Delhi, California.
Typical home $412,316 (+1.5% in a year). Merced, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,119 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,140 +2%
- $406,176$412,316 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $48,249 +13%
- $364,067$412,316 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.
- Delhi$2,164
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Delhi, CA rose 1.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Delhi, Merced County, California
Delhi, in Merced County, had 10,656 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $67,500 a year and half less, against $65,510 across Merced County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Merced County was 8.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Delhi is a small community in Merced County, and its residents are younger than in much of the country. Incomes run a little above the county's, though a noticeable share of households live below the poverty line. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and transport and warehousing close behind. Across Merced County, some of the largest workplaces are University of California-Merced, Mercy Medical Center Merced and Merced Union High Schools. The commute is a fairly typical one, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. McConnell State Recreation Area is a protected area a short drive away, a place for time outdoors along the river. Farther afield, Castle Air Museum is a museum and Gallo Center for the Arts is a theatre, both a longer drive away. Winters are mild and mostly dry with little or no snow, and summers get hot, so spring and autumn suit outings well.
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- 2,918households
- 15%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 26 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merced County had 85,663 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 55° and lows near 42°; warmest in July, with highs near 93° and lows near 66°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Turlock #2 weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Merced County
- Merced CountyCommunity health programs administration2,176
- University of California-MercedUniversity or college1,863
- Merced Union High SchoolsSchool district1,108FTE
- Mercy Medical Center MercedGeneral hospital1,100FTE
- Merced City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,037FTE
- Hilmar Cheese CompanyDips, cheese based, manufacturing999
- Los Banos UnifiedSchool district985FTE
- Merced County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district952FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 147 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 21,213 people in all across the county; Delhi has one of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts 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 DelhiRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Delhi’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 Merced County and the Merced, CA metro.
Delhi home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Delhi$412,316
- 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.
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.
- Delhi15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Delhi address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Delhi — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.