Oakhurst, California.
Typical home $430,349 (-0.7% in a year). Madera, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,123 (+99%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $3,123 -1%
- $433,472$430,349 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $43,001 +11%
- $387,348$430,349 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.
- Oakhurst$2,259
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 33 years.
Typical home values in Oakhurst, CA fell 0.7% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Oakhurst, Madera County, California
Oakhurst, in Madera County, had 5,945 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $82,056 a year and half less, against $76,627 across Madera County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Madera County was 7.4% in August 2026, and the county had 2.1% more jobs in 2025 than 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Oakhurst is a small community in Madera County, and its residents skew older than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, incomes run a little above the county's, and fewer people live below the poverty line than you might expect. Winters are cool, with January the coldest month and frost on cold nights, while summers get hot, with July the warmest month. Rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by restaurants, hotels and entertainment, professional and business services, and shops. Among the largest workplaces in Oakhurst are Yosemite Unified, the school district, along with the grocery stores Vons and Raleys. Madera County has added jobs over the past year, though unemployment there is no lower than it was a year earlier, and a typical commute is fairly short.
Things to do. Bass Lake, a reservoir, and the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad, a museum, are both a short drive away. Yosemite National Park is a longer drive, and it holds well-known sights such as Yosemite Falls and Glacier Point, the second a tourist attraction with wide views over the valley.
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- 2,202households
- 26%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Madera County had 58,077 jobs in 2025, 2.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 57° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 58°. About 33 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the North Fk Rs weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Oakhurst
- ArborWorksArborist services1,089
- ArborVista ConsultingArborist services256
- Yosemite UnifiedSchool district164FTE
- VonsSupermarkets and other grocery stores138
- Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district109FTE
- RaleysSupermarkets and other grocery retailers68
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture40
- Sierra AmbulanceAmbulance services, air or ground36
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 8 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,666 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Winter weatherVery high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Landslidesrelatively high in parts of OakhurstRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Oakhurst’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 Madera County and the Madera, CA metro.
Oakhurst home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Oakhurst$430,349
- 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 Oakhurst listings — the market is heating up.
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.
- Oakhurst18.51%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Oakhurst80
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Oakhurst16
Zip codes with a Oakhurst address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Oakhurst — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.