Metro area · California

Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area

Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA is a metropolitan area of 4 counties in California, home to 2,477,274 residents. Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area has a quality-of-life score of 65 out of 100 (high), ranking #325 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in California it ranks #12 of 34. It ranks best on access to exercise opportunities (high), average weekly wage (high) and broadband subscriptions (high). It ranks worst on median Air Quality Index (high), high ozone days (high) and home price to income ratio (high).

65High
Quality-of-life score
#325 of 925 metro and micro areas
California
#12 of 34 in CA
Population
2,477,274 (2025)
Land area
5,094 mi²
Density
486.3 /mi²
CBSA code
40900

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 69 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety46#500/924
  • Economy82#167/925
  • Housing5#883/925
  • Health86#133/925
  • Healthcare91#80/923
  • Environment20#736/917
  • Education76#223/925
  • Infrastructure86#127/925
  • Community32#626/925
  • Leisure & amenities67#303/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

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.

Metro and micro areas like Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro area 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.

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).

Income

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

Homes

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

Getting to work

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

Jobs and pay

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

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.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Sacramento CountyCentral county521,618,460
  2. Placer CountyCentral county84442,081
  3. El Dorado CountyCentral county85192,323
  4. Yolo CountyOutlying county59224,410

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. FolsomPrincipal city83,916
  2. Rancho CordovaPrincipal city81,849
  3. RosevillePrincipal city155,955
  4. SacramentoPrincipal city528,706
  5. West SacramentoPrincipal city54,927

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Sacramento528,706
  2. Elk Grove179,155
  3. Roseville155,955
  4. Arden-Arcade94,994
  5. Citrus Heights86,995
  6. Folsom83,916
  7. Rancho Cordova81,849
  8. Carmichael76,948
  9. Rocklin73,327
  10. Davis66,978
  11. Woodland61,854
  12. West Sacramento54,927
  13. Lincoln52,956
  14. El Dorado Hills51,026
  15. Florin50,211
  16. Antelope48,301
  17. North Highlands47,957
  18. Vineyard43,751
  19. Foothill Farms36,435
  20. Orangevale35,958
  21. Fair Oaks32,799
  22. Galt25,962
  23. Rosemont23,766
  24. Granite Bay21,673

Other metro and micro areas in California

Areas based in California, best score first.

Neighboring metro and micro areas

Places that share a border, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

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.

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