ELIGIBLE RURAL AREAS- CALIFORNIA

Post date: Jan 19, 2011 4:24:13 AM

Guaranteed Rural Housing Loan Program

United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development

The Guaranteed Rural Housing loan program may be used to

finance properties located in rural areas. Rural is defined as any

town of 25,000 or less that is not adjacent to a large city or that

is not part of a continuous urban area.

Since California is a large state with many small towns, a listing of all eligible rural towns

would take several pages. Therefore, the listing below is intended to give an overview of

eligible rural areas in each county. This listing is of towns where the rural population is

the largest and most concentrated and where there is the most activity of USDA GRH

loans.

Also, please note that there are 20 counties in California that are completely eligible for

the GRH loan program. Those counties are listed on the third page of this handout.

The list below is only a partial listing of the many small communities

eligible to participate in the Guaranteed Rural Housing loan program. Maps

of eligible and ineligible areas are available at the following website:

http://eligibility.sc.egov.usda.gov

Butte El Dorado (cont.) Fresno (cont.) Humboldt (cont.)

Biggs Placerville Orange Cove Rio Dell

Durham Pollock Pines Parlier Scotia

Gridley Shingle Springs Reedley

Palmero Riverdale

San Joaquin Imperial

Fresno Selma Brawley

Contra Costa Auberry Squaw Valley Calipatria

Byron Biola Heber

Caruthers Holtville

Coalinga Humboldt Imperial

El Dorado Easton Arcata Seeley

Cameron Park Firebaugh Ferndale Westmoreland

Coloma Fowler Fortuna

Diamond Springs Huron Garberville

El Dorado Hills Kerman Hydesville Kern

Georgetown Kingsburg Loleta Arvin

Grizzly Flats Mendota McKinleyville California City

California Eligible Rural Areas