Squaw Valley, California.
Typical home $388,209 (+1.9% in a year). Fresno, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,090 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $7,098 +2%
- $381,111$388,209 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $44,234 +13%
- $343,976$388,209 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.
- Squaw Valley$2,038
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Squaw Valley, CA rose 1.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Squaw Valley, Fresno County, California
Squaw Valley, in Fresno County, had 3,564 people in the 2020 census. 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 residents work in shops, then schools and health care.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Squaw Valley is a small community in Fresno County, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Winters are cold and snowy for California, with a good deal of snow each year and plenty of rain and melted snow overall, while summers are warm. Incomes in town run below the county's, and a share of residents live below the poverty line. Homes here are typically worth less than in much of the state, and relatively few adults hold a four-year degree.
Work. Many residents work in shops, in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, and in manufacturing. Few people work from home, and the typical commute is long. Some of the largest workplaces across Fresno County are Fresno Unified, Community Regional Medical Center and Clovis Unified. Unemployment across the county is high and has eased only slightly over the past year, and the number of jobs has barely changed.
Things to do. The best-known places to visit from Squaw Valley are all a longer drive away. Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park are both national parks, and Pine Flat Lake is a reservoir for time on the water. Crystal Cave, a tourist attraction, is another longer drive from town.
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- 1,157households
- 28%of adults have a degree
- 16%below the poverty line
- 57 mintypical commute
- 3%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 December, with highs near 46° and lows near 25°; warmest in July, with highs near 79° and lows near 52°. About 186 inches of snow and 42 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Grant Grove weather station, 13 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 across the county; Squaw Valley has none of its own. 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
- DroughtRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Landslidesrelatively high in parts of Squaw ValleyRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of Squaw ValleyRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Squaw Valley’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. 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.
Squaw Valley home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Squaw Valley$388,209
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 6 Squaw Valley listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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.
- Squaw Valley16.29%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Squaw Valley21
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Squaw Valley address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Squaw Valley — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.