Census-designated place · Solano County, California

Hartley, California

Hartley is a census-designated place in Solano County, California, part of the Vallejo, CA metro area. It has 2,431 residents. Hartley, California has a quality-of-life score of 40 out of 100 (moderate), ranking #9,349 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within California it ranks #504 of 1,062 cities and towns. It ranks best on drought exposure (low), comfortable days (high) and unemployment rate (low). It ranks worst on students per teacher (high), mammography screening (low) and high school diploma or higher (low).

40Moderate

Quality-of-life score: #9,349 of 15,651 cities and towns
California: #504 of 1,062 in CA
Population: 2,431 (2020-2024)
Land area: 6 mi²
Density: 375.6 /mi²
FIPS code: 0632340

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 75 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety20#12,432/15,637
Economy90#1,553/15,631
Housing6#14,127/14,977
Health69#4,826/15,609
Healthcare86#2,262/15,650
Environment67#5,043/15,453
Education8#14,441/15,649
Infrastructure31#10,780/15,650
Community30#11,007/15,651
Leisure & amenities39#9,554/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Hartley, California ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Solano County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Drought exposure · low0%
98/100California 9%United States 43%Oct 2025–Sep 2026National Drought Mitigation Center (University of Nebraska–Lincoln), USDA and NOAASolano County value
Comfortable days · high38.0%
96/100California 34.8%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationSolano County value
Unemployment rate · low0.6%
95/100California 5.5%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Distance to an Amtrak station · low5 mi
95/100California 10 miUnited States 43 mi2026Federal Aviation Administration · Bureau of Transportation Statistics · U.S. Census BureauSolano County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100California 5.1United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationSolano County value
Median Air Quality Index · low33
91/100California 602025U.S. Environmental Protection AgencySolano County value

Weaknesses

Students per teacher · high22.7×
1/100California 21.7×United States 15.2×2024National Center for Education StatisticsSolano County value
Mammography screening · low33.0%
4/100California 38.0%United States 46.0%2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSolano County value
High school diploma or higher · low92.0%
5/100California 84.7%United States 89.6%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Home price to income ratio · high6.8×
6/100California 7.4×United States 4.1×2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25077
Natural hazard risk · high93.7
6/100California 87.32025Federal Emergency Management AgencySolano County value
Social associations · low5.3 /10k
7/100California 6.2 /10kUnited States 9.1 /10k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteSolano County value

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

PopulationFalling
2,960 (2015-2019) → 2,431 (2020-2024)
−18%5 yearsCensus table B01003US 328,329,953 → 340,003,797
Rent-burdened householdsWorsening
31.4% (2015-2019) → 46.6% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B25070US 49.6% → 51.1%
Bachelor's degree or higherImproving
16.9% (2015-2019) → 28.7% (2020-2024)
+12 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%
Broadband subscriptionsWorsening
92.7% (2015-2019) → 82.0% (2020-2024)
−11 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
High school diploma or higherImproving
83.6% (2015-2019) → 92.0% (2020-2024)
+8.4 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 88.0% → 89.6%
Unemployment rateImproving
8.0% (2015-2019) → 0.6% (2020-2024)
−7.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%

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.

Over about five years, Hartley, California improved on 1 of 9 measures with a comparison and declined on 0. 8 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved1

Bachelor's++12 points16.9% → 28.7%

Declined0

No measure declined by more than its margin of error.

All 9 measures

Change of every measure of Hartley, California between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	27.9 min2015-2019	24.2 min2020-2024	−3.6 min	Within the margin of error	83%
Bachelor's degree or higher	16.9%2015-2019	28.7%2020-2024	+12 points	Improved	93%
Broadband subscriptions	92.7%2015-2019	82.0%2020-2024	−11 points	Within the margin of error	1%
Effective property tax rate	0.74%2015-2019	0.75%2020-2024	+0 points	Within the margin of error	14%
High school diploma or higher	83.6%2015-2019	92.0%2020-2024	+8.4 points	Within the margin of error	93%
Home price to income ratio	5.0×2015-2019	6.8×2020-2024	+1.8×	Within the margin of error	6%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3622015-2019	0.3342020-2024	−0.028	Within the margin of error	73%
Median household income	$108,5102015-2019	$124,2542020-2024	+15%	Within the margin of error	23%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Hartley, California five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Hartley, California 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.

For comparison, Hartley, California itself moved −2 points in standing on average over the same 8 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

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).

Age and sex

2,431 residents (±633)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

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

Household income

974 households (±260)

Hartley, California
California share

Under $25k12%†119
$25k–50k3.4%†33
$50k–75k

Homes

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

Owners and renters

974 households (±260)

Hartley, California
California share

Own74%721
Rent26%†253

Biggest shift since 2015–2019: Own (−13.2 points).

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

Table view

Getting to work

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

How people get to work

1,061 workers (±435)

Hartley, California
California share

Drive alone70%†745
Carpool15%†154
Public transit

Jobs and pay

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

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Vallejo, CA

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.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Solano County, the county holding most of Hartley's residents.

Solano County has 7,755 employer establishments, 172 for every 10,000 residents (0.69× the US rate of 248; 0.65× California's), with 122,010 paid employees at an average annual pay of $63,168. The Census Bureau also counts 30,542 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 7,755; 30,542 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 172; US 248 · California 263
Paid employees: 122,010
Average annual pay: $63,168; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Solano County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Restaurants and other eating places	715	15.8	0.86×About typical	12,731	$26,305	137
Ambulatory health care services	676	15	0.72×Fewer than typical	11,613	$111,195	1,397
Specialty trade contractors	568	12.6	0.81×About typical	5,924	$85,046	1,272
Lessors of real estate	389	8.6	0.70×Fewer than typical	1,505	$54,124	2,238
Limited-service restaurants	318	7	0.88×About typical	6,028	$24,145	56
Full-service restaurants	293	6.5	0.85×About typical	5,071	$29,636	53
Construction of buildings	252	5.6	0.74×Fewer than typical	2,190	$86,011	787
Services to buildings and dwellings	234	5.2	0.77×Fewer than typical	1,671	$50,378	1,707
Automotive repair and maintenance	232	5.1	1.02×About typical	1,426	$51,879	360
Truck transportation	232	5.1	1.02×About typical	1,966	$61,486	826
Building equipment contractors	223	4.9	0.82×About typical	2,551	$98,410	292
Offices of dentists	201	4.5	1.11×About typical	1,368	$62,912	48

Rank places for an industry Open Solano County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 451,377 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $171.1K of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Hartley, California: $70.39 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $171.1K; +89% vs FY2025
Per resident: $70.39; US $1,994
Sole-source: 11%; US 30%
Single offer: 0.7%; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Agricultural Marketing Service$114.5K67%
Office of the Chief Financial Officer$19.3K11%
Drug Enforcement Administration$17.6K10%
Department of the Army$15.4K9.0%
Department of Veterans Affairs$1,9831.2%
United States Mint$1,3810.8%
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services$5280.3%
Federal Prison System / Bureau of Prisons$4420.3%

Top recipients

MARIANI PACKING CO., INC.$114.9K67%
ADVANCED COMPUTER CONCEPTS, INC.$19.3K11%
PRYME INFIL, INC.$17.6K10%
ONEIDA ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC$15.4K9.0%
RECOLOGY VACAVILLE SOLANO$1,9831.2%

Spending by fiscal year

2.8KFY2017
217.3KFY2018
651.3KFY2019
274.2KFY2020
1.8KFY2021
22.8KFY2022
44.5KFY2023
192.6KFY2024

Top industries (NAICS)

Fruit and vegetable preserving and specialty food manufacturing · 3114$114.3K67%
Computer systems design and related services · 5415$19.3K11%
Software publishers · 5132$17.6K10%
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services · 5416$15.4K9.0%
Waste collection · 5621$1,9831.2%
Communications equipment manufacturing · 3342

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Hartley, California, so they do not add up across cities.

Hartley, California's figures are part of those of Solano County, CA ($152.6M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.1% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Hartley is mostly in Solano County.

See federal money in Solano County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Hartley, California is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

Adam B. SchiffD-

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Solano County55100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Vallejo, CA61

Other cities and towns in Solano County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

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.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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