Yolo (

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and

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Yolo County Yolo County (; Wintun: ''Yo-loy''), officially the County of Yolo, is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. Yolo County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood ...

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. It is located 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the county seat,

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and northwest of the

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. Yolo's ZIP Code is 95697 and its

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. It lies at an elevation of 82 feet (25 m). The population was 425 at the 2020 census.

History

Yolo was formerly known as "Cacheville", "Cochran's Crossing", "Cochranes Crossing", "Hutton's Ranch", and "Travelers Home".

Education

Cache Creek High School, a

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named after the nearby stream of water, is located in Yolo and is a part of the Woodland Joint Unified School District. Students residing in Yolo go to schools in

, unless high school students choose to attend Cache Creek.

Geography

According to the

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, the CDP covers an area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km), all of it land.

Climate

The

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subtype for this climate is " CSA " (Mediterranean Climate).

Demographics

The 2020 United States census reported that Yolo had a population of 425. The population density was . The racial makeup of Yolo was 139 (32.7%)

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, 1 (0.2%)

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, 30 (7.1%) Native American, 4 (0.9%) Asian, 0 (0.0%)

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, 167 (39.3%) from other races, and 84 (19.8%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 302 persons (71.1%). The census reported that 99.1% of the population lived in households, 4 people (0.9%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and no one was institutionalized. There were 153 households, out of which 48 (31.4%) included children under the age of 18, 68 (44.4%) were married-couple households, 6 (3.9%) were

cohabiting Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become incr ...

couple households, 52 (34.0%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 27 (17.6%) had a male householder with no partner present. 38 households (24.8%) were one person, and 20 (13.1%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.75. There were 98

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(64.1% of all households). The age distribution was 101 people (23.8%) under the age of 18, 34 people (8.0%) aged 18 to 24, 83 people (19.5%) aged 25 to 44, 128 people (30.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 79 people (18.6%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 42.6years. For every 100 females, there were 99.5 males. There were 158 housing units at an average density of , of which 153 (96.8%) were occupied. Of these, 60 (39.2%) were owner-occupied, and 93 (60.8%) were occupied by renters.

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* {{authority control Census-designated places in Yolo County, California Unincorporated communities in California Former county seats in California Census-designated places in California Unincorporated communities in Yolo County, California