Greenfield, California.
Typical home $549,110 (+0.8% in a year). Salinas, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,517 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $4,227 +1%
- $544,883$549,110 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,992 +15%
- $478,118$549,110 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.
- Greenfield$2,882
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Greenfield, CA rose 0.8% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Greenfield, Monterey County, California
Greenfield is a city of 18,937 people in Monterey County. Half its households earn more than $84,740 a year and half less, against $97,230 across Monterey County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 54% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 46% are rented. Unemployment in Monterey County was 5.7% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in farming, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Greenfield is a small city in Monterey County, and its residents are young, with a median age well below that of most of the country. Incomes run below the county's, and about as many households rent as own, with somewhat more living in homes they own. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool and mild, summers warm but not hot, with little or no snow and rain that is light for the year.
Work. Farming is the main work here, along with schools, hospitals and social care, shops, and transport and warehousing. Among the largest workplaces in Greenfield are Dominguez Farms, Greenfield Union Elementary Schools and Nutrien Ag Solutions. Jobs across Monterey County have slipped a little over the past year, and unemployment there is close to where it stood a year ago. Most people drive to work, and few work from home.
Things to do. Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, a museum, and Arroyo Seco, a river, are both a short drive away. For a longer outing, Pinnacles National Park is a longer drive away, and McWay Falls, a waterfall, is also a longer drive away.
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- 4,426households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Monterey County had 198,525 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 62° and lows near 37°; warmest in August, with highs near 85° and lows near 54°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the King City weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Greenfield
- Dominguez FarmsFarm labor contractors2,042
- Greenfield Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district406FTE
- Nutrien Ag SolutionsFarm supplies merchant wholesalers72
- Sunrise HarvestingAgriculture production or harvesting crews52
- B L H Construction Company - Walnut TerraceMultifamily building construction general contractors43
- StiiizyRyegrass seed farming25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 5 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,234 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Droughtrelatively high in parts of GreenfieldRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively 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 Greenfield’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively 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 Monterey County and the Salinas, CA metro.
Greenfield home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Greenfield$549,110
- 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.
- Greenfield16
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Greenfield6
Zip codes with a Greenfield address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Greenfield — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.