Housing in Downtown at a glance
- Population
- about 61,528
- Housing units
- about 19,700
- Median value, owner-occupied homes
- $226,000Fresno: $374,800 (-40%)
- Median gross rent
- $1,100 a monthFresno: $1,421 (-23%)
- Owner-occupied homes
- 27.3%Fresno: 50.1%
- Homes built before 1980
- 73.2%
- Median year built
- 1965
Downtown Fresno sits south of the city's population centre and ranks last of nine on both rent and homeownership. Renters pay $1,100, 23% less than Fresno's $1,421, and owners hold only 27.3% of households, 22.8 points short of the citywide 50.1%; tenants outnumber owners, 13,525 households to 5,088. The $226,000 value ranks eighth and is 40% beneath the $374,800 city median. Older buildings prevail: 73.2% went up before 1980, third-highest, and the median one dates from 1965. Southwest Fresno, a neighbour, is lower on value at $215,000, though its rent ($1,280) and owner share (37.7%) are higher. Fresno High-Roeding ($310,000) and McLane ($343,000) sit well above. It has 61,528 residents in 19,700 housing units. Southwest Fresno, much smaller, has 14,730 residents and 4,170 units, while Fresno High-Roeding has 61,013 residents and 23,077 units, a population almost the same as Downtown's.
Questions about Downtown
What is the median home value in Downtown, Fresno?
$226,000 for owner-occupied homes, against $374,800 for Fresno as a whole (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary). It is the owners' own estimate of their home's value, not a sale price.
What is the median rent in Downtown?
$1,100 a month in gross rent (rent plus utilities paid by the renter), against $1,421 in Fresno (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Do most people in Downtown own or rent?
Most rent: 27.3% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, against 50.1% in Fresno (Payotte estimate from Census ACS 2020-2024 5-year data for the census tracts within the official boundary).
Data and method
Data as of: American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau (retrieved 2026-11-02).
Estimate from the 15 census tracts whose internal point lies within the official boundary: counts are summed, and each median is recomputed from the summed value, rent and year-built brackets (grouped median, linear interpolation). The gap with the city is measured with the same method on the whole city.
Downtown is one of the 9 community plan areas of Fresno: estimated population about 61,528 (Payotte estimate: Census ACS 2020-2024 populations of the census tracts whose internal point lies inside the boundary; boundaries from City of Fresno GIS, Community Plan Areas, consulted 2026-11-02).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, tables B01003, B25001, B25003, B25034, B25063, B25064, B25075, B25077; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer files (census tract internal points). City figures: the same survey, published for Fresno as a whole. Home values are owners' estimates, not sale prices.
Near Downtown
The closest sectors of Fresno, by distance between population centres.
Other sectors of Fresno
Five trades, one spot each
Payotte lists one professional per trade in Downtown. No one is listed yet: every spot is open.
- Real estate agentOpen spot
- Mortgage loan officerOpen spot
- Home inspectorOpen spot
- Real estate attorneyOpen spot
- AppraiserOpen spot
Work in one of these trades in Downtown? Ask for your spot.