Suisun City, California

Area Profile

29,286 residents. Public schools, jobs, income, housing cost, climate and natural-hazard risk for Suisun City, in Solano County.

50out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 15% of 2,944 profiles measured

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity2854th of 3,904 cities measured45
Growth1572nd of 2,973 cities measured49
Housing affordability3785th of 4,223 cities measured50
ClimateTop 25% of 4,223 cities measured77
Physical resilience3436th of 4,182 cities measured23
Access3211th of 4,226 cities measured81
Economic stabilityTop 28% of 4,226 cities measured71
The quick read

Employment conditions sit below most comparable published city profiles: unemployment is 5.1% and the Opportunity signal places Suisun City in the bottom 27%.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 6.1 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 27% of it.

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

At a glance

Population
29,286
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$94,787
Top 22% nationally
Density
7,312/sq mi
4.0 sq mi of land
Median age
35.7
2024 ACS 5-Year
County
Solano County
California
Metro area
Vallejo, CA
Nearest major airport
OAK
38 mi · Oakland San Francisco Bay
Median home value
$579,500
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 5.1% is lower than 22% of the 3,904 measured US cities.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 13,891 employed residents.

MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Median household income ±$7,848$94,787Top 22%of 29,5732024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$2,191$37,624Top 38%of 31,4202024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.4%Bottom 40%of 31,9002024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute34.3 minTop 18%of 31,5432024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher21.1%Top 48%of 31,9192024 ACS 5-Year
Employment13,891Bottom 11%of 3,904June 2026
Employment change (3 years)1.4%Top 28%of 3,903June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 23%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force14,641Bottom 12%of 3,904June 2026
Labor force participation66.7%Top 28%of 31,9332024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$74,900Top 27%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Median annual wage$58,620Top 26%of 3,6582025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.3%Bottom 28%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate5.1%Top 22%of 3,904June 2026
Unemployment rate
2021/062022/032022/122023/092024/062025/032025/102026/068.53.6
Monthly unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, most recent value 5.1% in June 2026. A break in the line is a month the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not publish for this area — it is left empty rather than estimated.
Median household income, successive ACS releases
202120222023202497k86k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $94,787 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 — Vallejo, CA
OccupationPeople employedMedian annual wage
Home Health and Personal Care Aides7,850$34,320
Fast Food and Counter Workers4,430$44,110
Registered Nurses4,120$203,290
Retail Salespersons4,110$38,420
Cashiers3,630$37,810
Stockers and Order Fillers2,860$44,300

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 24.6 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
4
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
24.6
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Crystal MiddleFairfield-Suisun Unified77422.8
Crescent ElementaryFairfield-Suisun Unified52824.0
Suisun ElementaryFairfield-Suisun Unified51226.9
Dan O. Root ElementaryFairfield-Suisun Unified42626.6

75.0% 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 →

Prices for everything a household buys run about 9% above the national average, on the Bureau of Economic Analysis index. Housing drives most of that difference.

Median rent of $2,157 takes 27% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 6.1 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Cost of living
109.4

Prices here run about 9% above the national average. The spread between places is driven mostly by housing — goods vary far less — and this excludes taxes.

Rent as a share of income
27.3%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
6.1×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,157
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$579,500
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared nationallySource period
Cost of living index109.4Top 27%of 3,6582023
Home price to income6.11Top 8%of 28,4732024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate60.8%Bottom 22%of 31,8432024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±4679,811Top 6%of 32,3302024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$94$2,157Top 7%of 23,4322024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$12,023$579,500Top 9%of 29,3422024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income27.3%Top 11%of 23,2012024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate1.8%Bottom 15%of 32,0012024 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 →
Development Momentum
49/ 100
Ranks 1572 of 2,973 published city profiles
Permitting is decreasing, measured from 2022 to 2025.

An AreaProfile calculation combining permit volume per resident, its direction over one and three years, population change and employment growth. Permit volume alone is not the measure.

Population has been broadly flat since 2020, at 29,614 in 2024.

Permitting has turned downward after moving the other way the year before.

New construction is predominantly single-family: only 0% of permitted units are in buildings of five or more homes.

At 0.2 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is below the median for measured US cities.

Units permitted
7
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
0.2
Bottom 14% nationally
Year over year
+75%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings
Population, annual estimates
2020202120222023202430k29k
Census Population Estimates Program, July 1 of each year. These annual estimates are designed for year-over-year comparison, unlike the ACS five-year figure shown as this profile's population.
Housing units permitted per year
20222023202420258.05.0
Annual totals from the Census Building Permits Survey. Permitting in 2025 was lower than 2022 (−38%).

Weather & climate

8 of the twelve months have a normal average temperature between 55°F and 80°F. July averages a high of 95°F and January a low of 38°F.

Normal annual precipitation is 24.8 inches.

Air quality measures a median index of 39, in the Good band, and one day a year passes 100, the threshold at which the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups.

30°50°70°90°110°JFMAMJJASOND
Solid line: normal daily high. Dashed line: normal daily low. 1991-2020 normals from NOAA station VACAVILLE NUT TREE AP, 9.4 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
90th percentile air quality index58.02024 calendar year
Annual precipitation24.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low38°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Days above AQI 10012024 calendar year
Median air quality index39.02024 calendar year
Seasonal temperature swing30°F1991-2020 Normals
Air quality
Median air quality index
39
Good on a typical day
Worst tenth of days
58
90th percentile index
Days above 100
1
unhealthy for sensitive groups

A comfortable median and a bad tail are different problems. Wildfire smoke and summer ozone show up in the worst tenth of days, not in the middle of the year.

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. Air quality is measured rather than modelled, by EPA monitors, and published by county only where a monitor sits — roughly half the counties AreaProfile publishes have one, and the rest show nothing rather than an estimate. Air masses are regional, so a county reading describes the air over a place reasonably well, but it is still the county reading.

Physical risk

23 / 100
Physical resilience

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

DroughtElevated
EarthquakeHigh
Inland floodingHigh
WildfireModerate
Coastal floodingModerate
Heat waveModerate

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

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.

Violent crime
266
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year
Property crime
1,420
per 100,000 residents · 2025 calendar year

Below these are deaths rather than offences, published for the county. The two measure different things and are not comparable with each other.

Suisun City's police department reported 266 violent offences per 100,000 residents, near the middle of places with a department reporting. Property crime runs at 1,420.

Solano County records 7.3 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents a year, higher than most counties measured. The CDC does not publish this below county level.

Firearm deaths of all intents run at 11.8 per 100,000 — more than the homicide rate, because nationally most firearm deaths are suicides.

Drug overdose deaths run at 28.3 per 100,000 residents in Solano County.

Homicide
7.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Firearm deaths, all intents
11.8
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Drug overdose
28.3
per 100,000 residents · under 10 deaths
Suicide
13.1
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.

Offences are reported to the FBI by Suisun City’s own police department, for the population it serves, and are shown only where it reported every month of the year — a partial year is withheld rather than scaled up. Reported crime counts what was reported to and recorded by police, which is not the same as what happened, and a place that draws a large daytime workforce carries incidents its residents did not generate. Age-adjusted rates from provisional death certificate records, published by the CDC for Solano 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 Suisun City rather than Suisun City 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.

Taxes
Taxes are not published: no source covers them nationally with a method open enough to check. Cost of living now is — the index above is the Bureau of Economic Analysis price parity for this area — but it is a price level for all consumption rather than a budget for a household, its spread is driven mostly by housing, and it excludes taxes. Housing affordability is computed separately from rent, price and income, because that answers a narrower and more actionable question. Nothing here is individualised tax advice.
Anything about a specific address
Every figure describes an area, not a street or a house. School attendance zones, insurance pricing and the character of a neighbourhood all vary within the places measured here.

Access

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 38 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Oakland San Francisco BayOAK38 mi10,520 ft
Sacramento IntlSMF38 mi8,605 ft
Mc Clellan AirfieldMCC44 mi10,599 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 Vallejo, CA

Same metropolitan area, measured the same way
CityCountyPopulationArea ScoreCompare
VallejoSolano County124,26846vs Suisun City
FairfieldSolano County120,78550vs Suisun City
VacavilleSolano County102,59653vs Suisun City
BeniciaSolano County26,74957vs Suisun City
DixonSolano County19,68353vs Suisun City
Rio VistaSolano County10,10253vs Suisun City

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
safetyFederal Bureau of Investigation, Crime Data Explorer
Summarized offense counts by law enforcement agency
2025 calendar yearAnnually, with monthly revisions
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)
HousingU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional price parities and county personal income
2023Annually, each December
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
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)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
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
ClimateU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Air Quality System
Daily Air Quality Index by county
2024 calendar yearAnnually, once a calendar year is complete

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 Suisun City

1 published ZIP profiles
ZIPPopulationMedian household incomeArea Score
9458529,357$94,74050