Tipton, California.
Typical home $263,640 (+2.5% in a year). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$731 (+112%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,556 +3%
- $257,084$263,640 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $36,061 +16%
- $227,578$263,640 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.
- Tipton$1,384
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 24 years.
Typical home values in Tipton, CA rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Tipton, Tulare County, California
Tipton, in Tulare County, had 2,519 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Tipton is a small community in Tulare County, in California's Central Valley, home to relatively few residents at the last census. Incomes here run below the county's, and homes are priced well within reach compared with much of the state. Winters are cool, with mild days and chilly nights in January, and summers turn hot, with July the warmest month.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, with farming close behind, followed by shops and manufacturing. In Tipton itself, the largest workplaces include Titan Ag Services, a farm labor contractor, Ventura Coastal's Tipton Plant, which makes frozen fruit juice concentrates, and Tipton Elementary Schools. Few adults hold a four-year degree, nobody works from home, and the typical drive to work is fairly short. Across Tulare County, unemployment is high and has barely changed from a year earlier, while the number of jobs has slipped slightly.
Things to do. The closest outing is Pixley National Wildlife Refuge, a protected area a short drive away. Farther afield, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park is a protected area a longer drive away, and the Visalia Fox Theatre is a theatre a longer drive away. The Kings River and Kaweah River, both a longer drive away, offer time by the water.
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- 729households
- 6%of adults have a degree
- 19 mintypical commute
- 0%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 56° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 98° and lows near 64°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Corcoran Irrig Dist weather station, 15 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Tipton
- Titan Ag ServicesLabor contractors, farm1,030
- Ventura Coastal LLC Tipton PlantFruit juice concentrates, frozen, manufacturing190
- Tipton Elementary SchoolsSchool district61FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 2 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,220 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 wavesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- HailRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Tipton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.
Tipton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Tipton$263,640
- 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.
- Tipton5
Zip codes with a Tipton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Tipton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.