Rancho Cordova, CA real estate and demographic information

About Rancho Cordova

Rancho Cordova is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 65,606 people and 20 constituent neighborhoods, Rancho Cordova is the 125th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rancho Cordova is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rancho Cordova is a city of sales and office workers, service providers and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rancho Cordova who work in office and administrative support (17.91%), sales jobs (10.05%) and management occupations (9.04%).

Also of interest is that Rancho Cordova has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Although the majority of commuting trips in the city are by private automobile, Rancho Cordova is somewhat unusual for a city of its size for having a substantial number of people who use public transportation. For a lot of people, the bus helps to get to and from their jobs every morning, which benefits everyone in the Rancho Cordova area by reducing both traffic and air pollution.

Rancho Cordova Information and Demographics

The citizens of Rancho Cordova are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.21% of adults in Rancho Cordova having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rancho Cordova in 2010 was $24,373, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,492 for a family of four. However, Rancho Cordova contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rancho Cordova is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rancho Cordova home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rancho Cordova residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Rancho Cordova also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.67% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rancho Cordova include German, Irish, English, Ukrainian and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Rancho Cordova's cultural character, accounting for 25.67% of the city’s population.

The languages spoken by people in Rancho Cordova are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Rancho Cordova is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Russian, Slavic languages and Vietnamese.