Kingsburg, California.
Typical home $472,956 (+3.3% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,311 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,284 +3%
- $457,672$472,956 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $86,051 +22%
- $386,905$472,956 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.
- Kingsburg$2,482
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Kingsburg, CA rose 3.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Kingsburg, Tulare County, California
Kingsburg is a city of 12,380 people in Tulare County. Half its households earn more than $76,913 a year and half less, against $71,300 across Tulare County; 11% of its people live below the poverty line. 72% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 28% are rented. Unemployment in Tulare County was 10.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Kingsburg is a small city in Tulare County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and where incomes run above the county's. Residents are of a middling age, and fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect. Winters are cool but mild, with frosty nights in January, while July is hot, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. Among the largest workplaces in Kingsburg are Leopoldo's Farm Service, a fruit and tree nut farming operation, Guardian Industries, a flat glass manufacturer, and Kingsburg Elementary Charter Schools. Unemployment across Tulare County is high and has barely moved in a year, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Most of what draws people out is a longer drive away. Pine Flat Lake is a reservoir for time on the water, and the Fresno Chaffee Zoo is a good day out for families. Chukchansi Park is a stadium in the area for watching a game, and the Visalia Fox Theatre is a theatre for an evening show.
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- 4,413households
- 18%of adults have a degree
- 11%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tulare County had 174,610 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 64°. About 8 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hanford Municipal Airport weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kingsburg
- Leopoldo's Farm ServiceFruit and tree nut combination farming1,580
- ATL Farms,INCFarm labor contractors300
- Guardian Industries LLC - KingsburgFlat glass manufacturing240
- Kingsburg Elementary Charter SchoolsSchool district239FTE
- Packaging Corporation of America189
- Sunbridge Care Enterprises WestSkilled nursing facilities93
- Crestwood Behavioral Health72
- Reliant Ag Custom HarvestingAgriculture production or harvesting crews32
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 2,571 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Kingsburg’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 Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Kingsburg home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Kingsburg$472,956
- 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.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Kingsburg listings — the market is cooling.
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.
- Kingsburg30.88%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Kingsburg36
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Kingsburg8
Zip codes with a Kingsburg address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Kingsburg — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.