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Originally Posted by CastleScott
I'm going to guess that the 2020 count of Sacramento will top 504,000-just wondering what your guessiemates are??
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Do you mean Sacramento City proper? Its estimated 2016 population is 493,025. However, unless Sacramento City proper can annex adjacent "Un-City" areas to it, or becomes more infill development friendly (particularly in the old North Sacramento area where swaths of vacant space still abound, they just need better road access), it probably will not grow much above 500,000.
Sacramento County is odd relative to other California counties in that it has so much "un-City", namely, so much urban and suburban area that is unincorporated, surrounding it. Sacramento city proper made a big mistake in the 1950's when it did not try to annex that, in particular anything and everything starting to develop around then McLellan and Mather airbases. North Highlands, Rancho Cordova, Carmichael, and Arden Arcade should have been grabbed.
What if a more proactive City of Sacramento had also encouraged suburban development along the American River and what is now the Route 50 corridor *first*, which at the time was many square miles of gold dredge tailings, unsuitable for any "farm to fork" efforts? And built more than a one hand count of bridges crossing that river?