City safety & data profile

SacramentoCA

Sacramento, CA is a 525K-resident city in Sacramento County with a median household income of $87,321.

Sacramento County, California. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Sacramento, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Sacramento has a population larger than 99% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $506,300, and 10 hospitals serving the surrounding area.

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Data updated 2026-09-04

525K
Population (place): Top 1%
By size: $87,321
Median income (place): $506,300
Median home (place): 13.9%
Poverty rate (place)

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The read on Sacramento

Sacramento posts a median household income higher than 58% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 1 recent safety alert is on record and 10 hospitals serve the Sacramento area.

Top 42%
by median income, US cities: 1
safety alert on record: 10
hospitals in & near Sacramento

Where Sacramento income ranks nationally

Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)

$87,321 Top 42% higher than 58% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles

Each bar is a $20K-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year

Los Angeles

3,820,914
San Diego

1,404,452
San Jose

997,368
San Francisco

827,526
Fresno

542,107
Sacramento

524,943
Long Beach

474,140
Oakland

419,267
Bakersfield

373,640
Anaheim

350,742

What this shows Los Angeles is the largest CA city on this list; Alamo leads median income.

Alamo

$250,001
Hillsborough

$250,001
Los Altos

$250,001
Orinda

$250,001
Piedmont

$250,001
Saratoga

$250,001
Coto De Caza

$243,816
Tamalpais-Ho…

$243,227
Palos Verdes…

$242,014
San Carlos

$237,470

What this shows Alamo posts the highest place-level median income in CA; Los Angeles is largest by headcount.

The quick read

Reading Sacramento, CA beyond the headline numbers

Sacramento sits inside Sacramento County, California, at roughly 38.58°N, -121.49°W. Population 524,943, $87,321 median household income. Median home value $506,300, median rent $1,779. Poverty rate 13.9%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.

10 hospitals in/around Sacramento, 3.3/5 avg rating, 6 with an ER.

Poverty in Sacramento, CA stands at 13.9%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.

The median home in Sacramento costs around 5.8 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.

19.7% of Sacramento workers report working from home, the highest quarter of reporting cities. Where that share runs this high, local income increasingly reflects employers located somewhere else.

Among the CDC measures on this page, binge drinking departs furthest from its peer median: 14.3% in Sacramento, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.

Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Sacramento from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.

Population (place)

524,943

Sacramento · Census Place

Median Income (place)

$87,321

Near average

Median Home Value (place)

$506,300

+22% vs avg

Median Age (place)

years · ACS place

10-Year Trends 2013–2024

County-level trend (Sacramento County): Sacramento's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.

20132024

Population

1.6M+11%

Median Income

$92,175+67%

Median Home Value

$534,200+128%

Poverty Rate

12.5%-29%

Unemployment

6.7%-51%

Economics

Economics indicators for Sacramento, CA
Indicator	Value
Median Rent	$1,779/mo
Poverty Rate	13.9% +12% vs avg
Unemployment	6.5%
Bachelor's Degree+	37.1%
Work From Home	19.7%
Public Transit	1.8%

Population

White 34%

African American 12.5%

Asian 20.4%

Two or More Ethnicities 3.7%

Health Profile 15 measures

Health Indicators

Short Sleep Duration

39%

Obesity

30%

High Blood Pressure

29.7%

Physical Inactivity

22.4%

Frequent Mental Distress

17.9%

Binge Drinking

14.3%

Frequent Physical Distress

13.5%

Current Smoking

11.9%

Diabetes

11.2%

Current Asthma

10.2%

Preventive Care

Dental Visit 59.8%

Annual Checkup 69.4%

Other Measures

Lack of Health Insurance

10%

Coronary Heart Disease

5.3%

Stroke

3.1%

Hospitals 10 total

Rating Distribution

★★★★★

★★★★

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★

Average Rating

3.3/5

Total Hospitals

With ER

SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER, SACRAMENTO