Rancho Santa Fe Map
Rancho Santa Fe (Spanish: santa—holy, fe—faith) known locally as ?The Ranch?, is one of the most exclusive and affluent communities in Southern California. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California and an unincorporated bedroom community of San Diego County. At $245,631, it is one of the highest income communities in the United States with at least 1,000 households. The population was 3,117 at the 2010 census, down from 3,252 at the 2000 census.The CDP is primarily residential with one shopping avenue as well as several private schools, and single family residential areas situated on uncommonly large lots.
Rancho Santa Fe has many strict architectural design codes as can be exemplified by several attempts from local residents to improve upon or build new residences. Forbes reported Rancho Santa Fe as having the third most expensive ZIP code in the United States, and most expensive in California, with a median home sale price of $2,585,000. Some homes in ZIP code 92067 but not within the CDP are valued at more than the median home-value within the Master Planned Community that makes up the official CDP, and many people who live within the 92067 ZIP code cite their community as Rancho Santa Fe even though they do not live within the strict boundaries of the Master Planned Community. The United States Postal Service (USPS) refers to all homes in the 92067 and 92091 ZIP codes, as well as many of the communities in the 92127 ZIP code, as "Rancho Santa Fe".
In 1906, the Santa Fe Railway initiated a project of growing eucalyptus trees for railroad timber at the Rancho San Dieguito which constitutes present-day Rancho Santa Fe. At that time about 93% of the property was under one ownership, but the balance of the acreage was vested in a number of separate owners.
Nearby cities include Escondido, Poway, Vista, Carlsbad, Oceanside.