Three Rivers, California.
Typical home $552,480 (+3.2% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,523 (+111%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $16,947 +3%
- $535,533$552,480 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $70,617 +15%
- $481,863$552,480 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.
- Three Rivers$2,900
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 25 years.
Typical home values in Three Rivers, CA rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Three Rivers, Tulare County, California
Three Rivers, in Tulare County, had 2,053 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $85,695 a year and half less, against $71,300 across Tulare County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Three Rivers is a small community with a population that is modest in size, and incomes here run above the county's. Fewer residents live below the poverty line than you might expect, and homes are valued well above what is typical for many parts of the Central Valley. Winters are cool and summers are hot, with little or no snow and a moderate amount of rain and melted snow over the year.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by farming, forestry and mining, then shops and manufacturing. A good number of people work from home. Across Tulare County, the largest workplaces include Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia Unified and Amazon, though unemployment across the county remains high and the number of jobs has slipped from a year earlier.
Things to do. Hospital Rock, an archaeological site, and Lake Kaweah, a reservoir, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Sequoia National Park, one of the best known national parks in the state, and to Kings Canyon National Park beyond it.
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- 1,167households
- 6%below the poverty line
- 17%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 December, with highs near 58° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 97° and lows near 65°. About 23 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Three Rivers Edison Ph weather station, 2 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; Three Rivers 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
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Landslidesrelatively high in parts of Three RiversRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesrelatively high in parts of Three RiversRelatively moderate
- AvalanchesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Three Rivers’ 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.
Three Rivers home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Three Rivers$552,480
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Three Rivers 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.
- Three Rivers20.22%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Three Rivers38
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Three Rivers address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Three Rivers — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.