OUR CHANGING COMMUNITY
Our Population Continues to Grow Slowly
While total population growth remained under 1 percent, for the first time since 2004, foreign in-migration outpaced domestic out-migration resulting in a positive net migration.
How We Are Doing
Educational outcomes are under growing threat. Solano County’s high school dropout rate jumped 6 percent, rising to 28 percent in 2009. Dropout rates increased across nearly all ethnicities and races. Mirroring statewide trends, graduation rates dropped 1 percent from the previous year, but Solano rates remain 5 percent below the state average. Despite these negative trends, the percentage of high school graduates meeting UC/CSU requirements increased 1 percent.
Access to healthcare is becoming more limited. Solano County residents are more likely than residents in the rest of the state to have health insurance, due to rising unemployment, the percentage of residents covered through their employers dropped from 60 to 54 percent in 2009.
The housing market is stressed. Tracking statewide trends over the years, from 2008 to 2009, foreclosures fell in Solano County by 22 percent and by 20 percent in California. After declining since 2006, the average sale price of Solano homes stabilized in 2010.