Area Facts

El Dorado Hills is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County. It is represented by three supervisors on the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. Community services are provided by either El Dorado County or the El Dorado Hills Community Services District (CSD).

El Dorado Hills is considered a CENSUS DESIGNATED PLACE. This means it is a type of place (a concentration of population) identified by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes. CDPs are communities that lack separate municipal government, but which otherwise physically resemble incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located. The boundaries of a CDP have no legal status.

• El Dorado Hills encompasses 17.9 square miles of land along the western boundary of El Dorado County
• Elevation: 764 ft to 1,200 ft
• Population: 42,078 (estimated by the El Dorado Hills Fire Department at the beginning of 2008)
• Largest community in El Dorado County (about 4 times larger than the City of Placerville)
• Est. Median Household Income in 2007: $116,600
• Est. Median House/Condo Value in 2007: $739,800
• 75.4% married; 16.1% never married; 1.1% separated; 3.0% widowed; 4.4% divorced
• 97.3% High School or higher; 51/7% Bachelor's degree or higher; 17.5% graduate or professional degree; 3.1% unemployed
• Mean travel time to work: 31.6 minutes
• Property crime in El Dorado County affects 2.89% of the population; 0.28% below the state average of 3.89%. However, violent crime affects 0.59% of the population compared to the state average of 0.53%.

Weather
In El Dorado Hills, the hottest month is July and the coldest is January. The average maximum temperature for July is about 95 degrees, and for January it is 54 degrees. December is the month with the lowest average minimum temperature: a little over 35 degrees. The average yearly rainfall is about 26.6 inches. The maximum yearly rainfall is abou 41.9 inches. The wettest month is January, with about 5.5 inches on average. Some frost is common in the winter months, but it rarely snows in El Dorado Hills.

Source: citydata.com