Fruitridge PocketCA
A town of 6,095.
Is Fruitridge Pocket a good place to live?
Fruitridge Pocket is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, 482nd of 841 graded towns in California, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its schools outperform 46% of the state's. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $362K, 3.7 years of the Sacramento metro’s $97K median household income. 31% of residents live below the poverty line in Fruitridge Pocket, against 10% in California’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. No town in California scores higher than Fruitridge Pocket on hazard risk. Fruitridge Pocket is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 94% of U.S. towns.
What makes Fruitridge Pocket stand out
Where Fruitridge Pocket beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Fruitridge Pocket for work
Where Fruitridge Pocket’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Fruitridge Pocket grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Fruitridge Pocket is from typical.
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Sutter's Fort and 35 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fruitridge Pocket. Close and well known come first.
3 mi State parkSutter's Fort
2 mi Stadium & arenaHornet Stadium
9 mi Stadium & arenaARCO Arena
4 mi State parkGovernor's Mansion State Historic Park
4 mi MuseumCalifornia State Railroad Museum500K visitors a year
4 mi State parkLeland Stanford Mansion State Historic ParkPhoto credits
Sutter's Fort: Ian Howard, CC BY 2.5 · Hornet Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · ARCO Arena: CLopez63, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Governor's Mansion State Historic Park: Mark James Miller, CC BY 3.0 · California State Railroad Museum: The original uploader was Swampyank at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park: M.Mierzwa. MCalamari at en.wikipedia, Public domain
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Moving to Fruitridge Pocket: who provides what
Fruitridge Pocket is unincorporated, so Sacramento 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 Fruitridge Pocket.
Fruitridge Pocket carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of California (mostly earthquakes) and sends most of its workers to Sacramento and beyond, but it has poverty well above the California rate.
Fruitridge Pocket stands out in California and nationally, with the FEMA risk score lower than most
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 100% of California towns, with expected losses of about $58 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Fruitridge Pocket’s FEMA risk score is 7 of 100. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Fruitridge Pocket since 2019.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
A larger share of adults in Fruitridge Pocket sleep under 7 hours than in the typical California or U.S. town
43% of Fruitridge Pocket adults sleep under 7 hours. Fruitridge Pocket beats the California average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 26. 13% of Fruitridge Pocket adults binge drink.
| Fruitridge Pocket | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 34% | 22% | 19% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | Fruitridge Pocket | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.6% | 6.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 23.2% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
About one in three of Fruitridge Pocket’s working residents commute to Sacramento
Fruitridge Pocket has 260 jobs for its 2,245 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 22.5 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Most working residents leave Fruitridge Pocket for work: only 1% work in town. Jobs based in Fruitridge Pocket grew to 260 in 2023, 90 more than in 2013. The median household income in Fruitridge Pocket is $63,000.
| Fruitridge Pocket | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $63,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Average trip to work | 23 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Work from home | 17% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 0.9% | 6.6% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
In Fruitridge Pocket, expect mild winters and hot summers
Fruitridge Pocket has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. July afternoons reach 94°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Fruitridge Pocket has set aside 0.2% of its land for conservation
0.0 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Jack Davis Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Fruitridge Pocket sells for about $384K
70.5% of renter households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, against 55.3% across California. The median property tax bill is $2,113, against $5,124 across California, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
57% of households own their home in Fruitridge Pocket.
| Fruitridge Pocket | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 57% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,473 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Fruitridge Pocket
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Fruitridge Pocket
About 6 of every 100 Fruitridge Pocket residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Fruitridge Pocket
Census-designated place in California, United States
Fruitridge Pocket is a census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States. Fruitridge Pocket sits at an elevation of 33 feet (10 m). The 2020 United States census reported Fruitridge Pocket's population as 6,102. Prior to the 2010 United States census, Fruitridge Pocket was grouped with Parkway and Lemon Hill in the Parkway-South Sacramento, California CDP.
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- Area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 33 ft
Fruitridge Pocket’s neighbors
One town shares a border with Fruitridge Pocket.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruitridge Pocket | #482 | C− | C | — | B− | D |
| Sacramento | #509 | C− | D | D | B− | B |
Fruitridge Pocket reports no FBI crime data of its own. Compare Fruitridge Pocket with a neighbor →
Questions about Fruitridge Pocket
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fruitridge Pocket, CA a good place to live?
Fruitridge Pocket grades C− overall, better than 21% of U.S. towns and #482 of 841 in California. It grades D for health and B− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Fruitridge Pocket, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $362,000, 52% 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 C.