Fresno, California.
Typical home $384,885 (+0.6% in a year), asking rent $1,945 (+3.9%). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,058 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $2,248 +1%
- $382,637$384,885 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,272 +17%
- $328,613$384,885 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.
- Fresno$2,020
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 22 years.
Typical home values in Fresno, CA rose 0.6% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Fresno, CA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Fresno runs $724/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $892 in May 2024.
That is $2,668 a month against $1,945 rent: a $2,020 mortgage payment, plus $236 property tax and $412 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Fresno
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,668
- Renting$1,945
- Mortgage only$2,020
Property tax · $236/mo 0.74% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Fresno County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $412/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Fresno, Fresno County, California
Fresno is a city of 542,107 people in Fresno County. Half its households earn more than $70,991 a year and half less, against $74,201 across Fresno County; 20% of its people live below the poverty line. 50% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 50% are rented. Unemployment in Fresno was 7.2% in August 2026, and Fresno County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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. Fresno is a large city in California's Central Valley, and the biggest in Fresno County by a wide margin. Its residents are younger than the typical American, and households here have incomes a little below the county's. More people rent than across much of the country, and the share living below the poverty line is higher than many would expect. Winters are mild and the summers are hot, with almost no snow and little rain through the year.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by professional and business services, shops, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in Fresno are the County of Fresno, Fresno Unified school district and Community Regional Medical Center. Unemployment has eased slightly over the past year, and the county has added a small number of jobs. The typical commute is a short one, and some residents work from home.
Things to do. Fresno Chaffee Zoo and Roeding Park are both in or beside town, the first a zoo and the second a park with amusement rides. The Forestiere Underground Gardens, a museum, is a short drive away. Tower Theatre, in or beside town, is a good choice for an evening out.
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- 180,450households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 20%below the poverty line
- 22 mintypical commute
- 11%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fresno County had 428,665 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 55° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 69°. About 11 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fresno
- County of FresnoPersonnel offices, government8,483
- Fresno UnifiedSchool district7,844FTE
- Community Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,591FTE
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury3,537
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,512
- St. Agnes Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,635FTE
- California State University-FresnoUniversity or college2,565
- Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs1,727
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 360 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 66,828 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of FresnoRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of FresnoRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Fresno’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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Fresno home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Fresno$384,885
- 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 4 Fresno listings, and the typical home goes pending in 19 days — 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.
- Fresno26.76%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Fresno19
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Fresno1,365
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Fresno425
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Fresno$391,918
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Fresno99.44%
Zip codes with a Fresno address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Fresno — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Fresno
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93722 | Fresno | 86,110 | $2,143 | $395,002 |
| 93727 | Fresno | 84,107 | $2,296 | $426,525 |
| 93720 | Fresno | 50,089 | $2,102 | $486,819 |
| 93726 | Fresno | 44,527 | $1,511 | $325,011 |
| 93702 | Fresno | 43,875 | $1,466 | $248,544 |
| 93706 | Fresno | 40,638 | $1,632 | $284,485 |
| 93711 | Fresno | 39,245 | $2,227 | $507,092 |
| 93705 | Fresno | 38,888 | $1,538 | $312,109 |
| 93703 | Fresno | 33,420 | $1,506 | $291,242 |
| 93710 | Fresno | 31,669 | $1,789 | $389,442 |
| 93704 | Fresno | 28,932 | $1,598 | $371,146 |
| 93725 | Fresno | 24,575 | $1,695 | $353,483 |
| 93728 | Fresno | 18,313 | $1,545 | $294,767 |
| 93723 | Fresno | 14,726 | $2,700 | $507,215 |
| 93730 | Fresno | 14,263 | $2,652 | $643,869 |
| 93701 | Fresno | 9,808 | $1,203 | $238,302 |
| 93737 | Fresno | 7,279 | $2,776 | $516,328 |
| 93721 | Fresno | 7,225 | $1,450 | $197,712 |
| 93650 | Fresno | 3,333 | — | $294,433 |