Best Places95668, CA Best Neighborhoods

2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026

Every neighborhood inside ZIP code 95668, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.

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95668 ranks 19,123rd of 33,110 U.S. zip codes on the BestNeighborhood index. Tree cover pulls hardest against it, while it scores best on high incomes.

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The best neighborhoods in 95668

Map of the best neighborhoods in the 95668 area, with better matches in green and worse matches in red
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BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.

95668's strengths and weaknesses

Each measure against the national median. Bars to the right beat the median; bars to the left fall short. Percentiles compare 95668 with other zip codes.

Where 95668 ranks high

  • Household income$108,354 median, better than 85% of zip codes
  • Big-city accessBetter than 84% of zip codes
  • Nice weatherabout 136 pleasant days a year, better than 84% of zip codes
  • Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 75% of zip codes
  • Health outlookBetter than 74% of zip codes

Where 95668 ranks low

  • Tree shadeBetter than only 2% of zip codes
  • WalkabilityBetter than only 5% of zip codes
  • Internet speedBetter than only 7% of zip codes
  • Low income/sales/gas taxBetter than only 10% of zip codes
  • QuietBetter than only 14% of zip codes

What it costs to buy a home in 95668

A household needs to earn about $163,000 a year to comfortably buy the median 95668 home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That runs well above the area's median income of $108,354, so buying stretches a typical household.

Income to buy the median home
$163,000
a year, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate
Estimated monthly payment
$3,805
principal, interest, tax, and insurance on a $643,003 home
Median rent
$1,707
a month, across all home sizes

Where the monthly payment goes

Principal & interest$3,278
Property tax$312
Homeowners insurance$214

Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses 95668's effective rate of 0.58%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.

Renting versus buying

At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.

Cumulative cost of renting versus owning the median home, first 10 years. Illustrative estimate.

Who lives in 95668

95668 runs older than the country.

Median age
48
older than the U.S. median of 41
Residents 65 and older
22%
versus 18% nationally
Average household
2.6
near the U.S. average of 2.6

Residents by age

Under 1819%
18 to 3418%
35 to 4920%
50 to 6421%
65 and older22%

Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for 95668.


Who works in 95668, and how

Work in 95668 centers on retail trade and health care & social. Unemployment sits above the national rate, and jobs are growing.

Work from home
17%
above the national average
Unemployment
7.2%
above the national average
Job growth
+3.5%
/y 2019-2023, faster than the national pace

Largest industries

Retail trade16%
Health care & social14%
Professional & technical10%
Agriculture & forestry9%
Education6%

How people get to work

  • Drive or carpool 76%
  • Work from home 17%
  • Transit, walk, or bike 7%

Life in 95668

The map and measures below break down dining, culture, and green space by neighborhood across 95668.


What the weather is like in 95668, month by month

95668 sees roughly 136 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 97 degrees. January highs sit near 59, with lows near 39. The comfortable stretch runs April through June, September, and October.

Average daily high, mean, and low in degrees Fahrenheit, NOAA station data 2016 to 2025.
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MonthAvg highAvgAvg low
January59°49°39°
April76°61°46°
July97°77°60°
October82°65°48°

Flying in and out of 95668

Sacramento International sits about 10 miles away. It is a medium hub and boarded 6.8 million passengers in 2025, with 85 nonstop destinations.

Nearest airport
SMF
Sacramento International, about 10 miles
Airport size
Medium hub
36th-busiest in the US, 85 nonstop destinations
Average drive
15 min
from the area, with no traffic

The best schools in and around 95668

Schools across 95668 average a C+, better than 44% of zip codes.

Top elementary schools

Top high schools

Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every 95668 school and its grade on SchoolGrade.


95668 measure by measure

Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare 95668 against the other 33,109 zip codes.


Common questions about living in 95668

Is 95668 a good place to live?

Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, 95668 ranks 19,123rd of 33,110 zip codes. It scores highest on high incomes, big-city access, and the weather, and lowest on tree cover and walkability. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.

Is 95668 expensive to live in?

The median home is worth $643,003. The overall cost of living runs about 11% above the national average. Set against a $108,354 median income, cost of living beats 75% of zip codes.

Is 95668 safe?

95668 is safer than 29% of zip codes. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $421 per resident a year.


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Sources and methodology

Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to 95668. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in 95668 represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.

95668 detail on BestNeighborhood maps:

  1. Walk Grade for 95668: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
  2. Noise in 95668: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
  3. Conservative vs liberal map of 95668: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
  4. Mobile and cell coverage in 95668: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.

95668 detail on related sites:

  1. CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
  2. ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
  3. CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.

Federal and public data:

  1. U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
  2. NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
  3. FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
  4. Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
  5. FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
  6. U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
  7. FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
  8. CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
  9. National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
  10. FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
  11. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
  12. Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.