Green ValleyCA
A town of 1,364 in California.
Is Green Valley a good place to live?
The best of Green Valley’s subject grades are an A− for health and an A+ for the outdoors; the weakest is a D− for cost of living. Green Valley’s age of the median resident is 59 years, against 39 years in California’s towns and 40.5 years across U.S. towns. On walkability, just 70 of California’s 1,063 towns do worse. FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 89% of U.S. communities, with inland flooding at the top. 42% of the land in Green Valley is conserved, above both California’s towns (4.3%) and U.S. towns (4.3%). On history, just 65 of California’s 1,063 towns do worse. The biggest place to walk is Rockville Hills Regional Park, 228 acres with 8.8 miles of trail. Green Valley has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Green Valley stand out
Where Green Valley beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
1,364 people, and everyone knows the way
In a town this size, neighbors are the best guide. Ask them anything.
How Green Valley grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Green Valley is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary and 169 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Green Valley. Close and well known come first.
Big draw33 mi MuseumAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Big draw35 mi MuseumUSS Hornet
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaChase Center
Big draw35 mi LandmarkLombard Street
10 mi Theme parkSix Flags Discovery Kingdom
Big draw36 mi Stadium & arenaOracle ParkPhoto credits
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary: druchoy, CC BY-SA 2.0 · USS Hornet: kitmasterbloke, CC BY 2.0 · Chase Center: Gregory Varnum, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Lombard Street: The original uploader was Y6y6y6 at English Wikipedia., Public domain · Six Flags Discovery Kingdom: Tinned Elk, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oracle Park: User Coasttocoast on en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Moving to Green Valley: who provides what
Green Valley is unincorporated, so Solano 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 Green Valley.
In Green Valley, nearly a third of the land is conserved
Green Valley’s trail density is 3.5 miles per square mile. Across 2 parks and preserves: 29 miles of trail.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park | 12.4 mi | 1,243 |
| 2. Rockville Hills Regional Park | 8.8 mi | 228 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Residents of Green Valley are healthier than 84% of U.S. towns
The share of adults in Green Valley who have obesity: 28%. The town does better than the California average on 18 of 32 CDC measures and worse on 6. 29% of adults in Green Valley sleep under 7 hours; 31% feel lonely.
| Green Valley | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 17% | 17% |
| Sleep under 7 hours (CDC PLACES) | 29% | 35% | 36% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 31% | 36% | 33% |
| Binge drink (CDC PLACES) | 13% | 16% | 16% |
| What stands out | Green Valley | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 4.3% | 10.6% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 7.4% | 17.9% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 13.3% | 6.4% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Green Valley faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
66% of Green Valley’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by earthquakes at 28%.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Green Valley’s workers head elsewhere: there are 0.3 jobs for each of them
Half commute less than 24 miles. Employers in Green Valley added 77 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 190. The average commute here is 28 minutes. The top destinations are Fairfield (18%), San Francisco (5%) and Vallejo (4%).
| Green Valley | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 28 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 9.2% | 10% | 9.6% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
The climate in Green Valley brings mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons reach 88°, January nights drop to 39° and snow is almost unheard of.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Green Valley
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Green Valley
About 3 of every 100 Green Valley residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
100% of working residents leave Green Valley for work
Where Green Valley’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Green Valley
Place in California, United States
Green Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Solano County, California, United States. It sits in the northeastern corner of the San Francisco Bay Area and is located approximately 45 miles (72 km) from Sacramento, approximately 38 miles (61 km) from San Francisco, approximately 32 miles (51 km) from Oakland, less than 15 miles (24 km) from Napa Valley, and less than 15 miles (24 km) from both the Carquinez Bridge and the Benicia Bridge. The use of "Green Valley" as a place name predates the CDP designation by over a century; a Green Valley Township appears on an 1890 map of Solano County. The population was 1,654 at the 2020 census.
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- Area
- 8.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 115 ft
Questions about Green Valley
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Green Valley, CA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.