Many recreation facilities are centered in Kingsburg. A membership golf club has a beautiful 18 hole golf course along the Kings River. The Kingsburg Gun Club is the host to the annual California State Trapshoot. Private river resorts near by offer motel accommodations, camper hookups, camping, boat launching, skiing, and swimming. Located in the richest agricultural district in the world, Kingsburg has farming as its economic base.
Principle crops are grapes, tree fruits, watermelons and cotton.
In addition to Sun-Maid Raisin Growers headquarters, the largest dried fruit processing plant in the world, the community has the oldest Del Monte cannery, fruit packing sheds which send produce around the world, and other industries, such as the Guardian Glass Manufacturers.