AuberryCA
A town of 3,240, settled in 1884.
Is Auberry a good place to live?
Auberry grades D overall, ranked 579th of 841 in California, mostly because of incomes. The median household income is $79K, and 12% of residents live below the poverty line. One bright spot: its schools rank ahead of 60% of California towns. 35% of the land in Auberry is conserved, where California’s towns sit at 4.2% and U.S. towns at 4.3%. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 74% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top.
Auberry has grown 37% from 2010 to 2020
2,369 counted in 2010 and 3,238 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Auberry grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Auberry is from typical.
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Moving to Auberry: who provides what
Auberry is unincorporated, so Fresno County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Auberry.
Auberry is a second-home town and keeps more of its land conserved than most of California, but it is a long drive from an emergency room.
Auberry’s typical home value is about $386K
The median property tax bill is $2,366, against $5,124 across California, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Just over four fifths of Auberry households own their home, above both California’s towns (64%) and U.S. towns (73%). Values rose 1.9% in the 12 months to September 2026.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
nearly a third of the land in Auberry is protected from building
Its 10,572 conserved acres are a larger share of the town than in 94% of California towns.
22 miles of trail. The density of trails in Auberry is 0.5 miles per square mile.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Auberry has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs based here grew from 370 in 2013 to 486.
The top destinations are Fresno (26%), Clovis (10%) and Shaver Lake (5%). Just 7% of Auberry’s working residents have a job in town. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs here rose by 116, to 486. The mean commuting time for Auberry comes to 31 minutes.
| Auberry | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 31 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $79,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Natural hazards: high risk in Auberry, mostly inland flooding
Of the losses FEMA expects in Auberry, 50% come from inland flooding and 38% from wildfires. Federal disaster aid has reached households in Auberry once, in 2020.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Auberry has mild winters and hot summers
The Auberry 2 Nw weather station records that the frost-free season runs about 253 days: longer than most of the country, but shorter than 76% of California places with climate records. January nights average 34.2°: milder than most of the country, but colder than 84% of California places with climate records; July afternoons average 91.7°.
About 2 inches of snow falls in a winter. Auberry’s July high is 92°F.
| Auberry | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 92°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 34°F | 41°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Auberry ranks healthier than 56% of the country’s towns
The nearest emergency room, Clovis Community Medical Center, is 22.2 miles away in a straight line.
Among adults in Auberry, 15% binge drink. Of 32 CDC measures, Auberry beats the California average on 11 and trails it on 9. In Auberry, just over three quarters of adults had a checkup this year, and 36% have high blood pressure.
| Auberry | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 35% | 36% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 76% | 72% | 79% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 36% | 31% | 35% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 16% |
| What stands out | Auberry | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 5.9% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 12.2% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 10.6% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Auberry
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Auberry; the nearest are
About 3 of every 100 Auberry residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
93% of working residents leave Auberry for work
Where Auberry’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Auberry
Census-designated place in California, United States
Auberry () is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fresno County, California, United States. The population was 3,238 at the 2020 census. Auberry is located on Little Sandy Creek 9.5 miles (15 km) west of Shaver Lake Heights, at an elevation of 2,018 feet (615 m).
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- Area
- 19 sq mi
- Elevation
- 2,018 ft
- ZIP code
- 93602
- Area code
- 559
Auberry’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Auberry.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auberry | #579 | D | C− | — | B | B |
| Shaver Lake | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Auberry reports no FBI crime data of its own. Shaver Lake isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Auberry with a neighbor →
Questions about Auberry
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Auberry, CA a good place to live?
Auberry grades D overall, better than 13% of U.S. towns and #579 of 841 in California. It grades B for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Auberry, CA expensive?
Yes. That is 5.2 years of the area's median household income ($74,468 across the Fresno, CA metro area). Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C−.