Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Arden-Arcade, CA

Arden-Arcade is not an incorporated city but a census-designated place — an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, just east of the city of Sacramento and west of Carmichael.

With 94,659 residents in the 2020 census, Arden-Arcade is the second most populous census-designated place in California — bigger than many incorporated cities, despite having no city government of its own.

Arden-Arcade has about 38,381 households, averaging 2.44 people per household, and only about 46.2% of its homes are owner-occupied, so more than half of its residents are renters.

The land was originally Rancho del Paso, a Mexican land grant that John Sutter obtained in 1843.

From 1862 to 1905 the rancho was owned by James Ben Ali Haggin, who made it famous for breeding racehorses that were shipped east to Kentucky by rail.

The "Arcade" in the name comes from an arcade-like canopy of native oak trees along Arcade Creek where horses were once staged for loading onto trains; "Arden" most likely comes from developer Orlando Robertson, who hailed from Arden Hills, Minnesota.

Developer Orlando Robertson bought the rancho in 1905 for $1.5 million and subdivided it starting in 1910, naming streets after inventors of the era — Watt, Edison, Howe, and Bell among them.

In November 2010, Arden-Arcade voters considered becoming a city and rejected the cityhood measure overwhelmingly, with about 76% voting no.

Arden-Arcade's southern border is formed primarily by the American River, and much of the community was built between 1945 and 1970, leaving it with a strong stock of mid-century homes.