Laton, California.
Typical home $406,580 (+6.3% in a year). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,101 (+107%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,180 +6%
- $382,401$406,580 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,565 +22%
- $334,016$406,580 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.
- Laton$2,134
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Laton, CA rose 6.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Laton, Fresno County, California
Laton, in Fresno County, had 1,622 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $77,647 a year and half less, against $74,201 across Fresno County; 4% of its people live below the poverty line. Unemployment in Fresno County was 7.8% in August 2026, and the county had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Fresno County work in schools and health care, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Laton is a small community in the San Joaquin Valley, in Fresno County. Household incomes here run a little above the county's, and few residents live below the poverty line. Fewer adults hold a four-year degree than you might expect, and a typical commute is a moderate one. Winters are mild, with January the coldest month and days that stay cool but well above freezing. Summers are very hot, with July the warmest month, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Across Fresno County, some of the largest workplaces are the County of Fresno, Fresno Unified and Community Regional Medical Center. Unemployment across the county is a little lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely grown.
Things to do. The closest-known options are all a longer drive away. Fresno Chaffee Zoo is a good outing for families, and Roeding Park is an amusement park. Kings River offers a chance to spend time by moving water, and Forestiere Underground Gardens is a museum of a very unusual hand-dug garden.
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- 14%of adults have a degree
- 4%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Fresno County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Fresno County had 428,665 jobs in 2025, 0.4% more 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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Fresno County
- County of FresnoPersonnel offices, government8,483
- Fresno UnifiedSchool district7,844FTE
- Community Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital4,591FTE
- Clovis UnifiedSchool district4,499FTE
- Internal Revenue ServiceFederal government · Department of the Treasury3,537
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage3,512
- Fruit Harvest FamilyFruit and tree nut combination farming3,506
- St. Agnes Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,635FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 718 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 123,125 people in all across the county; Laton has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Laton’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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Laton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Laton$406,580
- 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.
- Laton10
Zip codes with a Laton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Laton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.