El Dorado Hills, California

Area Profile

51,026 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for El Dorado Hills, in El Dorado County.

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How this area ranks
Housing affordability2592nd of 4,223 published cities73
ClimateTop 16% of 4,223 published cities81
Physical resilience3572nd of 4,182 published cities21
AccessTop 42% of 4,226 published cities94
Economic stabilityTop 30% of 4,226 published cities70
The quick read

Rent takes 19% of median household income here, below the 30% threshold conventionally called cost-burdened, and the median home is 5.5 times that income.

Physical-risk exposure is above the national median, driven mainly by inland flooding, wildfire and earthquake.

A major airport is 19 miles away, giving the area unusually direct access to the national air network.

At a glance

Population
51,026
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$165,349
Top 3% nationally
Density
1,053/sq mi
48.5 sq mi of land
Median age
45.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
El Dorado County
California
Metro area
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA
Nearest major airport
MCC
19 mi · Mc Clellan Airfield
Median home value
$909,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

60% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 93% of measured US cities.

Household income is higher than at least 97% of measured US cities.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$12,019$165,349Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$4,046$75,619Top 5%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate3.5%Bottom 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute31.9 minTop 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher59.9%Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Labor force participation60.1%Bottom 48%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$77,150Top 25%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$59,750Top 21%2025 OEWS
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024165k140k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $165,349 in the 2024 ACS 5-Year. Consecutive releases share four years of sample, so AreaProfile shows them as a record of successive estimates and does not compute a year-over-year change from them.
Largest occupations — Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides60,350$34,320
Management Analysts25,600$82,990
Fast Food and Counter Workers24,910$42,860
Registered Nurses23,590$171,460
Retail Salespersons22,970$38,100
Office Clerks, General21,340$48,940

Occupational employment and wages are published for metropolitan areas rather than for individual cities or ZIP areas, so these describe the wider labor market this location sits in. 2025 OEWS, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There are 23.3 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
13
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
23.3
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Oak Ridge HighEl Dorado Union High2,34625.5
John Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills · charterJohn Adams Academy - El Dorado Hills District1,58021.1
Rolling Hills MiddleBuckeye Union Elementary77821.0
Marina Village MiddleRescue Union Elementary75021.4
Charter Montessori Valley View Campus · charterBuckeye Union Elementary69224.7
Lakeview ElementaryRescue Union Elementary52725.1
Jackson ElementaryRescue Union Elementary52124.8
Lake Forest ElementaryRescue Union Elementary42120.0
Silva Valley ElementaryBuckeye Union Elementary41627.7
Oak Meadow ElementaryBuckeye Union Elementary41227.5
William Brooks ElementaryBuckeye Union Elementary37226.6
Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter · charterBuckeye Union Elementary18016.4

12.4% of students here are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That describes the circumstances families arrive with rather than how the schools perform, which is why AreaProfile shows it and does not score it.

Public schools only, from the NCES Common Core of Data. Schools are placed by ZIP code, so this is which schools are in this place rather than which one a particular address is zoned for — district boundaries do not follow municipal ones, and enrollment zones change. Fully virtual schools are excluded: they enroll students from across the state while reporting one administrative address, and counting them here would describe a school population this place does not have. The assessment covers grades 3 through 8, so a high school shows no proficiency figure — a dash in those columns means the test was not given at that school, not that it performed badly. Proficiency is measured against California’s own standard, so it compares cleanly within the state and only broadly against other states; AreaProfile therefore ranks it within state. The directory is current, while the proficiency figures are from the last school year with national coverage before the pandemic interrupted testing.

Housing & affordability

How it’s calculated →

Median rent of $2,552 takes 19% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.5 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
18.5%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,552
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$909,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.50Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate87.5%Top 26%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±63118,791Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$239$2,552Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$16,083$909,500Top 3%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income18.5%Top 50%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate3.5%Bottom 21%2024 ACS 5-Year

Both affordability measures come from the same ACS release as the income they are compared with, so the comparison is like for like. They describe housing cost against local earnings and are not a cost-of-living index — transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes are not included, and a place can look affordable here and still be expensive to live in for reasons this does not capture.

Growth & development

How it’s calculated →

No building-permit activity is published for this location by the Census Building Permits Survey.

Weather & climate

9 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 94°F and January a low of 41°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 19.2 inches.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station SACRAMENTO 5 ESE, 21.6 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND3.9"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation19.2"1991-2020 Normals
Annual snowfall0.0"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low41°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high94°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months91991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing29°F1991-2020 Normals

Climate figures are thirty-year normals, not current conditions. They describe what a typical year looks like rather than what the weather is doing today.

Physical risk

21 / 100
Physical resilience

The hazards accounting for most of this area's expected annual loss are inland flooding, wildfire and earthquake.

WildfireHigh
LandslideModerate
Inland floodingElevated
EarthquakeHigh
AvalancheModerate
DroughtModerate
Heat waveModerate

Low or minimal exposure: winter weather, lightning, volcanic activity, hail, strong wind, tornado.

Hazard ratings are AreaProfile calculations derived from the FEMA National Risk Index v1.20.0 (December 2025). FEMA publishes at county level. City values are the population-weighted mean of the counties the city overlaps, using AreaProfile place-to-county land-area weights. FEMA does not endorse this presentation. Higher physical resilience means lower exposure.

These are deaths, not offences. AreaProfile does not publish reported crime, and this is not a substitute for it — it says nothing about burglary, theft or assault.

El Dorado County records 2.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, near the middle of counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 10.4 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 19.8 per 100,000 residents in El Dorado County.

Homicide
2.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
10.4
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
19.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
16.6
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths

Firearm deaths count every intent together, and nationally the majority are suicides rather than homicides. The two columns overlap and should not be added.

Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for El Dorado County as a whole — these rates are not published below county level. A county can hold both a dense city centre and a suburb whose experience of it is nothing alike, so this describes the county around El Dorado Hills rather than El Dorado Hills itself. That is why AreaProfile shows these figures and does not put them in the Area Score. Where fewer than ten deaths were recorded the count is suppressed at source, and a rate built on single figures moves sharply between releases. What this measure has that reported crime does not: a death certificate is filed whether or not the local police agency submitted a return that year, so the figures stay comparable between places and over time.

What this profile does not cover

Three things people look for are missing from every AreaProfile page, and each is missing for a reason rather than by oversight. The Area Score is calculated without them and the weighting is documented on the methodology page.

Reported crime
The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer is the only source for reported offences with national coverage and a published method, and it requires an API key AreaProfile does not hold. Arrest counts, news volume and commercial “safety scores” are not substituted in the meantime. What is published above under Safety is a different measurement — deaths rather than offences, from death certificates rather than police returns — and it covers no property crime at all.
Taxes
No tax dataset has met the source admission test for coverage, transparent methodology and update cadence. Nothing here is individualized tax advice.
Full cost of living
No public source publishes one with national coverage and a documented method. Housing affordability above is computed from published rent, price and income, and excludes transport, groceries, healthcare, insurance and taxes — commuting cost in particular tends to offset suburban housing savings.

Access

7 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 19 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Mc Clellan AirfieldMCC19 mi10,599 ft
Sacramento IntlSMF29 mi8,605 ft
Stockton MetroSCK55 mi10,245 ft

Airport identity, position and runway data come from the FAA. “Major airport” is an AreaProfile classification — a public-use civil airport with a paved runway of at least 8,000 feet — not an FAA hub designation. Distances are straight-line, not driving distance.

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Other cities in Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
SacramentoSacramento County528,70664vs El Dorado Hills
Elk GroveSacramento County179,15568vs El Dorado Hills
RosevillePlacer County155,95565vs El Dorado Hills
Arden-ArcadeSacramento County94,994vs El Dorado Hills
Citrus HeightsSacramento County86,99561vs El Dorado Hills
FolsomSacramento County83,91671vs El Dorado Hills
Rancho CordovaSacramento County81,84967vs El Dorado Hills
CarmichaelSacramento County76,948vs El Dorado Hills
RocklinPlacer County73,32768vs El Dorado Hills
DavisYolo County66,97852vs El Dorado Hills
WoodlandYolo County61,85452vs El Dorado Hills
West SacramentoYolo County54,92760vs El Dorado Hills

Every city here is measured on the same scale from the same source releases, so the comparison is like for like. A higher Area Score reflects AreaProfile’s standardized weighting rather than a judgment about which is the better place to live.

Data & methodology

Used forSourceSource periodUpdated
AccessFederal Aviation Administration
Airports (NASR) — Aeronautical Data Delivery Service
NASR current cycle28-day NASR cycle
Physical riskFederal Emergency Management Agency
National Risk Index
National Risk Index December 2025 (v1.20.0)Periodic dataset versions (v1.20.0 current)
ClimateNOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Monthly)
1991-2020 NormalsEvery ten years (next release follows the 2001–2030 period)
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
Demographics, Housing, Income, JobsU.S. Census Bureau
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates (Table-Based Summary File)
2024 ACS 5-YearAnnual (5-year estimates released each December)
safetyU.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Provisional county-level mortality by intent
April, 2025 to March, 2026Quarterly, with a rolling twelve-month window alongside complete calendar years
schoolsU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessments
2024-25 school yearDirectory annually; assessment results as EDFacts releases them

Profile recalculated August 30, 2026. Recalculation is not the same as new source data — each figure above shows the period its source actually covers. Read the full methodology or browse every source.

ZIP codes in El Dorado Hills

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9576247,657$165,467