95687Vacaville, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 95687.

52out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 21% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
Opportunity3493rd of 6,210 published ZIP areas52
Growth3240th of 5,428 published ZIP areas44
Housing affordability5433rd of 6,685 published ZIP areas57
ClimateTop 26% of 6,789 published ZIP areas77
Physical resilience5519th of 6,709 published ZIP areas23
Access4703rd of 6,791 published ZIP areas86
Economic stabilityTop 49% of 6,742 published ZIP areas60
The quick read

Residential permitting has slowed: 312 units authorized over the past twelve months, 31% below the prior year.

Buying strains local incomes far more than renting does — the median home is 5.5 times median household income, against a historic benchmark near three — while rent takes 26% of it.

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

At a glance

Population
69,390
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$109,566
Top 14% nationally
Density
1,557/sq mi
44.6 sq mi of land
Median age
38.5
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Vacaville
California
Metro area
Vallejo, CA
Nearest major airport
SMF
31 mi · Sacramento Intl
Median home value
$606,300
2024 ACS 5-Year

Jobs & opportunity

Unemployment of 4.6% is lower than 43% of the 6,544 measured US ZIP areas.

Employment fell 1.8% over the past year, to 44,786 employed residents.

Household income is higher than at least 86% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$4,400$109,566Top 14%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$1,604$44,140Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.1%Bottom 37%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute29.0 minTop 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher25.0%Top 45%2024 ACS 5-Year
Employment44,786Bottom 44%June 2026
Employment change (3 years)0.8%Top 40%June 2026
Employment change (year over year)-1.8%Bottom 22%June 2026
Labor force46,970Bottom 44%June 2026
Labor force participation58.9%Bottom 43%2024 ACS 5-Year
Mean annual wage$74,900Top 23%2025 OEWS
Median annual wage$58,620Top 21%2025 OEWS
Unemployment change (year over year)-0.5%Bottom 18%June 2026
Unemployment rate4.6%Top 43%June 2026
Median household income, successive ACS releases
2021202220232024110k95k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $109,566 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.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish labor-force data for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Vacaville, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

There are 22.0 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
10
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.0
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Will C. Wood HighVacaville Unified1,67120.6
Jean Callison ElementaryVacaville Unified76223.8
Eugene Padan ElementaryVacaville Unified75125.0
Cambridge ElementaryTravis Unified73822.4
Foxboro ElementaryTravis Unified71721.1
Cooper ElementaryVacaville Unified71022.2
Vaca Pena MiddleVacaville Unified67521.1
Sierra Vista K-8Vacaville Unified61122.6
Fairmont Charter Elementary · charterVacaville Unified58622.5
Ernest Kimme Charter Academy · charterVacaville Unified19419.4

57.2% 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 $2,355 takes 26% 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
25.8%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.5×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,355
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$606,300
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.53Top 12%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate66.9%Bottom 24%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±66723,876Top 2%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$91$2,355Top 4%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$7,804$606,300Top 9%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income25.8%Top 13%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate4.5%Bottom 20%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 →
Development Momentum
44/ 100
Ranks 3240 of 5,428 published city profiles

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.

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

At 3.0 permitted units per 1,000 residents, building activity is above the median for measured US ZIP areas.

Units permitted
312
12 months ending July 2026
Per 1,000 residents
3.0
Top 47% nationally
Year over year
−31%
vs the prior twelve months
Multifamily share
0.0%
units in 5+ unit buildings

The Building Permits Survey is not published for ZIP areas. This is the figure for Vacaville, CA, the city containing this ZIP code.

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.

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, 3.7 miles from this location.
Precipitation
JFMAMJJASOND5.3"
Normal monthly precipitation, in inches.
MetricValueSource period
Annual precipitation24.8"1991-2020 Normals
Average January low38°F1991-2020 Normals
Average July high95°F1991-2020 Normals
Comfortable months81991-2020 Normals
Seasonal temperature swing30°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

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. ZIP values are the land-area-weighted mean of the counties the ZIP Code Tabulation Area intersects. Expected annual loss is not allocated below county level. 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.

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.

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 95687 rather than 95687 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

6 major airports lie within 100 miles, the nearest 31 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Sacramento IntlSMF31 mi8,605 ft
Mc Clellan AirfieldMCC36 mi10,599 ft
Oakland San Francisco BayOAK45 mi10,520 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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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
Local Area Unemployment Statistics
June 2026Monthly
JobsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics
2025 OEWSAnnual (spring release)
DemographicsU.S. Census Bureau
Population Estimates Program
July 1, 2024 estimateAnnual (vintage released each spring)
DevelopmentU.S. Census Bureau
Building Permits Survey
12 months ending July 2026Monthly, roughly three weeks after the reference month
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.

95687 vs Vacaville

How this ZIP area compares with Vacaville as a whole. Both figures come from the same ACS release, so the comparison is like for like.

95687
Vacaville
Median household income
$109,566
vs
$111,126
Per capita income
$44,140
vs
$46,475
Population density
1,557/sq mi
vs
3,435/sq mi
Median home value
$606,300
vs
$620,900
Median gross rent
$2,355
vs
$2,299
Homeownership rate
66.9%
vs
67.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.0%
vs
28.0%
Poverty rate
8.1%
vs
8.2%
Median age
38.5
vs
38.2

Some demographic statistics use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP delivery geography. See the methodology for how AreaProfile maps between them.