Sun City, Menifee, California Sun City is a former census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States.

Along with the neighboring communities of Quail Valley and Menifee, it was incorporated as the City of Menifee on October 1, 2008.

The populace when Sun City was a CDP was 17,773 at the 2000 census.

Sun City is positioned along Interstate 215 just south of the town/city of Perris.

Sun City is a master-planned improve for senior people over age 55.

Originally assembled in 1960, it was one of four "Sun Cities" designed by Del Webb who later created retirement communities in Arizona, Nevada and Florida in the 1970s and '80s.

The Del Webb business opened Sun City Palm Desert, California east of Palm Springs in 1991.

Another evolution boom appeared in the late 1980s and 1990s with Menifee as another master-planned improve on the southeast edge of Sun City, and as of 2005, the one-square-mile region of homes, condos, schools, retail shops, golf courses and tennis courts still grows.

Menifee Valley Medical Center, positioned east of Interstate 215 on Mc - Call Boulevard, is a General Acute Care Hospital in Sun City with Basic Emergency Services as of 2005. Sun City is positioned at 33 42 29 N 117 11 56 WCoordinates: 33 42 29 N 117 11 56 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP had a total region of 7.8 square miles (20.2 km ), all of it land.

Climate data for Sun City, California As of the census of 2000, there were 17,773 citizens , 8,750 homeholds, and 5,197 families residing in the improve when it was still a CDP.

In the CDP the populace was spread out with 14.2% under the age of 18, 2.6% from 18 to 24, 13.2% from 25 to 44, 18.0% from 45 to 64, and 51.9% who were 65 years of age or older.

Sun City is famous for a large senior citizen population, most of them are white non-Hispanic Americans.

Sun City has multiple ethnic ancestral groups and the region has a sizeable American Jewish community.

The median income for a homehold in the CDP was $29,814, and the median income for a family was $38,131.

About 6.0% of families and 8.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 14.4% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.

In the California State Legislature, Sun City is in the 23rd Senate District, represented by Republican Mike Morrell, and in the 67th Assembly District, represented by Republican Melissa Melendez. In the United States House of Representatives, Sun City is in the California's 42nd congressional district, represented by Republican Ken Calvert. Sun City and the Menifee Valley is a concentration of neoconservative Republican strength in the Inland Empire region of Southern California.

"California's 42nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".



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Communities in Riverside County, California - Former Census-designated places in Riverside County, California - Retirement communities - Neighborhoods in Menifee, California - 1960 establishments in California