Placer Valley Region Fact Sheet

• Encompasses 1,506 square miles including 82 square miles of water
• Serves more than 320,000 residents
• Located 80 miles northeast of San Francisco
• Six incorporated cities: Auburn, Colfax, Lincoln, Loomis, Rocklin and Roseville
• Part of the six-county Sacramento Region:
 includes El Dorado, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba Counties

• Variety of elevations and terrain Climbs from 0 to 9,000 feet in 90 miles Valley, Foothills and High Sierras Seismically stable.
• Sierra Nevada Mountains Largest concentration of world class ski resorts in the Western United States Home to the 1960 Winter Olympics
• Folsom Lake and Auburn State Recreation Areas FLSRA has the highest number of annual visitors of any California state park.

• Over a ten year time span, Placer County employment increased by about 59,000 jobs to almost 141,000 total jobs in 2006 (about 15% of all jobs in the Sacramento Region).
• Job growth from 1996 to 2006 exceeded 71%
• More than twice as the Sacramento Region
• 10 times higher than the Bay Area
• Over 4 times higher than California's overall rate
• 2007 annual unemployment rate was 4.9%
• Lower than Sacramento Region (6.1%), California (6.1%)
• Placer County has the lowest percentage of persons below the poverty level in the State.

• One of top three fastest growing counties in California for more than 10 years
• Ninth among California Counties in population percent growth from 01/06 to 01/07.
• 41st in the U.S. Census Bureau's list of the "100 Fastest Growing U.S. counties with 10,000 or more Population in 2006"
• Total population reached nearly 320,000, about 14% of the Sacramento Region, as of January 2007.
• Median home price of $402,000 as of 9/07
• Below overall basis for California and the Bay Area
• Above other counties in the Sacramento Region