Strathmore, California.
Typical home $308,280 (+3.9% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$889 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,599 +4%
- $296,681$308,280 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $62,310 +25%
- $245,970$308,280 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.
- Strathmore$1,618
- 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 Strathmore, CA rose 3.9% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Strathmore, Tulare County, California
Strathmore, in Tulare County, had 2,830 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $43,387 a year and half less, against $71,300 across Tulare County. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Strathmore is a small community in Tulare County, in California's Central Valley, with a population that fills a handful of neighborhoods rather than a grid of city blocks. Household incomes here run well below the county's, and typical home values are modest compared with much of California. Very few adults hold a four-year degree, and only a small number work from home.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in shops and in manufacturing. Villa Park Strathmore, which sorts, grades and packs fruit, is among the largest workplaces in town, along with Strathmore Union Elementary Schools and Family Healthcare Network. Unemployment across Tulare County is high and has barely changed from a year ago, and the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Lake Success, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Lake Kaweah is another reservoir, and Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is a protected area that is also a longer drive. Winters are cool and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings little rain.
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- 1%of adults have a degree
- 6%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 57° and lows near 37°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 64°. About 12 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Lindsay weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Strathmore
- Villa Park StrathmoreFruit sorting, grading, and packing138
- Strathmore Union Elementary SchoolsSchool district74FTE
- Family Healthcare Network (025)Clinics/centers of health practitioners from more than one industry practicing within the same establishment30
- Prado Farm Labor ServicesFarm labor contractors28
- Vollmer ExcavationRoad construction25
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 221 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
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- WildfireRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Strathmore’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 Tulare County and the Visalia, CA metro.
Strathmore home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Strathmore$308,280
- 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.
- Strathmore11
Zip codes with a Strathmore address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Strathmore — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.