Friant, California.
Typical home $641,457 (-0.7% in a year). Madera, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,670 (+98%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $4,747 -1%
- $646,204$641,457 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $57,268 +10%
- $584,190$641,457 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.
- Friant$3,367
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 37 years.
Typical home values in Friant, CA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Friant, Madera County, California
Friant, in Madera County, had 446 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Madera County was 7.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Madera County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Friant is a very small community in Madera County, in California's San Joaquin Valley. Home values here are well above what the county's household incomes would suggest, so buying in is a stretch for many families. Winters are cool and mild, summers get very hot, and snow is rare.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming, retail and manufacturing close behind. Across Madera County, some of the largest workplaces are Valley Children's Hospital, Madera Unified and the County of Madera. Unemployment across the county is about where it was a year ago, while the number of jobs has grown a little.
Things to do. Millerton Lake, a reservoir, is a short drive away, as are Woodward Park and the San Joaquin Experimental Range, a protected area. Farther afield, Fresno Chaffee Zoo is a longer drive, and Pine Flat Lake offers more time on the water.
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What people in Madera County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madera County had 58,077 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more 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 99° and lows near 62°. About 15 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Friant Government Camp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Madera County
- Valley Children's HospitalChildren's hospital2,594FTE
- Madera UnifiedSchool district2,190FTE
- County of MaderaGeneral public administration1,400
- Cental California Women's FacilityCorrectional institutions1,248
- Chukchansi Gold Resort & CasinoCasino hotels1,200
- Table Mountain Casino ResortHotels, resort, with casinos1,136
- ArborWorksArborist services1,089
- Camarena HealthWalk-in physicians' offices639
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 99 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 19,391 people in all across the county; Friant 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Friant’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 Madera County and the Madera, CA metro.
Friant home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Friant$641,457
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Friant 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.
- Friant22.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Friant30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Friant4
Zip codes with a Friant address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Friant — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.