Kings County Real Estate Information Center

Kings County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. It is situated in a rich agricultural region. Kings County is also home to NAS Lemoore, which is the U.S. Navy's newest and largest master jet air station. The county seat is Hanford. The United States Census Bureau defines Kings County as encompassing the entire Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA Code 25260). The population was 152,982 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the county's population included 18,640 state prison inmates as of March 31, 2010. The California Department of Finance estimated that Kings County's population was 150,843 as of July 1, 2012. The inmate population had been reduced to 14,890 on July 31, 2012