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Energy Capital of California
Kern CountyOil, Farms and Wind
Kern produces more oil than any county in the state, farms more ground than most, and turns thousands of wind turbines above Tehachapi, all of which shows up in how people here get paid.
11
Cities
910K
Population
Bakersfield out to Tehachapi and the desert
Eleven Kern cities with live rate data, from valley farm towns to the pass and the high desert beyond it
Why Kern buyers work with SRK CAPITAL
Oil, agriculture, aerospace and a base, each with its own income puzzle
Variable income read properly
Rig work and harvest work swing month to month, and the right lender averages it instead of flinching at it.
More than 160 desks quoted
Bakersfield branches hand you their sheet. Ours is whichever of the wholesale desks is sharpest that morning.
Two weeks to the table
Fourteen-day closings are on offer when a seller has already picked a moving date.
Licensed and serving Kern County buyers since 2022
Buying somewhere in Kern?
Oil pay, farm pay, base pay and prison pay each get read differently. Your numbers go out to a wholesale panel 160 lenders deep before a rate comes back.