Roseville, CA

Located in Placer County just 18 miles northeast of Sacramento, Roseville was first settled in the 1840s by gold prospectors and ranchers. The city was incorporated in 1909. Roseville's early growth was largely spurred by the Southern Pacific Railroad, which runs through town.

• Roseville's population of about 109,000 is predominately middle class.
• About 35 percent of households in this family-oriented community have children under 18.
• The community is 79 percent white, 11 percent Latino, and 3.5 percent Asian.
• The city is spread out across 30 square miles. About 4,000 acres of that is open space such as parks and trails, encouraging an active lifestyle among Roseville residents.
• In 2006, CNN Money named Roseville the skinniest city (in terms of body mass index) in the country.

NEIGHBORHOODS AND DISTRICTS

• The housing stock in Roseville is on average about 11 years old.
• Neighborhoods and subdivisions in Roseville include Blue Oaks, Cherry Glen, Cirby Ranch, Cirby Side, Creekside, Cresthaven, Diamond Oaks, East Roseville Parkway, Enwood, Folsom Road, Foothills Junction, Galleria, Harding, Highland Reserve, Hillcrest, Hilltop Circle, Industrial Area East, Industrial Area West, Johnson Ranch, Junction West, Kaseberg Kingswood, Lead Hill, Los Cerritos, Maidu, Meadow Oaks, Olympus Pointe, Pleasant Grove, Quail Glen, Roseville Heights, Sierra Gardens, Sierra Vista, South Cirby, Stanford, Stanford Crossing, Sun City, Theiles Manor, Vineyard, and Woodcreek Oaks.
• Roseville is in the process of restoring its downtown, which used to thrive when the Southern Pacific Railroad ran through the city. The master revitalization plan calls for a streetscape project, a historic district, and some mixed-use office space.

GETTING AROUND

Roseville residents use a number of transportation services, many of which connect the city to metropolitan Sacramento towns:

• The Placer Commuter Express picks up from Taylor Road Park-and-Ride and takes commuters to Sacramento.
• The City of Roseville manages a municipal transit bus service.
• Placer County Transit buses serve Roseville and neighboring Rocklin, Lincoln, and Auburn.
• Amtrak makes a stop in Roseville on its Capitol Corridor Line.
• Two highways bisect Roseville: Interstate 80 and Route 65 run through the city.
• The average commuting time for residents is about 22 minutes, close to the national average.

EDUCATION

• Roseville's public primary and secondary schools rank highly compared to other schools in the state and nation.
• Heald College's Roseville campus enrolls about 1,000 students and offers degrees in business, health care, and technology.

ECONOMY AND INDUSTRIES

• Jobs in Roseville are concentrated in the financial, medical, and municipal sectors.
• Two of the largest employers in the city are Hewlett-Packard and the medical chain Kaiser Permanente.
• Retail also drives the Roseville economy, which has the 11th-highest retail sales in California.
• The Galleria and the Fountains are popular shopping complexes in Roseville.
• Tax revenues from the city's enormous Auto Mall have helped shore up the city's infrastructure.

BEST BETS

• Blue Line Gallery: A hub for the arts in the city, this gallery provides exhibitions and supports local artists and national artists. The gallery includes 5,000 square feet of exhibition space and performance space, as well as a children's gallery.
• Carnegie Museum: The Carnegie Museum, which offers walking tours, highlights the history of Roseville and Placer County. The collection features railroad and aircraft memorabilia, as well as antique household goods.
• Maidu Indian Museum: This museum showcases artifacts and exhibits chronicling the Maidu people, the first residents of the area. Visitors can take a trail past Maidu petroglyphs. The museum offers visitors the chance to see the Gold Rush through the eyes of the native peoples who were displaced.
• Roseville Telephone Museum: The telephone museum opened in 1994 to display a collection of antique telephones and telephone memorabilia. It includes some of the original Alexander Graham Bell phones from the late 19th century.
• Roseville Utility Exploration Center: This environmental learning center seeks to teach visitors about our natural resources. The building shares a space with a local library and is working toward its LEED certification as a green building.
• Magic Circle Theatre: This organization puts on musicals, movies, and other theatrical performances in the Roseville Theater and the Tower Theater, both of which are Art Deco-style buildings from the first half of the 20th century.

SPORTS TEAMS

• Roseville has no professional sports teams, but it does have sports leagues for adults and children.
• The city facilitates basketball, flag football, soccer, softball, and volleyball leagues.

LOCAL MEDIA

• Newspapers covering Roseville include the Roseville Press-Tribune, a local daily newspaper, as well as the Sacramento Bee. An online publication called Rocklin and Roseville Today also serves the area.
• More than a dozen local and regional radio stations and about 15 television stations broadcast in Roseville.