Rancho CalaverasCA
A town of 7,131.
Is Rancho Calaveras a good place to live?
Rancho Calaveras grades D− overall, 800th of 841 graded towns in California. Rancho Calaveras’ average trip to work is 51 minutes, above both California’s towns (28 minutes) and U.S. towns (25 minutes). The typical home is worth about $444K, 5.6 years of the county’s $79K median household income. On the outdoors, just 5 of California’s 1,064 towns do worse.
98% of working residents leave Rancho Calaveras for work
Where Rancho Calaveras’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Rancho Calaveras grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Rancho Calaveras is from typical.
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Moving to Rancho Calaveras: who provides what
Rancho Calaveras is unincorporated, so Calaveras 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 Rancho Calaveras.
Rancho Calaveras has hotter summers than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Stockton and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
Wildfire leads a very high hazard risk in Rancho Calaveras
Expected storm and flood damage is higher than in 89% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Rancho Calaveras’ schools rank behind 63% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Calaveras Unified school district. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Lind ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–7 | Grades K–7 | 475 | D |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Most working residents commute out of Rancho Calaveras
Rancho Calaveras has 293 jobs for its 3,480 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 51.2 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
Most working residents leave Rancho Calaveras for work: only 2% work in town. 14% of Rancho Calaveras residents live below the poverty line. The top destinations are Stockton (9%), San Andreas (6%) and Sacramento (4%).
| Rancho Calaveras | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 14% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $89,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
On CDC estimates, Rancho Calaveras is less healthy than 73% of U.S. towns
Against the 10,102 U.S. towns with household incomes like Rancho Calaveras’s, it is less healthy than 88%, so it trails even them.
Rancho Calaveras beats the California average on 2 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 12. 17% of adults report frequent physical distress in Rancho Calaveras.
| Rancho Calaveras | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 14% | 14% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 17% | 11% | 14% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 19% | 17% | 17% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Rancho Calaveras | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer uninsured adults | 8.3% | 10.6% |
| More adults treating high blood pressure | 75.2% | 71.3% |
| More adults with COPD | 9% | 5.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Rancho Calaveras has mild winters and hot summers
July afternoons average 95°, hotter than in 96% of U.S. towns; January nights average 39.1°.
Rancho Calaveras has mild winters and hot summers, with very little rain. The July high in Rancho Calaveras is 95°F. Snow is almost unheard of.
| Rancho Calaveras | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 95°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 39°F | 41°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Everything we know about Rancho Calaveras
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Rancho Calaveras; the nearest are
About 4 of every 100 Rancho Calaveras residents are enrolled in college, against 8 across California.
About Rancho Calaveras
Place in California, United States
Rancho Calaveras is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California, United States. The population was 5,590 at the 2020 census, up from 5,325 at the 2010 census.
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- Area
- 8.4 sq mi
- Elevation
- 528 ft
- Area code
- 209
Questions about Rancho Calaveras
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Rancho Calaveras, CA a good place to live?
Rancho Calaveras grades D− overall, in the bottom 2% of U.S. towns and #800 of 841 in California. It grades C for health and C+ for schools. Cost of living is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Rancho Calaveras, 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−.