Terra BellaCA
A regional job hub with 1,474 jobs. 1,659 people live in this town, settled in 1891.
Is Terra Bella a good place to live?
The best of Terra Bella’s subject grades is a B for walkability; the weakest is a C− for incomes. Terra Bella’s midsummer high is 98°F, against 89°F in California’s towns and 85°F across U.S. towns. Only 84 of California’s 1,058 towns score higher on cost of living. Terra Bella has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Terra Bella stand out
Where Terra Bella beats most towns.
Terra Bella has shrunk 12% from 2010 to 2020
3,310 counted in 2010 and 2,910 in 2020.
U.S. Census 2010 & 2020 counts
How Terra Bella grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Terra Bella is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Moving to Terra Bella: who provides what
Terra Bella is unincorporated, so Tulare 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 Terra Bella.
With 2.6 jobs for every working resident, Terra Bella draws in 1,430 commuters
Half of commuters travel less than 29 miles. The share of residents in Terra Bella who live below the poverty line: 17%. Commuting out is the norm here: 8% of working residents work locally. The town’s typical journey to work comes in at 21 minutes.
| Terra Bella | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 21 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 17% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Median household income | $63,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Terra Bella’s schools rank behind 69% of California districts
One of its 2 schools is below, with the reason it’s listed. The public schools here belong to the Terra Bella Union Elementary school district.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terra Bella ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 455 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests
The typical home in Terra Bella: about $389K
For households in Terra Bella, the share who are owner-occupiers is 45%. In the year to September 2026, typical home values climbed 5.5%. The typical rent locally is $1,048 a month.
| Terra Bella | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 45% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,048 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Health in Terra Bella trails 69% of U.S. towns
In Terra Bella, 22% of adults 18 to 64 have no health insurance. This California town does better than the California average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 15. 29% of adults in Terra Bella worry about having enough food; 30% say their health is fair or poor.
| Terra Bella | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 66% | 72% | 79% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 16% | 14% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Terra Bella | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.1% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.2% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 22.3% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Terra Bella has a high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from inland flooding
FEMA puts 46% of Terra Bella’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 24% to heat waves. Storm and flood damage is expected to run higher than in 68% of U.S. communities. Federal aid has come to Terra Bella households in 2 declared disasters; the latest was in 2023.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Terra Bella
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Terra Bella
About 4 of every 100 Terra Bella residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
Every workday, about 1,430 people come to Terra Bella for work
Where Terra Bella’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Terra Bella
Census-designated place in California, United States
Terra Bella is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 2,910 at the 2020 census, down from 3,310 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 2.7 sq mi
- Elevation
- 486 ft
- ZIP code
- 93270
- Area code
- 559
Questions about Terra Bella
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Terra Bella, CA expensive?
That is 5.5 years of the area's median household income ($71,300 across the Visalia, 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+.