Lamont, California.
Typical home $250,658 (+0.3% in a year). Bakersfield, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$753 (+134%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $795 +0%
- $249,863$250,658 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,000 +33%
- $188,658$250,658 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.
- Lamont$1,316
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Lamont, CA rose 0.3% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Lamont, Kern County, California
Lamont, in Kern County, had 14,049 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $37,217 a year and half less, against $70,210 across Kern County; 35% of its people live below the poverty line. 48% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 52% are rented. Unemployment in Kern County was 8.4% in August 2026, and the county had 0.2% 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 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Lamont is a community in Kern County where the population is young, with a median age well below that of much of the country. Incomes run far below the county's, and a larger share of residents live below the poverty line than is typical. More homes are rented than owned, so renting is common, and few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in farming, in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, and in the building trades. Across Kern County, some of the largest workplaces are Sycamore Labor, which runs agricultural harvesting crews, Kern High Schools, and Bakersfield City Schools. Unemployment in the county is higher than it was a year ago at this time, and the county has fewer jobs than the year before. Commutes are of middling length, and very few people work from home.
Things to do. Beale Park and Jefferson Park are parks a short drive away, and Tejon Creek, also a short drive off, is a small river. For a day out in town, the Bakersfield Museum of Art is a short drive away, and the Kern River is a longer drive for time by the water. Winters are cool and summers are hot and dry, with very little rain or snow through the year, so spring and fall can suit time outdoors.
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- 3,578households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 35%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Kern County had 347,044 jobs in 2025, 0.2% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 39°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 70°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Bakersfield Northwest weather station, 13 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Kern County
- Sycamore LaborAgriculture production or harvesting crews6,012
- Kern High SchoolsSchool district3,770FTE
- Bakersfield City SchoolsSchool district3,617FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,321
- King Grafting Ag serviceFarm labor contractors2,500
- Panama-Buena Vista Union SchoolsSchool district2,490FTE
- Esparza EnterprisesFarm labor contractors2,356
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage2,318
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 631 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 114,076 people in all across the county; Lamont has two of its own. 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lamont’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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 Kern County and the Bakersfield, CA metro.
Lamont home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lamont$250,658
- 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.
- Lamont14
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lamont6
Zip codes with a Lamont address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lamont — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.