95688Vacaville, California

Area Profile

Income, jobs, climate, physical risk and development data for ZIP code 95688.

54out of 100
Area Score
Bottom 29% of 5,298 published profiles

How we calculate this

How this area ranks
OpportunityTop 49% of 6,210 published ZIP areas55
Growth3240th of 5,428 published ZIP areas44
Housing affordability4702nd of 6,685 published ZIP areas66
ClimateTop 26% of 6,789 published ZIP areas77
Physical resilience5519th of 6,709 published ZIP areas23
Access4670th of 6,791 published ZIP areas86
Economic stabilityTop 39% of 6,742 published ZIP areas65
The quick read

Unemployment is 4.6% and median household income $118,186, putting employment conditions in the middle range of published ZIP profiles.

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

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

At a glance

Population
40,201
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median household income
$118,186
Top 10% nationally
Density
437/sq mi
92.0 sq mi of land
Median age
39.0
2024 ACS 5-Year
City
Vacaville
California
Metro area
Vallejo, CA
Nearest major airport
SMF
30 mi · Sacramento Intl
Median home value
$687,100
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.

34% of adults hold a four-year degree, higher than 72% of measured US ZIP areas.

Household income is higher than at least 90% of measured US ZIP areas.

MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Median household income ±$8,938$118,186Top 10%2024 ACS 5-Year
Per capita income ±$3,004$52,416Top 17%2024 ACS 5-Year
Poverty rate8.0%Bottom 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Average commute30.5 minTop 36%2024 ACS 5-Year
Bachelor's degree or higher34.2%Top 28%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 participation62.9%Top 41%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
2021202220232024118k107k
Each point is a separate five-year estimate, most recently $118,186 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 22.1 students for every full-time teacher, more than in most measured places.

Public schools
11
2024-25 school year
Students per teacher
22.1
across all schools here
Math proficiency
Reading proficiency
SchoolDistrictStudentsPer teacherMathReading
Vacaville HighVacaville Unified2,04421.3
Willis Jepson MiddleVacaville Unified95421.2
Edwin Markham ElementaryVacaville Unified88223.8
Browns Valley ElementaryVacaville Unified80622.4
Kairos Public · charterKairos Public District78623.8
Alamo ElementaryVacaville Unified71424.6
Buckingham Collegiate Charter Academy · charterVacaville Unified47419.8
Orchard ElementaryVacaville Unified43721.9
Hemlock ElementaryVacaville Unified41321.7
Shereene Wilkerson Academy of ExcellenceVacaville Unified66.0
Shelley Dally Early Learning VillageVacaville Unified0

46.2% 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 $2,090 takes 21% of median household income, below the 30% threshold at which a household is considered cost-burdened.

A median home costs 5.8 times median household income here, well above the historic benchmark, at a level conventionally described as seriously unaffordable.

Rent as a share of income
21.2%
Below the 30% cost-burdened threshold
Home price to income
5.8×
median home value ÷ median income
Median gross rent
$2,090
2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value
$687,100
2024 ACS 5-Year
MetricValueCompared with peersSource period
Home price to income5.81Top 11%2024 ACS 5-Year
Homeownership rate70.7%Bottom 31%2024 ACS 5-Year
Housing units ±65514,915Top 8%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median gross rent ±$187$2,090Top 7%2024 ACS 5-Year
Median home value ±$19,067$687,100Top 6%2024 ACS 5-Year
Rent as a share of income21.2%Top 29%2024 ACS 5-Year
Vacancy rate5.1%Bottom 23%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.

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, 5.0 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. 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 95688 rather than 95688 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 30 miles away.

AirportCodeDistanceLongest runway
Sacramento IntlSMF30 mi8,605 ft
Mc Clellan AirfieldMCC38 mi10,599 ft
Oakland San Francisco BayOAK49 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
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.

95688 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.

95688
Vacaville
Median household income
$118,186
vs
$111,126
Per capita income
$52,416
vs
$46,475
Population density
437/sq mi
vs
3,435/sq mi
Median home value
$687,100
vs
$620,900
Median gross rent
$2,090
vs
$2,299
Homeownership rate
70.7%
vs
67.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher
34.2%
vs
28.0%
Poverty rate
8.0%
vs
8.2%
Median age
39.0
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.