Sacramento Feasibility Studies

Industrial

CBRE puts Sacramento industrial vacancy at 6.0% in the second quarter of 2026, with 780,000 square feet of net absorption and an asking rent of $0.81 per square foot a month, triple net ⁷. For the same quarter Kidder Mathews reads direct vacancy at 6.5% ⁸, and Colliers 7.5%, down 70 basis points on the quarter ⁹. Each is its publisher's own measure, and this page does not combine them. The absorption figures differ in the same way: CBRE's 780,000 square feet of net absorption ⁷ and Colliers' 1.05 million square feet of warehouse net absorption ⁹ are two firms' counts for the same quarter.

Self-storage

In the City of Sacramento, RentCafe's August 2026 report expects 139,233 square feet of new storage space to open during 2026, about 2% of inventory, in a city with 5.1 square feet of storage per resident ⁵. Its March 2026 report had counted 230,919 square feet for the city for the same year ⁶. Across the whole metro, StorageCafe's 2026 supply report counts 481,000 square feet due, also about 2% of inventory ⁴.

Senior housing and the other classes

No Sacramento count was found for apartments, hotels, retail, senior housing, RV parks or gas stations. For senior housing the nearest dated figure is the survey's count of 404,158 residents aged 65 and over in the four counties ¹².

EDD's release of July 17, 2026 counts 1,112,700 nonfarm jobs in the Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom metro in June 2026, 7,600 more than a year earlier, a gain of 0.7% ³. A dated list of the market's largest employers with headcounts was not found, and neither was a register of the region's large announced projects.

The demand the record does document is industrial. Colliers' second-quarter 2026 report describes large leases and move-ins in West Sacramento and Woodland, and counts 1.05 million square feet of warehouse net absorption in the quarter ⁹.

In the federal income series, BEA puts per capita personal income in the four counties at $74,552 in 2024 ¹³, and the American Community Survey's 2020 to 2024 estimate puts median household income at $97,188 ¹². The same survey counts a resident labor force of 1,216,191 over 2020 to 2024 ¹²: people counted where they live, where EDD's payroll count is of jobs where they are, for a different period.

Sacramento County had 612,589 housing units on January 1, 2025 and 622,665 a year later ¹. In calendar 2025 it permitted 6,561 residential units, 4,629 of them single-family and 1,932 multifamily, in Census Building Permits Survey figures that EDD published on September 23, 2026 ². A calendar 2025 permit total for Placer County was not found.

Across the four counties, the 2020 to 2024 American Community Survey counts 881,889 households, 326,239 of them in renter-occupied homes and 555,650 in owner-occupied ones ¹². Renters who pay cash have a median gross rent of $1,819, and owner-occupied homes carry a median value of $589,500 ¹². Those are five-year estimates for 2020 to 2024, a different period from the single-year permit and population counts above.

No count of apartment vacancy, asking rent or units under construction was found for any of the four counties, so the survey's rent and the county permits are the housing record this page holds.

The four counties sit in SBA's Sacramento District, whose office also serves Amador, Butte, Nevada, San Joaquin, Shasta, Sutter and Yuba counties, among others ¹⁰. SBA's loan-level files hold 4,114 loans under 7(a) for projects in those counties, approved in fiscal years 2016 to 2025 for $2,301.3 million, and $795.6 million of 504 debentures over the same years, cancelled loans left out ¹⁷. A ranking of the lenders and development companies active in the market was not found; the state's fiscal 2025 lender table is on the California page, and SBA's own program tests are explained on the SBA 7(a) and 504 lending page.

Whether the outlying parts of El Dorado, Placer and Yolo counties are rural for USDA purposes, and where Opportunity Zone tracts and HUBZones fall in the four counties, was not settled by the sources gathered here.

• Which county the site is in. El Dorado County's January 2026 estimate of 189,852 was below its 190,397 of a year earlier, while Placer's rose to 434,823 ¹.
• For a Yolo County site, the county's own estimate, which moved only from 225,554 to 225,904 over 2025 ¹; the Placer and Sacramento County gains do not describe it.
• For a rental project in Roseville or Elk Grove, the competing apartments. The 1,151 and 1,138 single-family homes those cities added in 2025 ¹ are a count by structure type, not of rentals, and no source found counts the apartments a rental subject would compete with.
• A Placer County permit count for 2025. No calendar total was found, so a Placer site needs its own city or county permit record for the year.
• Which industrial reading fits the building. CBRE's 6.0% ⁷, Kidder Mathews' 6.5% direct ⁸ and Colliers' 7.5% ⁹ are three measures of one quarter, and the file names the one whose inventory matches the subject.
• Where a storage site's trade area falls. The City of Sacramento's 2026 pipeline went from 230,919 square feet in RentCafe's March report ⁶ to 139,233 in its August report ⁵; a trade area outside the city reads against the metro's 481,000 square feet instead ⁴.
• For an SBA file, whether the lender has closed loans in these counties: SBA's files hold 7(a) and 504 approvals for the four counties as a group (see lenders), and no lender ranking for the market was found.
• A current traffic count on the subject's segment of I-5 or I-80, in place of the 2011 District 3 volume ¹⁴.
• Which period each housing figure covers. The survey's rent, value and household counts span 2020 to 2024 ¹², the permits are calendar 2025 ² and the estimates are dated January 1 ¹; a demand model that mixes them names each one's period.
• Whether housing demand assumes accessory units: the county's pre-approved plans reach unincorporated land only ¹⁶.