Is Auburn Lake Trails a good place to live?
The weak point is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $560K, 5.8 years of the Sacramento metro’s $97K median household income. It lags on hazard risk as well: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 90% of U.S. communities, with wildfire at the top. Its strongest is health: residents are healthier than four fifths of U.S. towns on CDC estimates. Incomes are another plus (B+): the median household earns $134K. All told, that adds up to a C overall and a rank of 400th of 841 in California. Nationally, it does better than 29% of U.S. towns. Walkability is weaker too (D). Most errands need a car: it is less walkable than 91% of U.S. towns.
Figures: health, CDC PLACES · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · home values, Zillow · FEMA National Risk Index.
How Auburn Lake Trails grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Auburn Lake Trails is from typical.
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What makes Auburn Lake Trails stand out
Where Auburn Lake Trails beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
96% of working residents leave Auburn Lake Trails for work
Where Auburn Lake Trails’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Auburn Lake Trails.
Auburn Lake Trails sends most of its workers to Sacramento and beyond and owes part of its health edge to its incomes.
Auburn Lake Trails has a very high natural-hazard risk, chiefly from wildfire
FEMA puts 57% of Auburn Lake Trails’s expected hazard losses down to wildfires, and 26% to avalanches.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Auburn Lake Trails’ grade for health is an A−
Against the 4,153 U.S. towns with household incomes like Auburn Lake Trails’s, it is less healthy than 60%: its national edge comes with its incomes.
28% of adults have obesity in Auburn Lake Trails, where California’s towns sit at 29% and U.S. towns at 35%. In Auburn Lake Trails, 31% of adults feel lonely. CDC measures, 32 in all: Auburn Lake Trails beats California on 14 and trails on 5. Two figures for adults here: 31% sleep under 7 hours, 19% get no exercise outside work.
| Auburn Lake Trails | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 33% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 35% | 36% |
| Get no exercise (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 24% | 25% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 8.7% | 16% | 14% |
| What stands out | Auburn Lake Trails | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.3% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.7% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.7% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Fewer young adults than California overall
Auburn Lake Trails’ median age stands at 50.9 years, against 39 years in California’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns. Adults 18 to 34 are nearly one in ten residents (24% statewide); people 65 and older are 26% of residents (16% statewide). Also worth knowing: 37% of adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more here.
| Auburn Lake Trails | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median age | 50.9 years | 39 years | 40.5 years |
| Aged 65 or older | 26% | 16% | 18% |
| Bachelor’s degree or more, 25+ | 37% | 29% | 29% |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
53% women, 47% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±5.4 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Auburn Lake Trails | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 10% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.3% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 3.6% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 5.4% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 16.6% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 12.1% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 17.8% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 14.3% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 12% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 1% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 24.8% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 20.3% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 16.9% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 23.4% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 13.6% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 3,300, single groups can be off by several points
7.9% of Auburn Lake Trails is conserved land
13 miles of trail. The concentration of trails for Auburn Lake Trails comes to 1.0 miles per square mile.
| Auburn Lake Trails | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conserved land | 7.9% | 4.2% | 4.3% |
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.0 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Most working residents commute out of Auburn Lake Trails
Auburn Lake Trails has 267 jobs for its 1,267 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 40.8 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Only 4% of working residents stay in Auburn Lake Trails for work; the rest commute out. Between 2013 and 2023, jobs locally rose by 143, to 267. Auburn Lake Trails’ average commute comes in at 41 minutes. Half of commuters travel less than 23 miles.
| Auburn Lake Trails | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 41 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $134,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 6.9% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 4.2% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Four seasons and hot summers in Auburn Lake Trails
July afternoons reach 93° and January nights drop to 38°.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
More of Auburn Lake Trails’ households are owner-occupiers than in the typical California or U.S. town
A home in Auburn Lake Trails typically sold within 36 days of listing. The median sale price was $496,000 in September 2026. 27% of the homes sold in Auburn Lake Trails went for more than their asking price.
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Auburn Lake Trails
ARCO Arena and 30 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Auburn Lake Trails. Close and well known come first.
33 mi Stadium & arenaARCO Arena
34 mi State parkSutter's Fort
35 mi State parkGovernor's Mansion State Historic Park
22 mi State parkEmpire Mine State Historic Park
33 mi Stadium & arenaHornet Stadium
35 mi MuseumCalifornia State Railroad Museum500K visitors a yearPhoto credits
ARCO Arena: CLopez63, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Sutter's Fort: Ian Howard, CC BY 2.5 · Governor's Mansion State Historic Park: Mark James Miller, CC BY 3.0 · Empire Mine State Historic Park: Beej71, CC BY 2.5 · Hornet Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · California State Railroad Museum: The original uploader was Swampyank at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Auburn Lake Trails: who provides what
Auburn Lake Trails is unincorporated, so El Dorado County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Auburn Lake Trails
About 3 of every 100 Auburn Lake Trails residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Auburn Lake Trails
Census-designated place in California, United States
Auburn Lake Trails is a census-designated place in El Dorado County, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1916 feet (584 m). It is a gated community with 23 miles (37 km) of horse trails. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,388.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 13 sq mi
- Elevation
- 1,916 ft
- Area code
- 530
Questions about Auburn Lake Trails
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Auburn Lake Trails, CA a good place to live?
Auburn Lake Trails grades C overall, better than 29% of U.S. towns and #400 of 841 in California. It grades A− for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Auburn Lake Trails, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $560,000, 26% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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