Kennedy, California.
Typical home $354,114 (+0.5% in a year). Stockton, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$903 (+94%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $1,646 +0%
- $352,468$354,114 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $25,273 +8%
- $328,841$354,114 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.
- Kennedy$1,859
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 47 years.
Typical home values in Kennedy, CA rose 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kennedy, San Joaquin County, California
Kennedy, in San Joaquin County, had 3,223 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $70,213 a year and half less, against $92,179 across San Joaquin County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in San Joaquin County was 6.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in restaurants and hotels, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kennedy is a community in San Joaquin County, home to a modest number of people at the last count. Household incomes here run below the county's, and typical home values sit at a level many buyers in the wider region would find within reach. Winters are cool and mild by national standards, summers get hot, and the yearly rain is light.
Work. Residents work mostly in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in schools, hospitals and social care, in the building trades, and in manufacturing. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small number work from home. Among the larger workplaces in Kennedy are JB Hunt, ArcBest and USG, and unemployment across San Joaquin County has eased a little over the past year.
Things to do. The Haggin Museum and the USS Lucid, a museum, are each a short drive away, as is the Calaveras River for time by the water. For a longer outing, Micke Grove Zoo and the Gallo Center for the Arts, a theatre, are both a longer drive away.
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- 698households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. San Joaquin County had 290,380 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than 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, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kennedy
- JB Hunt268
- Oak Harbor - NCA/NV - 038 - STKTransportation46
- ArcBest - Risk ManagementTransportation35
- USGCeiling grid24
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 373 people in all. 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 moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kennedy’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 San Joaquin County and the Stockton, CA metro.
Kennedy home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kennedy$354,114
- 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.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kennedy6
Zip codes with a Kennedy address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kennedy — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.