Wasco, CA Road Trips
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Trip Routes
4
Longest Drive
260.1 mi
Sacramento, CA
Quickest Drive
3h 56m
Stockton, CA
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Wasco, CA by the Numbers
Recent demographic snapshot from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Population
26,222
Median Income
$55,521
Median Home Value
$251,900
Median Age
30.4
Source: US Census Bureau ACS 5-year (public domain). See our methodology for details.
Wasco, CA at a Glance
Founded
1945
Elevation
328 ft
Area
9 mi²
Notable People from Wasco, CA
A sampling of people born in Wasco, CA.
Suzanne Lacy
1945
American artist (born 1945)
City data from Wikidata (Q985255), available under CC0. Photos from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licenses. See our methodology for details.
Traveler Guide to Wasco, CA
Wasco is a city in Kern County in California's San Joaquin Valley.
Wasco is known for being the city of Roses. In fact if you buy roses in the U.S they probably came from Wasco so take a look around the fields or just pull over and enjoy your surroundings.
Visit family that may be behind bars, (worry not visitors the prison is far from the town and is surrounded by spiky roses). Rose Parade. Wasco has an annual Rose Parade which gives visitors a chance to buy the freshest roses possible. (Usually in August)check the web site for schedule. Wasco Recreation Ball Park. Cormack Park. Westside Park. Skate Park
Wasco is surprisingly well served by rail, with Amtrak providing six trains per day in each on its Gold Runner service between Oakland/Sacramento via Fresno, and Bakersfield 1 Wasco railway station, 700 G St. (updated Nov 2019)
Wasco is a real small town. Do not be fooled by the population that it claims;there is around 8,000 people in the prison and perhaps 1,000 more in other correctional institutions. You can walk through the whole town excluding the outskirts in little time.
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