Cutler, California.
Typical home $272,629 (+1.6% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$713 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,337 +2%
- $268,292$272,629 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,021 +15%
- $236,608$272,629 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.
- Cutler$1,431
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Cutler, CA rose 1.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Cutler, Tulare County, California
Cutler, in Tulare County, had 4,480 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Tulare County was 10.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tulare County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Cutler is a small community in Tulare County, in California's San Joaquin Valley. Incomes here run below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Homes are priced at a level that sits well within reach compared with much of California.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in shops and in manufacturing. Some of the largest workplaces in Cutler are RFL, a farm labor contractor, Family HealthCare Network, a health clinic, and the County of Tulare, through its sheriff's office. Commutes are fairly long, and almost no one works from home.
Things to do. Cutler Park is a local park, though it is a longer drive away. For a day out, Sequoia National Park is the best known destination nearby, also a longer drive, and Lake Kaweah is a reservoir in the same direction. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings little rain.
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- 1,156households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 28 mintypical commute
- 2%work from home
What people in Tulare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tulare County had 174,610 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Visalia weather station, 14 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Cutler
- RFLFarm labor contractors130
- Family HealthCare Network (006)Clinics/centers of health practitioners from more than one industry practicing within the same establishment66
- County of TulareSheriffs' offices33
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 229 people in all. 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 wavesVery high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Cutler’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 Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Cutler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Cutler$272,629
- 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.
- Cutler4
Zip codes with a Cutler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Cutler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.