Visalia, California.
Typical home $396,267 (+1.7% in a year), asking rent $1,839 (+2.2%). Visalia, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,110 (+115%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $6,801 +2%
- $389,466$396,267 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $60,965 +18%
- $335,302$396,267 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.
- Visalia$2,080
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 21 years.
Typical home values in Visalia, CA rose 1.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in Visalia, CA rose 2.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in Visalia runs $897/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $1,031 in Oct 2023.
That is $2,736 a month against $1,839 rent: a $2,080 mortgage payment, plus $232 property tax and $424 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — Visalia
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$2,736
- Renting$1,839
- Mortgage only$2,080
Property tax · $232/mo 0.70% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Tulare County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $424/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in Visalia, Tulare County, California
Visalia is a city of 141,384 people in Tulare County. Half its households earn more than $81,989 a year and half less, against $71,300 across Tulare County; 12% of its people live below the poverty line. 61% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 39% are rented. Unemployment in Visalia was 7.0% in August 2026, and Tulare County had 1.7% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
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. Visalia is a city in Tulare County with a fairly young population, with residents who are younger on average than across much of the country. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and household incomes run above the county's, though homes here cost a good deal more to buy or rent than many people in the Central Valley would expect. Winters are mild and cool, with almost no snow, while summers turn hot and the rain is light.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants and hotels, and in manufacturing. Among the largest workplaces in Visalia are Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia Unified and College of the Sequoias. Unemployment is much as it was a year earlier, and a typical commute is short, with only a small number of people working from home.
Things to do. The Visalia Fox Theatre is a theatre in or beside town, and Mill Creek runs through or alongside it. A short drive away are Cutler Park and the Kaweah River. For a longer outing, Lake Kaweah is a reservoir a longer drive away.
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- 47,089households
- 24%of adults have a degree
- 12%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What residents 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 55° and lows near 38°; warmest in July, with highs near 94° and lows near 67°. About 10 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Visalia weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Visalia
- Kaweah Delta Medical CenterGeneral hospital3,619FTE
- Visalia UnifiedSchool district2,997FTE
- Tulare County Office of Education SchoolsSchool district1,039FTE
- UPSCouriers and express delivery services1,038
- College of the SequoiasTwo-year college968
- Grapeman LaborFarm labor contractors562
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer441
- Graphic Packaging InternationalPaper and paperboard438
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 133 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,215 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and colleges from IPEDS (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
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Visalia’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.
Visalia home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Visalia$396,267
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Visalia listings, and the typical home goes pending in 22 days — the market is cooling.
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.
- Visalia30.16%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Visalia22
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Visalia415
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Visalia131
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Visalia$388,264
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Visalia99.39%
Zip codes with a Visalia address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Visalia — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in Visalia
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93291 | Visalia | 63,568 | $1,983 | $426,473 |
| 93277 | Visalia | 53,985 | $1,661 | $373,672 |
| 93292 | Visalia | 45,780 | $1,790 | $399,454 |
| 93227 | Goshen | 221 | — | $331,992 |