Good areas in Elk Grove? (Sacramento, Stockton: section 8, foreclosure, rental)

[NorCalBound]

Does someone know what areas are the good areas in Elk Grove? We need to rent there (or right next door) for a year. Thanks!

[bigdave01]

Elk Grove is decent area, it has grown very quickly over the last few years and it is just rows and rows of homes. I am not sure about crime, but schools are also decent. I dont know different areas, but just stay away from south sacramento. That is a very ghetto area.

[Evlevo]

And almost all of the city is a "good area". There are a few exceptions, and you'll easily be able to tell which ones because they are 1) older, and 2) look run down and ghetto. Most of EG fits fairly well into the stereotype of "looks bad, is bad, looks good, is good". That's not to say that the city is crime free (and occasionally the state will put a "Section 8" resident in a $500,000 house, possibly next door to you) but for the most part the most crime that the average person would ever have to deal with is a rather rare car/home break in.

Not all of south sac is bad though (I lived there for 2.5 years). I would avoid the area south and just north of Meadowview, as well as the "parkway" area (streets are "G Parkway", "A parkway", etc). There are some areas of South Sac (like just north of Laguna Creek) that are as good as most of Elk Grove.

Basically take a drive through the area, if it looks good, it's a keeper!

[Tim Currie]

There really aren't any bad areas in Elk Grove. It's almost entirely a very new suburb, with a few old neighborhoods in the old part of town. It's total suburbia.

However, the closer you are to the Sacramento city line (north) you might run into a few areas that are inbetween South Sacramento (generally bad, but not all) and Elk Grove.

[Fearless Kid]

I've moved to Elk Grove in Laguna area in 2004, moved to West Sac a year later, now I'm back in Elk Grove again. The part near I-5 is better than the parts near highway 99 IMO.

[Angelina_Veal]

The simple fact that certain individuals are calling all of Elk Grove good or labeling South Sacramento ghetto really shows how far we have come in society. Greenhaven and Land Park are considered "South Sacramento" and they have homes in the 500,000 price range. Is that ghetto? Or even better, Elk Grove has seen an increase in crime in the past few months than in the past years. A woman home was broken into and she was beaten and robbed. This was in Elk Grove not South Sacramento. Please do not elude yourself with your hidden racism

Also, the state does not place Section 8 participants into 500,000. The owners of the home chose to have their rental accept Section 8 therefore offering their home to the underserved.

The reality is that the economy is in a horrible state. Everyone has to budget and some families are in dire situations. But I guess Elk Grove doesn't have that problem. Although the foreclosure rate is higher in Elk Grove than in South Sacramento. I wonder why people in the "ghetto" can keep their homes while the lovely residents of Elk Grove have to walk away from theirs! What idiots!

[edwardius]

In the context of this discussion, I think when the OP was referring to South Sacramento he/she meant Meadowview, Valley Hi and Parkway.

Those areas can get kind of ghetto. You have hookers along Stockton Blvd. The city and state had to take over the Franklin Villa development because of the open air drug market.

I am not the biggest fan of Elk Grove myself, but compared to the neighborhoods I am referring to above, most Elk Grove doesn't have that level of social breakdown that you see in Meadowview, in part of Valley Hi and in parts of the Parkway neighborhood.

[austinjfox]

i dunno i have noticed a huge increase in crime. my friend was just mugged at gunpoint last night right down the street from my house. and i live in east eg (by pleasant grove high school). it used to be a safe and friendly environment but now i feel so unsafe when i leave my house.