Rancho Santa Margarita

 Rancho Santa Margarita is a young medium-sized master-planned community/city in sunny Orange County, California. It is perfect for professionals, families, and retirees. It is the 179th largest community in the state and has around ten neighborhoods. It was incorporated in 2001 and is a general law city with a council-manager form of city government. It is family-friendly, has great public schools, and a large contingent of college-educated adults that encourage academic efforts and values. Over 51% of adults in the community have four-year degrees or higher, which is more than twice the educational average for U.S. communities. It is also home to wonderful parks, and it is a clean and green community with low crime rates and plenty of peace and quiet.  It is also an ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse community. The three largest groups by race are Caucasian, Asian, and Hispanic and foreign-born individuals make up around 16.5% of the city’s population. Common ancestries among residents include German, Irish, English, Italian, Norwegian, and more. English is the primary written and spoken language in the community, followed by Spanish and Chinese.

The city spans 12.94 square miles and it is a wealthy community compared to state and national economic standards. It is a definitively white-collar community, where more than 90% of the workforce hold white-collar positions. The 2018 estimated population was 48,325 and the approximate population density is around 3800 people per square mile. In 2017, the estimated median household income was $112,643, and the estimated per capita income was $49,031. And in the same year, the median house or condo value was $677,977, the mean price on all housing units was $826,523 and the median gross rent was $1,911. As of 2010, the city’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report presented the top five employers as Applied Medical, O’Connell Landscape Maintenance, Saddleback Valley Unified School District, Lucas, and Mercier Construction and Control Components Inc.

Most commuters drive themselves or carpool to their jobs. The average commute time for residents of the community is about thirty minutes a day. Public education is provided by the schools of two districts, Saddleback Valley Unified School District and Capistrano Unified School District. The community has four nearby county parks and thirteen community parks with a variety of amenities. The city occupies the lion’s share of the Trabuco plateau and was a quite temperate Mediterranean climate. Homes for sale come in a variety of sizes and styles to suit the needs of potential buyers. Other real estate options like apartments do, to some extent, exist but are much more rare. To find the home of your dreams in sunny Rancho Santa Margarita, call friendly neighborhood real estate agent Larry Bammer today at 1-949-547-2255.