Prather, California.
Typical home $571,968 (+3.0% in a year). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,569 (+110%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,791 +3%
- $555,177$571,968 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $68,803 +14%
- $503,165$571,968 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.
- Prather$3,002
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 27 years.
Typical home values in Prather, CA rose 3.0% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Prather, Fresno County, California
The Census does not count Prather on its own, so the figures here are Fresno County's. Half the county's households earn more than $74,201 a year and half less; 18% of the county's people live below the poverty line. 56% of the county's homes are lived in by their owners and 44% 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 people in Fresno County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Haiku 5.5 wrote this on 22 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Prather is a small community in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California. Across the county, most homes are lived in by their owners, and winters are mild while summers are hot and dry, with little snow and a moderate amount of rain. Figures for the area come from the county, since the Census does not count Prather on its own.
Work. Across Fresno County, many people work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in professional and business services, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. The county has seen slight growth in jobs over the past year. Many residents make the trip to work by car, and the drive is usually a short one.
Things to do. Millerton Lake is a reservoir a short drive away, and Pine Flat Lake, another reservoir, is a longer drive off. Chukchansi Park, a stadium, is also a longer drive away.
Report a mistake
- 324,702households
- 33.5median age
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 18%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 10%work from home
What people in Fresno County 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 54° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 68°. About 2 inches of snow and 25 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Auberry Northwest weather station, 6 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. 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
- DroughtVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms across Fresno County, 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 Fresno County and the Fresno, CA metro.
Prather home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Prather$571,968
- 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.
- Prather11
Zip codes with a Prather address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Prather — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.