Lemon HillCA
A town of 15,312.
Is Lemon Hill a good place to live?
Lemon Hill is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, 513th among California's 841 graded towns, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its public schools beat 46% of California towns on state tests and graduation. Its lowest everyday mark is in health: CDC estimates put its residents' health behind 94% of the country. A typical home there costs about $350K, 3.6 years of the Sacramento metro’s $97K median household income. 32% of residents live below the poverty line in Lemon Hill, against 10% in California’s towns and 9.6% across U.S. towns. Only 2 of California’s 1,064 towns score higher on hazard risk.
What makes Lemon Hill stand out
Where Lemon Hill beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
98% of working residents leave Lemon Hill for work
Where Lemon Hill’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Lemon Hill grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Lemon Hill is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
Sutter's Fort and 38 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Lemon Hill. Close and well known come first.
4 mi State parkSutter's Fort
3 mi Stadium & arenaHornet Stadium
10 mi Stadium & arenaARCO Arena
5 mi State parkGovernor's Mansion State Historic Park
5 mi MuseumCalifornia State Railroad Museum500K visitors a year
5 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 Lemon Hill: who provides what
Lemon Hill 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 Lemon Hill.
Lemon Hill 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.
Compared with most of California and the rest of the country, more of Lemon Hill’s adults sleep under 7 hours
44% of Lemon Hill adults sleep under 7 hours. Lemon Hill beats the California average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 27. 36% of Lemon Hill adults get no exercise outside work.
| Lemon Hill | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 38% | 22% | 19% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 22% | 17% | 17% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 14% | 14% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 36% | 33% |
| What stands out | Lemon Hill | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.3% | 6.4% |
| Fewer binge drinkers | 12.4% | 15.3% |
| More adults facing a utility shut-off | 17.4% | 7.3% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Lemon Hill’s public schools trail 54% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Sacramento City Unified school district. Two of its 4 schools are below, each with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethel I. Baker ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 608 | – |
| Calvary Christian School PrivateLargest high schoolGrades PK–12 | Grades PK–12 | 90 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Lemon Hill 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 $70 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
Lemon Hill’s FEMA risk score is 14 of 100. One flood insurance claim has been paid in Lemon Hill since 2017.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
About one in three of Lemon Hill’s working residents commute to Sacramento
Lemon Hill has 1,181 jobs for its 5,250 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
Most working residents leave Lemon Hill for work: only 2% work in town. The median household income in Lemon Hill is $49,000. Since 2013, Lemon Hill has lost 205 jobs, to 1,181 in 2023.
| Lemon Hill | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $49,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.9% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Work from home | 9.8% | 14% | 11% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Lemon Hill has mild winters and hot summers
Lemon Hill 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
| Lemon Hill | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 3% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Fruitridge Community Park | 0.4 mi | 9 |
| 2. Rainbow Mini Park | — | 2 |
| 3. Fountain Plaza Park | — | 1 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
A home in Lemon Hill sells for about $365K at the median
The median property tax bill is $2,162, against $5,124 across California, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
40% of households own their home in Lemon Hill.
| Lemon Hill | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 40% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,421 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 Lemon Hill
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Lemon Hill
About 7 of every 100 Lemon Hill residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About Lemon Hill
Census-designated place in California, United States
Lemon Hill is a census-designated place in an unincorporated area of Sacramento County, California, United States, south of the city of Sacramento. Lemon Hill sits at an elevation of 30 feet (9.1 m). The 2020 United States census reported Lemon Hill's population as 14,496. Prior to the 2010 United States census, Lemon Hill was grouped with Parkway and Fruitridge Pocket in the Parkway-South Sacramento, California CDP.
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- Area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Elevation
- 30 ft
Lemon Hill’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Lemon Hill.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemon Hill | #513 | C− | C+ | — | B− | D |
| Sacramento | #509 | C− | D | D | B− | B |
| Parkway | #479 | C− | C | — | B− | C− |
Lemon Hill and Parkway report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Lemon Hill with a neighbor →
Questions about Lemon Hill
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Lemon Hill, CA a good place to live?
Lemon Hill grades C− overall, better than 18% of U.S. towns and #513 of 841 in California. It grades D for health and B− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Lemon Hill, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $350,000, 54% 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+.