Delano, California.
Typical home $332,398 (+1.1% in a year), asking rent $1,318 . Bakersfield, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$945 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,553 +1%
- $328,844$332,398 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,757 +26%
- $263,641$332,398 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.
- Delano$1,745
- 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 Delano, CA rose 1.1% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Delano, Kern County, California
Delano is a city of 51,428 people in Kern County. Half its households earn more than $67,010 a year and half less, against $70,210 across Kern County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 63% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 37% are rented. Unemployment in Delano was 15.1% in August 2026, and Kern County had 0.2% fewer 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delano is a city in Kern County where residents are younger than in many American towns, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Household incomes run a little below the county's, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than in most places. Winters are mild and the summers are hot and dry, with little or no snow and very little rain through the year.
Work. Work here leans toward the land: farming is the biggest line of work among residents, followed by schools, hospitals and social care, then shops and manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Delano are Wonderful Citrus-Halo's, which runs orange groves, Veloria DL Contracting, a grape grower, and Delano Union Elementary Schools. Unemployment is higher than it was a year ago, and across Kern County there are slightly fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, a protected area, is a short drive away, and so is the White River. A longer drive brings you to Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, another protected area, and to Lake Success, a reservoir. Most people get to work in about the time it takes to drive across town, and few work from home.
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- 12,071households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 January, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delano weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Delano
- Veloria DL ContractingGrape farming without making wine899
- Wonderful Citrus-Halo'sOrange groves806
- Delano Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district738FTE
- Espinoza Farm Labor ContractorFarm labor contractors567
- Wonderful CitrusOrange groves515
- Delano Joint Union High SchoolsSchool district449FTE
- Delano Regional Med. CTRGeneral hospital442FTE
- City of DelanoExecutive and legislative office combinations408
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 31 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 5,320 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of DelanoRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delano’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Delano home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delano$332,398
- 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 5 Delano 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.
- Delano20.19%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Delano47
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Delano15
Zip codes with a Delano address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delano — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.