{"id":790,"date":"2023-01-20T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T09:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=790"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:49:25","slug":"yolo-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/yolo-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Yolo County, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yolo County is a county in California, United States, about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento. It<br \/>\nhad a population of 216,403 at the 2020 census, an estimated 224,410 by 2025, and covers 1,024<br \/>\nsquare miles (2,652 km2) centred near 38\u00b033\u2032N 121\u00b044\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland is the county seat; its postal code is 95695. The county holds 4 incorporated cities<br \/>\nand 12 unincorporated communities, none organised into civil townships since California abolished<br \/>\nthem, and it runs on Pacific Time. Its FIPS code is 06113.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Yolo County<\/h2>\n<p>Yolo County has 16 named places on record: 4 incorporated cities and 12 unincorporated<br \/>\ncommunities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census designated place;<br \/>\nUnincorp. covers small settlements with no formal boundary or recent census count.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Davis<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>66,850<\/td>\n<td>95616<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Woodland<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>61,032<\/td>\n<td>95695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Sacramento<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>53,915<\/td>\n<td>95691<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Winters<\/td>\n<td>City<\/td>\n<td>7,115<\/td>\n<td>95694<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Esparto<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>3,572<\/td>\n<td>95627<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dunnigan<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>1,382<\/td>\n<td>95937<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Knights Landing<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>1,117<\/td>\n<td>95645<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>El Macero<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>1,074<\/td>\n<td>95618<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Madison<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>581<\/td>\n<td>95653<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yolo<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>425<\/td>\n<td>95697<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Clarksburg<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>402<\/td>\n<td>95612<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Guinda<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>245<\/td>\n<td>95637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Rumsey<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>91<\/td>\n<td>95679<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brooks<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>31<\/td>\n<td>95606<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Capay<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>95607<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Zamora<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>95698<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Broderick and Bryte, two river-front settlements once listed on their own, are no longer<br \/>\nseparate places. Both were absorbed when West Sacramento incorporated as a single city in 1987,<br \/>\nand their names now mark neighborhoods inside that city rather than distinct communities.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>95616 &mdash; Davis (also covers the UC Davis campus and El Macero&#8217;s mail since 2006)<\/li>\n<li>95695 &mdash; Woodland (also serves 95776, Woodland&#8217;s eastern side)<\/li>\n<li>95691 &mdash; West Sacramento (also serves 95605, covering the old Broderick and Bryte areas)<\/li>\n<li>95694 &mdash; Winters<\/li>\n<li>95627 &mdash; Esparto<\/li>\n<li>95937 &mdash; Dunnigan<\/li>\n<li>95645 &mdash; Knights Landing<\/li>\n<li>95653 &mdash; Madison<\/li>\n<li>95697 &mdash; Yolo<\/li>\n<li>95612 &mdash; Clarksburg<\/li>\n<li>95637 &mdash; Guinda<\/li>\n<li>95679 &mdash; Rumsey<\/li>\n<li>95606 &mdash; Brooks<\/li>\n<li>95607 &mdash; Capay<\/li>\n<li>95698 &mdash; Zamora<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>El Macero lost its own ZIP code in 2006, when the Postal Service folded it into Davis&#8217;s<br \/>\n95616 zone; mail there now carries a Davis address.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Yolo County sits in California&#8217;s Sacramento Valley, on the west side of the Sacramento<br \/>\nRiver. Of its roughly 1,024 square miles, 1,015 are land and 8.9 are water, a small share held<br \/>\nmostly in the Sacramento River, Cache Creek and Putah Creek. The county&#8217;s western third rises<br \/>\ninto the Capay Valley and the foothills of the inner Coast Range, while the eastern two-thirds are<br \/>\nflat, irrigated farmland. Cache Creek runs the length of the Capay Valley before reaching the<br \/>\nlowlands near Woodland, and Putah Creek forms much of the county&#8217;s southern edge with Solano<br \/>\nCounty.<\/p>\n<p>Colusa County and Sutter County lie to the north, Sacramento County to the east, Solano County<br \/>\nto the south, and Napa County and Lake County to the west. <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/colusa-county\/\">Colusa County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sutter-county\/\">Sutter County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sacramento-county\/\">Sacramento County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/solano-county\/\">Solano County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/napa-county\/\">Napa County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/lake-county\/\">Lake County<\/a> all border Yolo directly.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Yolo County had a population of 216,403 at the 2020 census, and the latest estimate puts the<br \/>\ncounty near 224,410. Davis and Woodland are the two largest communities, together holding more<br \/>\nthan half the county&#8217;s residents. Median household income runs $91,752, below California&#8217;s<br \/>\nstatewide figure of $95,521 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to roughly 221 people per<br \/>\nsquare mile of land, concentrated almost entirely in the four cities along the Interstate 80 and<br \/>\nInterstate 5 corridors, with the Capay Valley towns to the west far sparser.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Educational services employs the most workers in the county, about 18,789 people, reflecting<br \/>\nthe size of the University of California, Davis, which alone counts 25,227 employees and anchors<br \/>\nDavis&#8217;s economy. Health care and social assistance employs about 11,308 people and retail trade<br \/>\nabout 10,155. West Sacramento&#8217;s Port of West Sacramento, an inland deep-water port on the<br \/>\nSacramento River, ships rice out and brings cement in, and the city has drawn a cluster of food<br \/>\nand beverage companies to its riverfront. Clarksburg, on the Sacramento River&#8217;s Merritt Island,<br \/>\nis the center of the Clarksburg wine appellation, home to Bogle Vineyards. Cache Creek Casino<br \/>\nResort, near Brooks, is run by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation and is one of the county&#8217;s largest<br \/>\nsingle employers outside the cities. The county&#8217;s biggest annual event is the Yolo County Fair,<br \/>\nheld each August in Woodland since 1935 and billed as California&#8217;s largest free-admission county<br \/>\nfair.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>California&#8217;s first legislature created Yolo County on 18 February 1850, one of the state&#8217;s<br \/>\noriginal 27 counties at statehood. The name comes from the Patwin word Yo-loy, meaning a place<br \/>\nabounding in rushes, describing the tule marshes that once covered much of the valley floor.<br \/>\nWashington, on the Sacramento River across from Sacramento and now part of West Sacramento, served<br \/>\nas the first permanent county seat before repeated flooding forced a move. Woodland became the<br \/>\ncounty seat in 1862 and was incorporated in 1871.<\/p>\n<p>The University Farm, established south of Davis in 1905 as an agricultural annex of the<br \/>\nUniversity of California, became an independent campus in 1959 and grew into UC Davis, now the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s largest employer and the force behind Davis&#8217;s growth from a farm town into a city of<br \/>\nnearly 67,000.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 80 crosses the county&#8217;s southeast corner through West Sacramento and Davis, and<br \/>\nInterstate 5 runs the length of the county&#8217;s east side through Woodland, Dunnigan and Zamora.<br \/>\nInterstate 505 branches off I-5 near Woodland toward Winters and the Bay Area. State Routes 16, 45,<br \/>\n84, 113 and 128 also cross the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sacramento &mdash; about 15 miles east of Woodland<\/li>\n<li>Vacaville &mdash; about 15 miles south of Winters<\/li>\n<li>Napa &mdash; about 35 miles southwest of Winters<\/li>\n<li>Fairfield &mdash; about 25 miles south of Winters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sacramento International Airport, about 15 miles east of Woodland, is the nearest major<br \/>\ncommercial airport. Amtrak&#8217;s Capitol Corridor and California Zephyr trains stop at the Davis<br \/>\nstation on Second Street, connecting to Sacramento, the Bay Area and points east.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Yolo County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in California&#8217;s Sacramento Valley, about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento, bordered by<br \/>\nColusa, Sutter, Sacramento, Solano, Napa and Lake counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Yolo County?<\/strong><br \/>\n216,403 at the 2020 census, with an estimate near 224,410 by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Yolo County?<\/strong><br \/>\n1,024 square miles (2,652 km2), of which 1,015 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Yolo County?<\/strong><br \/>\nWoodland, county seat since 1862, is the seat of government though Davis is the more populous<br \/>\ncity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Yolo County?<\/strong><br \/>\nFour incorporated cities &mdash; Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and Winters &mdash; plus 12<br \/>\nunincorporated communities including Esparto, Dunnigan, Knights Landing and Clarksburg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Yolo County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n95616 for Davis, 95695 for Woodland, 95691 for West Sacramento, 95694 for Winters, and smaller<br \/>\ncodes for each Capay Valley and river community, listed above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Yolo County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe University of California, Davis; the Clarksburg wine appellation; and the Yolo County Fair,<br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s largest free-admission county fair, held every August in Woodland.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/california\/\">Towns and villages in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yolo County is a county in California, United States, about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento. It had a population of 216,403 at the 2020 census, an estimated 224,410 by 2025, and covers 1,024 square miles (2,652 km2) centred near 38\u00b033\u2032N 121\u00b044\u2032W. Woodland is the county seat; its postal code is 95695. 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