Richgrove, California.
Typical home $248,789 (-0.5% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$733 (+128%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $1,257 -1%
- $250,046$248,789 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $56,329 +29%
- $192,460$248,789 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.
- Richgrove$1,306
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Richgrove, CA fell 0.5% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Richgrove, Tulare County, California
Richgrove, in Tulare County, had 2,358 people in the 2020 census. 52% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 48% are rented. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Richgrove is a small community in Tulare County, in California's San Joaquin Valley, and its people are young: the median age is well below what you would find in most American towns. Winters are mild and short, with little or no snow and very little rain through the year. Summers are hot, and July is the warmest month.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in shops and in manufacturing. Across Tulare County, the largest workplaces include Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia Unified and Amazon. Unemployment across the county is high and has changed little from a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before. Few adults in town hold a four-year degree, and no one works from home.
Things to do. The closest outings are a longer drive away. Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is a protected historic area, and Pixley National Wildlife Refuge is a protected area for wildlife. Lake Success is a reservoir, which gives the valley a spot for time on the water.
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- 491households
- 2%of adults have a degree
- 25 mintypical commute
- 0%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, 9 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tulare County
- Kaweah Delta Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,619FTE
- Visalia UnifiedSchool district2,997FTE
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,661
- Sunview Vineyards of CaliforniaGrape farming without making wine1,608
- Rachma ContractingGrape farming without making wine1,500
- Porterville UnifiedSchool district1,434FTE
- WalmartGeneral warehousing and storage1,187
- AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,097
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 415 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 57,913 people in all across the county; Richgrove has one of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts 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
- Heat wavesVery high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Richgrove’s census tracts, 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 Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Richgrove home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Richgrove$248,789
- 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 Richgrove address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Richgrove — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.