Coalinga, California.
Typical home $297,863 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,233 . Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$830 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,952 +4%
- $286,911$297,863 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,487 +27%
- $235,376$297,863 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.
- Coalinga$1,563
- 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 Coalinga, CA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Coalinga, Fresno County, California
Coalinga is a city of 17,590 people in Fresno County. Half its households earn more than $75,451 a year and half less, against $74,201 across Fresno County; 22% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. 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 residents 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Coalinga is a small city in Fresno County, on the dry west side of California's Central Valley. Household incomes run a little above the county's, though more residents live below the poverty line than most would expect, and most of the town's homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and the typical commute is short. Winters are cool, with little or no snow, and summers are very hot and dry, with very little rain through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, government and shops. The largest workplaces in Coalinga include the Department of State Hospitals - Coalinga, Coalinga-Huron Unified, the local school district, and Coalinga College, a two-year college. Fresno County has seen the number of jobs edge up over the past year, while unemployment there has eased slightly.
Things to do. For time outdoors, the nearest options are small waterways a short drive away: Jasper Creek, Zapato Chino Creek and Canoas Creek. The Kings River is the best known of the nearby waters, though it is a longer drive away.
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- 4,161households
- 13%of adults have a degree
- 22%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 101° and lows near 69°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Coalinga weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Coalinga
- Department of State Hospitals - CoalingaMental health program administration1,945
- Cdcr1,317
- Coalinga-Huron UnifiedSchool district639FTE
- Coalinga CollegeTwo-year college233
- Coalinga Regional Medical CenterCritical access hospital119FTE
- NGWHerb farming, grown under cover66
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 3,328 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Coalinga’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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Coalinga home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Coalinga$297,863
- 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 4 Coalinga listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Coalinga23.52%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Coalinga44
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Coalinga8
Zip codes with a Coalinga address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Coalinga — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.