| Buy and Sell Land California | | | | 63 10 Kings County 131935 134543 01.98% |
| When does California land increase in | | | | 138708 03.10% 142561 02.78% 02.62% |
| value? | | | | 64 11 Tulare County 374023 381280 01.94% |
| What happens when you own California | | | | 391084 02.57% 401502 02.66% 02.39% |
| land and the population around it rises? | | | | 65 12 El Dorado County 161397 165767 |
| It means new jobs are coming into the | | | | 02.71% 169199 02.07% 172889 02.18% |
| area. What else? Money is going into the | | | | 02.32% |
| local economy. New infrastructures are | | | | 66 13 Stanislaus County 465287 480233 |
| grabbing their blue suede shoes and | | | | 03.21% 491014 02.24% 498355 01.50% |
| jumping onto the real estate dance floor | | | | 02.32% |
| including business centers, | | | | 67 14 Sacramento County 1266480 1301716 |
| manufacturing industries and energy | | | | 02.78% 1330730 02.23% 1352445 01.63% |
| plants. Surrounding California homes, | | | | 02.21% |
| schools, parks, hospitals, and shopping | | | | 68 15 Fresno County 814688 832057 02.13% |
| malls are blossoming! As the local | | | | 850650 02.23% 866772 01.90% 02.09% |
| economy expands recreational centers | | | | 69 16 Lake County 60611 62274 02.74% |
| emerge such as golf courses and | | | | 63397 01.80% 64446 01.65% 02.07% |
| theatres. Artists then depict the | | | | 70 17 Shasta County 167269 171923 02.78% |
| convergence of old local customs and new | | | | 175654 02.17% 177816 01.23% 02.06% |
| city styles and guess what? You make | | | | 71 18 Colusa County 19138 19370 01.21% |
| money! Not only is being in the middle | | | | 19755 01.99% 20339 02.96% 02.05% |
| of this California land development | | | | 72 19 Imperial County 143715 145702 |
| exciting, but most importantly, you | | | | 01.38% 148924 02.21% 152448 02.37% |
| stand a good chance of making money on | | | | 01.99% |
| your land for sale in California above | | | | 73 20 Tehama County 56816 57652 01.47% |
| what you paid. | | | | 58892 02.15% 60075 02.01% 01.88% |
| Simple supply and demand economics shows | | | | The noticable trend is that the counties |
| that the opposite holds true when people | | | | closest to the real estate in Los |
| begin to leave an area. For example, | | | | Angeles County CA and the San Francisco |
| when the devastative Hurricane Katrina | | | | Bay area experienced the most growth. |
| swept through New Orleans, Louisiana, it | | | | Placer County and Riverside County real |
| caused the real estate market there to | | | | estate are the top two areas with the |
| crash because everyone had to flee. | | | | fastest population increases in recent |
| Knowledge of population patterns is very | | | | years, growing at an average pace of |
| important to buy land California and | | | | about 5% a year. Both are adjacent to |
| sell land California. The chart below | | | | the major metroplis centers Los Angeles |
| shows how the total population of | | | | and San Francisco. Placer County is |
| California has increased at an average | | | | adjacent to the Bay area and Sacramento |
| rate of over 1% a year between | | | | County CA. Riverside land CA is a |
| 2001-2004. | | | | stone's throw from Los Angeles County |
| California State Population Statistics | | | | land. The top 3-5 spots (Madera County |
| 2001-2004: | | | | CA, Calaveras County CA, and San Joaquin |
| 2001 2002 % Change 2003 % Change 2004 % | | | | CA) are also in Northern California |
| Change Average Growth Rate over 3 Years | | | | farther out from the expensive San |
| California 34532163 34988261 01.32% | | | | Francisco area. They enjoy an average |
| 35462712 01.36% 35893799 01.22% 01.30% | | | | growth rate of about 3%. The 6-7 spots |
| California's growth rate of over 1.3% | | | | still around 3% growth a year (San |
| shows that more people are moving into | | | | Bernardindo County CA real estate and |
| California than are leaving. As a | | | | Kern County real estate) are attached to |
| result, the price of land continues to | | | | the |
| rise everywhere. However, even if this | | | | The next chart below shows the |
| ceased to continue there will always be | | | | population growth patterns for the state |
| certain areas where California land will | | | | of California by the top 20 slowest |
| increase in value. | | | | growing counties: |
| Looking at Land Lots for Sale California | | | | Top 20 Slowest Growing Counties in the |
| by County Population Statistics | | | | state of California |
| 2001-2004: | | | | 77 Bottom 20 County Name 2001 2002 % |
| The following chart below shows the | | | | Change 2003 % Change 2004 % Change |
| population growth patterns for land lots | | | | Average Growth Rateover 3 Years |
| for sale California by the 20 biggest | | | | 78 1 San Benito County 54994 55686 |
| counties in the state: | | | | 01.26% 56187 00.90% 56243 00.10% 00.75% |
| Largest 20 Counties in the state of | | | | 79 2 Plumas County 20901 21012 00.53% |
| California by Percent of Los Angeles | | | | 21198 00.89% 21359 00.76% 00.73% |
| 2 Top 20 County Name 2004 % size of Los | | | | 80 3 Solano County 404555 409503 01.22% |
| Angeles County | | | | 411636 00.52% 412970 00.32% 00.69% |
| 3 1 Los Angeles County 9937739 100.00% | | | | 81 4 Mendocino County 86946 87599 00.75% |
| 4 2 Orange County 2987591 30.06% | | | | 88476 01.00% 88551 00.08% 00.61% |
| 5 3 San Diego County 2931714 29.50% | | | | 82 5 Siskiyou County 44109 44231 00.28% |
| 6 4 San Bernardino County 1921131 | | | | 44630 00.90% 44891 00.58% 00.59% |
| 19.33% | | | | 83 6 Monterey County 408258 411578 |
| 7 5 Riverside County 1871950 18.84% | | | | 00.81% 414423 00.69% 414629 00.05% |
| 8 6 Santa Clara County 1685188 16.96% | | | | 00.52% |
| 9 7 Alameda County 1455235 14.64% | | | | 84 7 San Luis Obispo County 250867 |
| 10 8 Sacramento County 1352445 13.61% | | | | 252055 00.47% 253072 00.40% 254566 |
| 11 9 Contra Costa County 1009144 10.15% | | | | 00.59% 00.49% |
| 12 10 Fresno County 866772 08.72% | | | | 85 8 Humboldt County 126695 127424 |
| 13 11 Ventura County 797699 08.03% | | | | 00.58% 127908 00.38% 128529 00.49% |
| 14 12 San Francisco County 744230 | | | | 00.48% |
| 07.49% | | | | 86 9 Inyo County 17997 18299 01.68% |
| 15 13 Kern County 734846 07.39% | | | | 18364 00.36% 18244 -00.65% 00.46% |
| 16 14 San Mateo County 699216 07.04% | | | | 87 10 Sonoma County 465724 465902 00.04% |
| 17 15 San Joaquin County 649868 06.54% | | | | 467304 00.30% 468450 00.25% 00.19% |
| 18 16 Stanislaus County 498355 05.01% | | | | 88 11 Santa Barbara County 400816 401481 |
| 19 17 Sonoma County 468450 04.71% | | | | 00.17% 402795 00.33% 401851 -00.23% |
| 20 18 Monterey County 414629 04.17% | | | | 00.09% |
| 21 19 Solano County 412970 04.16% | | | | 89 12 Santa Clara County 1690090 1674598 |
| 22 20 Santa Barbara County 401851 | | | | -00.92% 1675915 00.08% 1685188 00.55% |
| 04.04% | | | | -00.09% |
| Notice how Los Angeles county real | | | | 90 13 Marin County 248399 247191 -00.49% |
| estate dwarfs the other counties by the | | | | 246635 -00.22% 246045 -00.24% -00.32% |
| size of its population. Orange County | | | | 91 14 Mono County 12897 12997 00.78% |
| real estate holds the second largest | | | | 12831 -01.28% 12766 -00.51% -00.34% |
| population size. Southern California | | | | 92 15 Alameda County 1470528 1463948 |
| real estate as a whole has 6 for 6 | | | | -00.45% 1458749 -00.36% 1455235 -00.24% |
| counties on the list of most populated | | | | -00.35% |
| counties in California, however 7-10 is | | | | 93 16 Sierra County 3528 3499 -00.82% |
| dominated by counties in the Northern | | | | 3546 01.34% 3490 -01.58% -00.35% |
| California real estate hemisphere, so | | | | 94 17 Alpine County 1204 1216 01.00% |
| they are right there too. The weather is | | | | 1188 -02.30% 1190 00.17% -00.38% |
| what continues to be the deciding factor | | | | 95 18 San Mateo County 707417 701271 |
| for people moving to Southern | | | | -00.87% 699094 -00.31% 699216 00.02% |
| California. | | | | -00.39% |
| The next chart below shows the | | | | 96 19 Santa Cruz County 255339 253352 |
| population growth trends for the state | | | | -00.78% 251725 -00.64% 250633 -00.43% |
| of California by the top 20 fastest | | | | -00.62% |
| growing counties: | | | | 97 20 San Francisco County 774479 761983 |
| Top 20 Fastest Growing Counties in the | | | | -01.61% 751908 -01.32% 744230 -01.02% |
| state of California | | | | -01.32% |
| 53 Top 20 County Name 2001 2002 % | | | | The most noticable pattern is the exodus |
| Change 2003 % Change 2004 % Change | | | | from San Francisco County CA real |
| Average Growth Rateover 3 Years | | | | estate. "Your prices are killing me |
| 54 1 Placer County 264874 279011 05.34% | | | | Larry!" That's because the average price |
| 293630 05.24% 307004 04.55% 05.04% | | | | of a home in San Francisco in 2006 was |
| 55 2 Riverside County 1620834 1694623 | | | | above $650,000. Out of all the counties |
| 04.55% 1782822 05.20% 1871950 05.00% | | | | in California, San Francisco had the |
| 04.92% | | | | worst population growth rate at negative |
| 56 3 Madera County 125880 128815 02.33% | | | | 1%. Yet, I can vouch for those going to |
| 133696 03.79% 138951 03.93% 03.35% | | | | the county, because the views are |
| 57 4 Calaveras County 41774 43143 03.28% | | | | spectacular in San Francisco and the |
| 44727 03.67% 45939 02.71% 03.22% | | | | people are great, they are very smart |
| 58 5 San Joaquin County 593079 612564 | | | | and stylishly astute. Stylishly.... hmmm |
| 03.29% 631876 03.15% 649868 02.85% | | | | Is that a word? Maybe it will be legit |
| 03.10% | | | | some day! Santa Barbara in Southern |
| 59 6 San Bernardino County 1765578 | | | | California also experienced a decrease |
| 1808893 02.45% 1862195 02.95% 1921131 | | | | in population size probably for the same |
| 03.16% 02.85% | | | | reason as San Francisco, wow what a |
| 60 7 Kern County 675859 693060 02.55% | | | | beautiful place Santa Barbara has |
| 713445 02.94% 734846 03.00% 02.83% | | | | become, and by the way it tops the list |
| 61 8 Merced County 218189 224934 03.09% | | | | of the best luxury homes in California |
| 231397 02.87% 237005 02.42% 02.80% | | | | with the highest average sales price for |
| 62 9 Sutter County 80138 82247 02.63% | | | | California homes in the Southern |
| 84670 02.95% 86760 02.47% 02.68% | | | | California region at $1,190,000. |