Pixley, California.
Typical home $264,392 (+1.2% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$772 (+125%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $3,100 +1%
- $261,292$264,392 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $53,100 +25%
- $211,292$264,392 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.
- Pixley$1,388
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 15 years.
Typical home values in Pixley, CA rose 1.2% over the past year — in step with the nation.
Living in Pixley, Tulare County, California
Pixley, in Tulare County, had 3,828 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Tulare County was 10.4% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Tulare County work in schools and health care, then farming.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Pixley is a small community in Tulare County, in the flat farming country of California's Central Valley. It is a young town, with residents who are much younger on average than across the country, and few adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are mild and rarely frost-hard, with almost no snow, summers are very hot, and the rainfall is light for the whole year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, and in farming, shops and manufacturing. Several of the town's largest workplaces process what the surrounding farms produce, including California Dairies, J.D. Heiskell & Co. Pixley and Calgren Renewable Fuels. Unemployment across Tulare County is high and has barely changed from a year ago, and the commute to work is a little longer than many people face.
Things to do. Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area, is a short drive away, as is Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. The White River is also a short drive from town. For an evening out, the Visalia Fox Theatre is a longer drive away.
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- 894households
- 7%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What people in Tulare County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Tulare County had 174,610 jobs in 2025, 1.7% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 68°. About 8 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Delano weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Pixley
- California DairiesDry milk manufacturing157
- J.D. Heiskell & Co. PixleyAnimal feed mills manufacturing99
- Calgren Renewable fuelsEthanol, nonpotable, manufacturing80
- County of TulareSheriffs' offices30
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 366 people in all. 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Pixley’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 Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Pixley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Pixley$264,392
- 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.
- Pixley11
Zip codes with a Pixley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Pixley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.