only slightly. The typical commute is short, and only a small share of people work from home.
Things to do. The nearest well-known outings are all a longer drive away. Fresno Chaffee Zoo is the zoo most people head for, and Roeding Park is an amusement park for a family afternoon. Kearney Park offers a green place to walk and spend time outdoors.
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- 20 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What people in Fresno County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fresno County had 428,665 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 63°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lemoore Reeves Nas weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fresno County
- County of FresnoPersonnel offices, government8,483
- Fresno UnifiedSchool district7,844FTE
- Community Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,591FTE
- Clovis UnifiedSchool district4,499FTE
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury3,537
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,512
- Fruit Harvest FamilyFruit and tree nut combination farming3,506
- St. Agnes Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,635FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 718 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 123,125 people in all across the county; Caruthers has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Caruthers’ 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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Caruthers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Caruthers$386,868
- 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.
- Caruthers10
Zip codes with a Caruthers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Caruthers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.