Farmington, California.
Typical home $764,514 (-0.6% in a year). Modesto, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,903 (+90%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,898 -1%
- $769,412$764,514 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $13,857 +2%
- $750,657$764,514 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.
- Farmington$4,013
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Farmington, CA fell 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Farmington, Stanislaus County, California
Farmington, in Stanislaus County, had 220 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Farmington is a very small community in Stanislaus County, in California's Central Valley, with far fewer residents than most towns. Homes here are valued well above what the county's incomes would suggest, so buying in is a stretch for many households in the surrounding area.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops and the building trades also employing many. Across Stanislaus County, the largest workplaces include EJ Gallo Winery, Memorial Hospital Modesto and Modesto City Elementary Schools. Unemployment across the county is high and has barely changed from a year ago, and the number of jobs has held about level.
Things to do. The weather is mild in winter and hot in summer. January is the coldest month, with cool days and chilly nights, and July brings the heat. Rain and melted snow are modest through the year. For time outdoors or out of the house, Micke Grove Zoo and Caswell Memorial State Park, a protected area, are each a longer drive away, as is the Haggin Museum. The Tuolumne River and the Stanislaus River are also a longer drive away.
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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 57° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 61°. About 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Stockton Metro Airport weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Stanislaus County
- EJ Gallo WinerySite support functions2,477
- Memorial Hospital ModestoGeneral hospital2,029FTE
- Modesto City Elementary SchoolsSchool district1,794FTE
- Modesto Medical CenterGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,720
- Kaiser PermanenteGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,690
- Doctors Medical Center of ModestoGeneral hospital1,651FTE
- Turlock UnifiedSchool district1,567FTE
- Modesto City High SchoolsSchool district1,547FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 438 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 67,299 people in all across the county; Farmington has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- DroughtVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Farmington’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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 Stanislaus County and the Modesto, CA metro.
Farmington home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Farmington$764,514
- 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.
Zip codes with a Farmington address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Farmington — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.