El Dorado County, California

El Dorado County population, land area and income

El Dorado County had 192,823 residents in the Census Vintage 2024 estimate, on 1,707.8 square miles of land. It ranks 29th of 58 in California by population and 27th by land area. That works out to 112.9 people per square mile, near the US average of 96.3, and above the national county median.

The median county-equivalent in California has 187,274 residents, about the same as El Dorado County.

Its SAIPE 2023 median household income of $107,063 is in the top tenth among 3,143 counties with an estimate.

How El Dorado County's population changed since 2020

El Dorado County gained 1,573 residents between the July 2020 and July 2024 estimates, a rise of 0.8%. That ranks 19th of 58 in California for growth. The median California county changed by -0.6%, and the state as a whole by -0.2%.

Since the April 2020 estimates base, El Dorado County recorded 6,461 births and 7,590 deaths, a natural change of -1,129. Net international migration added +1,244 and net domestic migration, people moving to or from other US counties, came to +1,647. The largest single component was domestic migration, which added 1,647 people.

Where El Dorado County is

The Census internal point of El Dorado County is at 38.785600, -120.534200. It sits in UTM zone 10N. The map shades California's 58 county-equivalents by population change from 2020 to 2024, darker for faster growth, with El Dorado County outlined. Dots are towns of 1,000+ people with residents in it.

Towns in El Dorado County

2 incorporated places of 1,000+ people have residents in El Dorado County, 31,920 people together, or 17% of the county. Each figure counts only the part of the town inside El Dorado County; towns marked "part" extend into another county. The largest is South Lake Tahoe with 21,225.

Counties bordering El Dorado County

The Census 2024 county adjacency file lists 5 neighbors for El Dorado County, including 1 across a state line. The most populous is Sacramento County, CA, with 1,611,231 residents. Distances run between Census internal points in a straight line.

• Sacramento County

  1,611,231 people

  49 mi WSW

• Placer County

  433,822 people

  22 mi NNW

• NV

  Douglas County, NV

  49,564 people

  50 mi E

• Amador County

  42,026 people

  25 mi SSW

• Alpine County

  1,099 people

  41 mi ESE

Distance to Sacramento and the nearest big city

Sacramento is 53.7 miles WSW of El Dorado County's internal point in a straight line. The nearest place of 100,000 or more is Roseville, CA (population 163,304), 42.3 miles away. The nearest place of 10,000 or more is Placerville, CA (population 10,695), 14.7 miles away.

El Dorado County FIPS code

The FIPS code of El Dorado County is 06017: state code 06 for California plus county code 017. Use it as text, with the leading zero, when joining Census, BLS, or CDC county tables. SAIPE lists its 2023 median household income as $107,063.