Kettleman City, California.
Typical home $215,019 (+3.2% in a year). Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$679 (+151%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,657 +3%
- $208,363$215,019 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $61,182 +40%
- $153,837$215,019 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.
- Kettleman City$1,129
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Kettleman City, CA rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kettleman City, Kings County, California
Kettleman City, in Kings County, had 1,242 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Kings County was 8.5% in August 2026, and the county had 2.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Kings County work in schools and health care, then farming.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kettleman City is a small community in the Central Valley of California, in Kings County. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month, and summers are very hot, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow are scarce through the year, so the country around it is dry.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, forestry and mining, with others in shops and in manufacturing. Across Kings County, some of the largest workplaces are Corcoran State Prison, Leprino Foods and Adventist Health Hanford. Typical home values here are modest, and incomes across the county are well below those in much of the state. Unemployment across Kings County is higher than in many parts of the country, and it has barely changed from a year earlier. Even so, the county has added jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The Kings River is a short drive away, as is the Tule River, and both offer a quiet spot to spend time by the water. Tulare Lake is a longer drive. For something different, Marchbanks Speedway, a race track, is also a longer drive from town.
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- 0%of adults have a degree
What people in Kings County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kings County had 52,040 jobs in 2025, 2.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 36°; warmest in July, with highs near 99° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Kettleman City weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kings County
- CDCR (COR) Corcoran State PrisonPrisons1,823
- Mall DR DeptsGeneral medical and surgical hospitals1,446
- California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationPrisons1,289
- Leprino Foods CoCheese manufacturing1,070
- Adventist Health HanfordGeneral hospital1,064FTE
- Central Valley Meat CompanyBeef produced in slaughtering plants779
- Best Deal Food CompanySupermarkets670
- Hanford Elementary SchoolsSchool district588FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 83 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,803 people in all across the county; Kettleman City 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
- DroughtVery high
- Heat wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kettleman City’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 Kings County and the Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
Kettleman City home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kettleman City$215,019
- 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.
Zip codes with a Kettleman City address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kettleman City — 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.