The community has a small shopping center Murieta Plaza with a quality Food Market, post office, gas station, fire station, bank, 2 fitness clubs, a few small restaurants and farmers market Davis Ranch a few minutes away .
The two main part of the community are Rancho Murieta North and Rancho Murieta South, each surrounding an 18 hole championship golf course.
Currently, Rancho Murieta has 2,273 houses, 200 townhouses and 48 vacant lots. The zoning is R2, R4 and R5 for townhouses.
Schools serving Rancho Murieta are some of the best in Northern California:
- Cosumnes River Elementary School has the State Rank: 10, the API Score 902.
The Middle School has the State Rank: 9, the API Score: 845
The High School has The State Rank: 9, the API Score: 819.
Rancho Murieta is located in the Cosumnes Unincorporated Area of Sacramento County.
The Community Services District provides water, sewer and garbage collection and the RMA provides landscape, street maintenance, and the enforcement of the CC&R's.
The community fills its own reservoirs with water from Cosumnes River.
Rancho Murieta CC&R’s are generally about preserving and keeping the community beautiful and safe.
The popular transportation here are electric carts.
The community guard patrols the area 24/7/365 and responds quickly in any event.
Rancho Murieta provides many opportunities for recreation and leisure for members of all ages. 
The 18-hole "North" course, was redesigned in 1986 by Arnold Palmer.
RM also offers six tennis courts, 3 baseball fields, a basketball court, playgrounds for children, 6 lakes and ponds, a beach on Lake Clementia, two fishing lakes
and tens of miles of biking and running trails. To see trails go to: http://www.murietaonline.com/resident-guide/rancho-murieta-map/trails
The 3,500 acres of Rancho Murieta is a private refuge -- no hunting is allowed, so the rolling hills are full of wildlife. Deer, turkey, geeses and swans are common here. 
Lakes are good for bass fishing.
RM was developed as much as possible to keep it in its natural state.
Rocks can not be removed and each native tree that is removed from the footprint of a home must be replanted elsewhere in the community.
This restrictions leads to unique homes designed to match the terrain so each house is different in a different setting .
In the “gold era “ the land along the Cosumners River was called Bridge House. There was even the Bridge House post office form 1901 until 1918.
One of the first settlers here was Elitha Donner, daughter of the Donner Party leader.
During the "gold era" miners came to Bridge House, and when gold was gone, Granlees family bought the land from living miners , started farming here.
Mary Granlees deeded her land to her 3 sons in 1915 and about 55 years later in 1970 the brothers sold 2,200 acres for 1, 250,000 $ to the Pension Trust Fund of Operating Engineers Union Local 3 .
The heavy equipment operators chose this site along the Cosumnes River as a training school.
"We ripped out the streets, everything here is underground, as it should be -- and we built the six lakes. ... We did it with trainees, and they were learning to build things. They weren't just pushing dirt around”.
They have a saying in the Engineers : "They'll never build a monument to the Engineers. We build our own. "
With their work, the land became Rancho Murieta.
Currently developers working in North RM are Robert J. Cassano of Murieta Holdings and Gerry N. Kamilos and South developer Reynen & Bardis.
The future residential build out is currently estimated at 4,183 units.
Under the pressure of the community, developers divided planned part of the community for small communities under 100 houses , to avoid fulfilling requirements to build lower income housing there.
In 2000 developers planned to build 1500 houses within 10 years. They build over 750 houses, then market went down and development stopped.
There is some issue with the land of 57 acres that was bought on auction for 2000 $.
There is also plan a to build Murieta Gardens I and II in the south side of Highway 16 .
The biggest challenge in this community is to provide water to the planned future housing . The problem is that there is no way to store this water for the community.
As for November 30, 2009, there are 53 homes for sale including 22 short sales. Prices are from 150K for a BO townhouse to 880 K for single family, from 99/ sq ft to 238 / sq ft
Averages in August :
$472,982, 3.3 beds, 2,523 sqft, $187 per sqft.
There are two very active RE offices, that are selling houses and lots from the beginning when Rancho Murieta was developed :
1/Rancho Murieta Homes & Land with 7 RE licensees, small family brokerage owned by Karen Hoberg.
2/ Town and Country with 14 RE licensees, owned by Ina Semrau. 
A few facts from the past:
December 1978: Baseball Hall of Fame Willie Mays won a lottery to buy property and build a home here. Several days later, development officials say they have discovered Mays failed to do some necessary paperwork and has been excluded .
August 1980: Ford shoots a commercial for the new Mustang at Rancho Murieta.
July 1986: Part-time Murieta resident Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France
August 1987: Nearly 100,000 spectators attend the weeklong Gold Rush tournament in Rancho Murieta, a Senior Tour record.
