Sanger, California.
Typical home $410,012 (+2.7% in a year), asking rent $1,798 . Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,177 (+121%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $10,895 +3%
- $399,117$410,012 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $72,399 +21%
- $337,612$410,012 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.
- Sanger$2,152
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 18 years.
Typical home values in Sanger, CA rose 2.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Sanger, Fresno County, California
Sanger is a city of 26,617 people in Fresno County. Half its households earn more than $77,500 a year and half less, against $74,201 across Fresno County; 16% of its people live below the poverty line. 64% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 36% are rented. Unemployment in Sanger was 9.5% in August 2026, and Fresno County had 0.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Sanger is a city in Fresno County with a young population, with residents younger on the whole than in many American towns. Household incomes run a little above the county's, and most homes are lived in by their owners rather than rented. A small share of adults hold a four-year degree, and a typical trip to work is a fairly short drive, with few people working from home.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, shops, and restaurants and hotels close behind. The largest workplaces in Sanger include Sanger Unified, the school district, along with Walmart and International Paper Company. Unemployment is high and has eased only slightly over the past year.
Things to do. Winters are mild and cool, summers are very hot, and rain and melted snow are scarce through the year. For a day out, Fresno Chaffee Zoo is a longer drive away, as are Millerton Lake and Pine Flat Lake, both reservoirs good for time by the water. Kearney Park is also a longer drive away, for a more relaxed afternoon outdoors.
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- 7,318households
- 14%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 5%work from home
What residents 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 January, with highs near 61° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 102° and lows near 68°. About 12 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Fresno Northeast weather station, 10 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Sanger
- Fruit Harvest FamilyFruit and tree nut combination farming3,506
- Sanger UnifiedSchool district1,291FTE
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters359
- ADCO Manufacturing, A Massman CompanyPackaging machinery manufacturing155
- International Paper CompanyBoxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard125
- Builders FirstSourceEngineered wood member manufacturing90
- Sanger Unified School District Transportation DepartmentSchool bus services65
- Sanger MhrcPsychiatric and substance abuse hospitals46
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 9 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,426 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- Earthquakesrelatively high in parts of SangerRelatively 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 Sanger’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. 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.
Sanger home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Sanger$410,012
- 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 6 Sanger 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.
- Sanger17.75%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Sanger58
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Sanger21
Zip codes with a Sanger address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Sanger — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.