Cedar RidgeCA
A town of 1,671.
Is Cedar Ridge a good place to live?
Cedar Ridge’s weakest subject grade is a D− for walkability. Only 3 of California’s 1,063 towns score lower on walkability. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 98% of U.S. communities, with wildfire at the top. 54% of the land in Cedar Ridge is conserved, against 4.3% in California’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Cedar Ridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
99% of working residents leave Cedar Ridge for work
Where Cedar Ridge’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Cedar Ridge grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Cedar Ridge is from typical.
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Moving to Cedar Ridge: who provides what
Cedar Ridge is unincorporated, so Tuolumne 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.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Cedar Ridge.
Conserved land covers nearly a third of Cedar Ridge
3.7 miles of trail in 0 parks and preserves. Cedar Ridge’s trail density is 0.5 miles per square mile, where California’s towns sit at 1.0 and U.S. towns at 0.4.
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Cedar Ridge’s schools rank ahead of 54% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Belleview Elementary school district. One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belleview ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–8 | Grades K–8 | 148 | C− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Wildfire leads a very high hazard risk in Cedar Ridge
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A smaller share of working residents in Cedar Ridge work locally than in the typical California or U.S. town
0.7% of working residents work locally in Cedar Ridge. The top destinations are Sonora (7%), San Jose (4%) and Fresno (3%). Cedar Ridge’s average trip to work is 33 minutes.
| Cedar Ridge | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 33 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Work from home | 10% | 14% | 11% |
| Below the poverty line | 7.9% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Cedar Ridge has mild winters and hot summers
Cedar Ridge has mild winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 33° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Residents of Cedar Ridge are healthier than 58% of U.S. towns
Cedar Ridge beats the California average on 11 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 9. 31% of Cedar Ridge adults feel lonely.
| Cedar Ridge | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 33% |
| High blood pressure (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 31% | 35% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 77% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | Cedar Ridge | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 6.1% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing housing insecurity | 9.9% | 14.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11.3% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Homes in Cedar Ridge sell for about $275K
The median rent in Cedar Ridge is $1,615 a month.
| Cedar Ridge | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 86% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,615 a month | $1,896 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Yosemite National Park and 7 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Cedar Ridge. Close and well known come first.
Big draw22 mi National ParkYosemite National Park4.3M visitors a year
28 mi LakeHetch Hetchy
14 mi State parkCalaveras Big Trees State Park
20 mi National forestStanislaus National Forest
11 mi MuseumRailtown 1897 State Historic Park
20 mi Ski areaDodge Ridge Ski Area61 runs · 1,576 ft verticalPhoto credits
Yosemite National Park: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Hetch Hetchy: Vulpinus2, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Calaveras Big Trees State Park: John J. O'Brien (talk · contribs), Public domain · Stanislaus National Forest: U.S. National Park Service, Public domain · Railtown 1897 State Historic Park: Ed Bierman, CC BY 2.0 · Dodge Ridge Ski Area: IanGad, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Everything we know about Cedar Ridge
Colleges nearby
1 within 15 miles of the center of Cedar Ridge
About 2 of every 100 Cedar Ridge residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Cedar Ridge
Census-designated place in California, United States
Cedar Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tuolumne County, California, United States. Cedar Ridge sits at an elevation of 3,760 feet (1,150 m). The 2020 United States census reported Cedar Ridge's population as 1,235. Cedar Ridge was created a CDP for the 2010 census, previously it was part of the Phoenix Lake-Cedar Ridge CDP.
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- Area
- 7.8 sq mi
- Elevation
- 3,760 ft
Cedar Ridge’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Cedar Ridge.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Ridge | — | — | D | — | B− | B |
| Mono Vista | #570 | D | D | — | B− | B |
Cedar Ridge has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Cedar Ridge and Mono Vista report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Cedar Ridge with a neighbor →
Questions about Cedar Ridge
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Cedar Ridge, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $407,000, 47% 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.