Mendota, California.
Typical home $326,991 (+4.9% in a year). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$968 (+129%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $15,176 +5%
- $311,815$326,991 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $77,099 +31%
- $249,892$326,991 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.
- Mendota$1,716
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 13 years.
Typical home values in Mendota, CA rose 4.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mendota, Fresno County, California
Mendota is a city of 12,595 people in Fresno County. Half its households earn more than $50,342 a year and half less, against $74,201 across Fresno County; 28% of its people live below the poverty line. 45% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 55% are rented. 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 residents work in farming, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Mendota is a young city in Fresno County, where residents are younger than in most American towns. Incomes run well below the county's, and more people live below the poverty line than in many places, while fewer homes are lived in by their owners than across much of the country. Few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cool but mild, and summers are very hot. Rain and melted snow are light across the year.
Work. Many residents work in farming, forestry and mining, with others in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, and in the building trades. Across Fresno County, some of the largest workplaces are the County of Fresno, Fresno Unified and Community Regional Medical Center. Jobs in the county grew only slightly last year, and unemployment there has stayed at about the same level as a year ago. The typical commute is a long one, and few people work from home.
Things to do. Fresno Slough, a river, runs in or beside town. A short drive away are the Alkali Sink Ecological Reserve, a park, and Panoche Creek, another river. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the Forestiere Underground Gardens, a museum.
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- 3,256households
- 5%of adults have a degree
- 28%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 7%work from home
What residents 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 December, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 63°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Madera Municipal Airport weather station, 22 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; Mendota has two 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of MendotaRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of MendotaRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mendota’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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Mendota home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mendota$326,991
- 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 Mendota address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mendota — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.