Safest Neighborhoods in Citrus Heights, CA

The neighborhood that carries the city's own name sits in the northeast corner, where Citrus Heights runs up against Roseville to the north and Orangevale to the east. Old Auburn Road threads through it, Oak Avenue forms the southern edge, and the nearer you get to the Orangevale line the more the lots stretch out and the parcels grow. ... See Full Page

Sunrise Ranch is the quiet, higher-priced pocket wedged between Auburn Boulevard and Sunrise Boulevard, centered on Mariposa Avenue in the northern reach of Citrus Heights. It carries some of the steeper price tags in the city and reads as one of its calmer, more settled residential stretches, with the Roseville line just up Auburn to the north. ... See Full Page

Northwest Citrus Heights is the pocket people land in for the schools, and nobody here is subtle about it. Lichen K-8 sits right in the middle of the neighborhood on Lichen Drive, and it is the fixed point a lot of searches rotate around. The area reaches the Roseville line on its north and east and runs out to Roseville Road on the west, which buys you Citrus Heights pricing with one foot in the better-regarded north-county corridor. ... See Full Page

Rusch Park is the rare mid-priced neighborhood organized around a genuine recreation hub, and that hub is the reason to know the name. Rusch Community Park anchors the area off Auburn Boulevard with ball fields, swimming pools, a skate park, pickleball courts, and a community center set among mature oaks and a year-round stream. Having all of that inside the lines, rather than a drive away, is what sets the block apart. ... See Full Page

Chant occupies the western edge of Citrus Heights, in the pocket between Antelope Road and Auburn Boulevard where the city dissolves into the Foothill Farms side of Sacramento County. It is one of the more affordable corners of an already affordable city, and the price tags say so. People come here to get a Citrus Heights address and a yard without stretching the budget to do it. ... See Full Page

Arcade Creek takes its bearings from two things: the boulevard that runs its spine and the creek that gives it a name. Along Auburn Boulevard, inside the neighborhood's own lines, sit the Crosswoods Community Center and the Sylvan Oaks Library, so the everyday anchors here are a branch library and the green thread of Arcade Creek rather than a shopping strip. Greenback Lane clips the southwest corner and absorbs the bigger errands. ... See Full Page

Sylvan Old Auburn Road is the most historically interesting corner of Citrus Heights, and the greenest of these neighborhoods. It wraps around Sylvan Corners, the old junction of Auburn Boulevard, Old Auburn Road, and Sylvan Road that once sat on the Lincoln Highway, the original transcontinental route. The Sylvan name traces back to a 19th-century schoolhouse named for the wooded land, and the canopy still lives up to it. ... See Full Page