Denair, California.
Typical home $551,523 (+3.4% in a year). Modesto, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,466 (+103%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $18,048 +3%
- $533,474$551,523 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $58,307 +12%
- $493,216$551,523 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.
- Denair$2,895
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 31 years.
Typical home values in Denair, CA rose 3.4% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Denair, Stanislaus County, California
Denair, in Stanislaus County, had 4,865 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $98,750 a year and half less, against $81,468 across Stanislaus County; 19% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Stanislaus County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most people in Stanislaus County 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Denair is a small community in Stanislaus County, in California's Central Valley. Household incomes here run higher than across the county as a whole, though a noticeable share of residents live below the poverty line, and a four-year degree is held by fewer adults than you might expect for a community with these incomes. Winters are mild, with little or no snow and not much rain, while summers turn hot.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. The biggest workplaces in town include Denair Unified, the school district, along with Talkington, a house painting business, and Denair Lumber Company, a lumber yard. Few people work from home, and unemployment across Stanislaus County has been about where it was a year ago.
Things to do. A short drive away, Ceres River Bluff Regional Park offers a green spot along the river, and McConnell State Recreation Area is a protected area good for a day outdoors. Farther afield, the Gallo Center for the Arts is a theatre for evening outings, and Castle Air Museum is a museum of historic aircraft, each a longer drive away.
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- 1,582households
- 19%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Stanislaus County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stanislaus County had 199,343 jobs in 2025, about as many as 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Denair
- Denair UnifiedSchool district177FTE
- TalkingtonHouse painting54
- Denair Lumber CompanyLumber retailing yards33
- Reyn Franca SchoolElementary and secondary schools26
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 113 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Denair’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 Stanislaus County and the Modesto, CA metro.
Denair home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Denair$551,523
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Denair 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Denair16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Denair5
Zip codes with a Denair address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Denair — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.