Lemoore, California.
Typical home $383,817 (+3.8% in a year), asking rent $1,868 (+2.8%). Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,069 (+113%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,192 +4%
- $369,625$383,817 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,218 +19%
- $321,600$383,817 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.
- Lemoore$2,015
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 20 years.
Typical home values in Lemoore, CA rose 3.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Lemoore, CA rose 2.8% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Owning the typical home in Lemoore runs $796/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $851 in Jan 2025.
That is $2,665 a month against $1,868 rent: a $2,015 mortgage payment, plus $239 property tax and $411 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Lemoore
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,665
- Renting$1,868
- Mortgage only$2,015
Property tax · $239/mo 0.75% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Kings County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $411/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Lemoore, Kings County, California
Lemoore is a city of 27,038 people in Kings County. Half its households earn more than $83,724 a year and half less, against $70,995 across Kings County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. Unemployment in Lemoore was 7.5% in August 2026, and Kings County had 2.4% more 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. Lemoore is a city in Kings County in California's Central Valley, and its residents are young for a place of its size, with a median age well below what many older homeowners might expect. Household incomes run above the county's, and owners and renters live side by side, with only slightly more homes lived in by their owners than rented. Winters are cool and short, with January the coldest month, while July summers are hot and dry, and very little rain or snow falls across the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, government, and restaurants, hotels and entertainment also employing a good share. Among the largest workplaces in Lemoore are Leprino Foods, a cheese manufacturer, the Lemoore Union Elementary Schools, and Lemoore College, a two-year college. Unemployment has edged up slightly over the past year, though Kings County has added jobs, and the typical commute is short, with very few people working from home.
Things to do. The nearest outdoor spots are a longer drive away. Kings River is the best known, and Tulare Lake lies out that way too. For an evening out, Marchbanks Speedway is a race track, and the Visalia Fox Theatre is a theatre, both also a longer drive away.
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- 8,809households
- 20%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 21 mintypical commute
- 3%work from home
What residents 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 56° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 63°. About 7 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lemoore Reeves Nas weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Lemoore
- Leprino Foods CoCheese manufacturing1,070
- Lemoore Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district341FTE
- Valencia Farm LaborLabor contractors, farm320
- Leprino Foods CompanyCheese manufacturing307
- Lemoore CollegeTwo-year college241
- Lemoore Union High SchoolsSchool district200FTE
- Olam Americas, Inc. LemooreNationality specialty foods canning32
- Jaco Oil Co - FastripConvenience food with gasoline stations28
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 7 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,802 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Lemoore’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 Kings County and the Hanford-Corcoran, CA metro.
Lemoore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Lemoore$383,817
- 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 4 Lemoore 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.
- Lemoore26.18%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Lemoore83
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Lemoore30
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Lemoore$392,450
- United States$371,407
Zip codes with a Lemoore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Lemoore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.