Terra Bella, California.
Typical home $389,004 (+5.5% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,106 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $20,116 +5%
- $368,888$389,004 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $69,206 +22%
- $319,798$389,004 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.
- Terra Bella$2,042
- 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 Terra Bella, CA rose 5.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Terra Bella, Tulare County, California
Terra Bella, in Tulare County, had 2,910 people in the 2020 census. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Terra Bella is a small community in Tulare County, in California's Central Valley. Few adults here hold a four-year degree, and the local economy leans on farm work, which fits the surrounding orchards and fields. Homes cost less than in much of California.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, in farming, in shops and in manufacturing. Across Tulare County, some of the biggest employers are Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia Unified and Amazon. Unemployment across the county is high, and it has barely eased from a year earlier, while the county has fewer jobs than the year before.
Things to do. Lake Success, a reservoir, is a short drive away. Farther afield, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is a protected area that preserves a notable piece of California history, and the Visalia Fox Theatre offers an evening out in a historic theatre. Winters are cool and mild, summers are hot, and rain and snow are light across the year.
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- 4%of adults have a degree
- 7%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 59° and lows near 40°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 68°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Porterville weather station, 8 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; Terra Bella has two 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
- WildfireRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Terra Bella’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.
Terra Bella home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Terra Bella$389,004
- 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.
- Terra Bella14
Zip codes with a Terra Bella address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Terra Bella — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.