ParkwayCA
A town of 15,397.
Is Parkway a good place to live?
Parkway is a solid, middle-of-the-road choice. It grades C− overall, ranked 479th of 841 in California, with no subject far below average. Its best mark is schools: its schools rank ahead of 46% of California towns. Expect to pay for it: the typical home is worth about $375K, 3.9 years of the Sacramento metro’s $97K median household income. 23% of residents live below the poverty line in Parkway, where California’s towns sit at 10% and U.S. towns at 9.6%. On hazard risk, just 3 of California’s 1,064 towns do better. Parkway is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns.
What makes Parkway stand out
Where Parkway beats most towns.
97% of working residents leave Parkway for work
Where Parkway’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Parkway grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Parkway 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 Parkway. Close and well known come first.
5 mi State parkSutter's Fort
4 mi Stadium & arenaHornet Stadium
11 mi Stadium & arenaARCO Arena
6 mi State parkGovernor's Mansion State Historic Park
7 mi MuseumCalifornia State Railroad Museum500K visitors a year
6 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 Parkway: who provides what
Parkway 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 Parkway.
Parkway carries less natural-hazard risk than nearly all of California (mostly earthquakes) and has property taxes about half the California norm, but it has poverty well above the California rate.
Parkway stands out in California and nationally, with more of its adults who sleep under 7 hours
43% of adults sleep under 7 hours in Parkway. Parkway beats the California average on 1 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 25. 13% of adults binge drink in Parkway.
| Parkway | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 33% | 22% | 19% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 32% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 67% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | Parkway | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4.7% | 6.4% |
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 20.2% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Public schools in Parkway fall behind 54% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Sacramento City Unified school district. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 685 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Compared with most of California and the rest of the country, the FEMA risk score in Parkway is lower
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk lower than 100% of California towns, with expected losses of about $136 per resident a year; that rating is what its A for hazard risk is built on.
The FEMA risk score in Parkway is 16 of 100. Since 1983, 64 flood insurance claims have been paid out in Parkway.
FEMA flood insurance claims · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Most of Parkway’s workers commute out: the town has 0.7 jobs for each of them
Most working residents leave Parkway for work: only 3% work in town. Parkway’s median household income is $64,000. The top destinations are Sacramento (29%), Elk Grove (5%) and Florin (4%).
| Parkway | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median household income | $64,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.5% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 25 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Parkway has mild winters and hot summers
Parkway 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
| Parkway | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.4 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 2.7% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Florin Creek Park | 0.6 mi | 16 |
| 2. Nicholas Park | — | 9 |
| 3. Bowling Green Park | — | 6 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
The median home in Parkway sells for about $418K
The median property tax bill is $2,207, against $5,124 across California, another input to its cost-of-living grade.
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Everything we know about Parkway
Colleges nearby
8 within 15 miles of the center of Parkway
About 6 of every 100 Parkway residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Parkway
Census-designated place in California, United States
Parkway is a Census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States. The 2020 United States census reported Parkway's population was 15,962. Prior to the 2010 United States census, Parkway was grouped with Fruitridge Pocket and Lemon Hill in the Parkway-South Sacramento, California CDP.
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- Area
- 2.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 20 ft
Parkway’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Parkway.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parkway | #479 | C− | C | — | B− | C− |
| Sacramento | #509 | C− | D | D | B− | B |
| Florin | #328 | C+ | C | — | B+ | C |
| Lemon Hill | #513 | C− | C+ | — | B− | D |
Parkway, Florin and Lemon Hill report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Parkway with a neighbor →
Questions about Parkway
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Parkway, CA a good place to live?
Parkway grades C− overall, better than 22% of U.S. towns and #479 of 841 in California. It grades C− for health and B− for schools. Health is its weak spot, with a C−.
Is Parkway, CA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $375,000, 51% 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.