Gustine, California.
Typical home $418,670 (-0.5% in a year). Merced, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,108 (+102%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,262 -1%
- $420,933$418,670 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $38,543 +10%
- $380,127$418,670 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.
- Gustine$2,197
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 36 years.
Typical home values in Gustine, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Gustine, Merced County, California
Gustine is a city of 6,110 people in Merced County. Half its households earn more than $59,532 a year and half less, against $65,510 across Merced County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Merced County was 8.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in shops, then transport and warehouses.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Gustine is a small city in Merced County, in California's Central Valley. Household incomes here run below the county's, and the typical home is worth a good deal, while only a small share of residents live below the poverty line. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and very few work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in shops, in transport, warehouses and utilities, in manufacturing, and in schools, hospitals and social care. The largest workplaces in Gustine are Saputo Cheese USA Inc. Gustine, which processes milk, along with Gustine Unified, the school district, and JF4 Enterprises, a hazardous waste collection service. Across Merced County, unemployment is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs grew slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are mild, with little or no snow, while summers run very hot and rainfall is light. Within a short drive are Great Valley Grasslands State Park and George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area, both protected areas, as well as Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge. San Luis Reservoir, a larger body of water, is a longer drive away.
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- 2,503households
- 8%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 2%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Merced County had 85,663 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 100° and lows near 62°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newman weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Gustine
- Saputo Cheese USA Inc. GustineMilk processing manufacturing342
- Gustine UnifiedSchool district189FTE
- JF4 EnterprisesHazardous waste collection services57
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 399 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively 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 Gustine’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 Merced County and the Merced, CA metro.
Gustine home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Gustine$418,670
- 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.
- Gustine17
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Gustine6
Zip codes with a Gustine address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Gustine — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.