Home GardenCA
The town, home to 1,806 people, lies in California.
Is Home Garden a good place to live?
Home Garden’s weakest subject grade is a D− for health. Home Garden’s typical July afternoon high is 98°F, where California’s towns sit at 89°F and U.S. towns at 85°F. On health, just 13 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 87% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. Home Garden has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
98% of working residents leave Home Garden for work
Where Home Garden’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Home Garden grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Home Garden is from typical.
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Moving to Home Garden: who provides what
Home Garden is unincorporated, so Kings 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 Home Garden.
A larger share of adults in Home Garden report frequent physical distress than in the typical California or U.S. town
Home Garden beats the California average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 22. Among adults locally, 41% say their health is fair or poor.
| Home Garden | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 41% | 22% | 19% |
| Diabetes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 12% | 12% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Home Garden | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.6% | 6.4% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 19.1% | 7.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Very high risk in Home Garden, with inland flooding at the top
Expected losses in Home Garden break down as 57% from inland flooding and 27% from earthquakes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Home Garden’s workers commute out: the town has 0.1 jobs for each of them
For half of commuters, work is under 18 miles away. Home Garden had 77 jobs in 2023, down 36 from 2013. Most working residents leave Home Garden for work: only 2% work in town. In Home Garden, 15% of residents live below the poverty line.
| Home Garden | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $56,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 15% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.5% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Mild winters and hot summers: that is Home Garden’s year
July afternoons reach 98°, January nights drop to 38° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
A home in Home Garden sells for about $262K at the median
For households in Home Garden, the share who live in a home they own is 61%. The rent at the middle of the market locally is $1,166 a month.
| Home Garden | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median rent | $1,166 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
| Households that own their home | 61% | 64% | 73% |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Home Garden
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Home Garden
About 4 of every 100 Home Garden residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Home Garden
Census-designated place in California, United States
Home Garden is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kings County, California, United States. The community is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southeast of the city of Hanford. It is part of the Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,653 at the 2020 United States census.
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- Area
- 0.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 246 ft
- Area code
- 559
Home Garden’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Home Garden.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Garden | — | — | B | — | B− | D− |
| Hanford | #569 | D | D | C | B | C+ |
Home Garden has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Home Garden reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Home Garden with a neighbor →
Questions about Home Garden
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Home Garden, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $165,000, 78% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B.