Metro area · California

Visalia, CA metro area

Visalia, CA is a metropolitan area of 1 county in California, home to 485,146 residents. Visalia, CA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 11 out of 100 (very low), ranking #826 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in California it ranks #31 of 34. It ranks best on suicide rate (low), comfortable days (high) and drought exposure (low). It ranks worst on high ozone days (high), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) (high) and unemployment rate (high).

11Very low
Quality-of-life score
#826 of 925 metro and micro areas
California
#31 of 34 in CA
Population
485,146 (2025)
Land area
4,824 mi²
Density
100.6 /mi²
CBSA code
47300

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Visalia, CA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety35#601/924
  • Economy20#744/925
  • Housing15#788/925
  • Health53#433/925
  • Healthcare34#609/923
  • Environment6#865/917
  • Education5#876/925
  • Infrastructure46#498/925
  • Community6#868/925
  • Leisure & amenities18#755/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Visalia, CA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Visalia, CA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Visalia, CA metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Visalia, CA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Tulare CountyCentral county17485,146

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. VisaliaPrincipal city143,939

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Visalia143,939
  2. Tulare70,945
  3. Porterville63,157
  4. Dinuba25,475
  5. Lindsay12,643
  6. Farmersville10,397
  7. Exeter10,258
  8. Orosi8,966
  9. Woodlake7,702
  10. Earlimart7,214
  11. Goshen5,136
  12. East Porterville5,066
  13. Ivanhoe4,629
  14. Cutler4,361
  15. Pixley3,742
  16. Tipton2,851
  17. Strathmore2,675
  18. Three Rivers2,282
  19. Poplar-Cotton Center2,171
  20. Patterson Tract2,090
  21. Richgrove1,960
  22. London1,800
  23. Terra Bella1,659
  24. Woodville1,460

Other metro and micro areas in California

Areas based in California, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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