Newman, California.
Typical home $430,783 (-1.5% in a year), asking rent $1,600 . Modesto, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,114 (+97%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $6,726 -2%
- $437,509$430,783 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $29,449 +7%
- $401,334$430,783 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.
- Newman$2,261
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 49 years.
Typical home values in Newman, CA fell 1.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Newman, Stanislaus County, California
Newman is a city of 12,351 people in Stanislaus County. Half its households earn more than $78,906 a year and half less, against $81,468 across Stanislaus County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 66% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 34% are rented. Unemployment in Stanislaus County was 7.0% in August 2026, and the county had about as many jobs in 2025 as the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Newman is a small city in Stanislaus County, in California's Central Valley. Its residents are younger than in much of the country, and most homes are lived in by their owners. Incomes run a little below the county's, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and almost never snowy, summers are very hot, and the rain that falls is light.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants and hotels, the building trades and shops. The largest workplaces in Newman include the Newman-Crows Landing Unified school district, Saputo Cheese Newman and DMB Packing. Commutes are long, and few people work from home. Unemployment across Stanislaus County is high and about the same as a year ago.
Things to do. Several protected areas are a short drive away, among them Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge, George J. Hatfield State Recreation Area and Great Valley Grasslands State Park. Los Baños Creek is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Gallo Center for the Arts is a theatre a longer drive away, and San Luis Reservoir is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 3,689households
- 11%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 37 mintypical commute
- 6%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Stanislaus County had 199,343 jobs in 2025, about as many as the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 60° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 100° and lows near 62°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Newman weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Newman
- Newman-Crows Landing UnifiedSchool district407FTE
- Saputo Cheese NewmanCheese manufacturing164
- DMB PackingPacking fruits and vegetables150
- San Luis Care CenterHomes for the elderly with nursing care82
- Ancient OrganicsButter manufacturing56
- Raleys-ECSupermarkets and other grocery retailers56
- Newman Flange & Fitting CoSteel forgings made from purchased steel, unfinished31
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 6 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 539 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
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of NewmanRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Newman’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 Stanislaus County and the Modesto, CA metro.
Newman home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Newman$430,783
- 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 5 Newman listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Newman22.07%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Newman33
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Newman11
Zip codes with a Newman address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Newman — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.