Bay Area Census and Rankings

[bay_area]

Originally Posted by dewback

The East Bay is sometimes seen as a bedroom area for SF/SJ, but I can see the same thing in some parts of Peninsula. Also, the area around Oakland looks the most industrial. Oakland should be considered as having it's own nature/culture, and I see it as being more underrated than San Jose. Some areas of the Northern East Bay are often associated with education or being "whiter" because of Albany's recognized public schools and the presence of UC Berkeley. Yes, UC Berkeley is a majority non-white student institution, but the faculty and the city are much whiter in comparison to Oakland.

one thing about white people.

The white people in Oakland-Berkeley tend not to be jackasses but rather very cosmopolitan in their exposure to the world-so its not as much an issue here as it might be elsewhere.

[bay_area]

Another thing that is rarely known about Oakland is that the city has a very large concentration of highly educated residents. Oakland and Berkeley together have 55,000 residents with graduate degrees. That's astounding.

CA Cities ranked by number of graduate degrees, 2000 Census
1 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA 208,984
2 San Diego, CA San Diego, CA 103,771
3 San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA 97,470
4 San Jose, CA Santa Clara, CA 61,030
5 Oakland, CA Alameda, CA 33,802
6 Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA 22,656
7 Berkeley, CA Alameda, CA 22,637
8 Fremont, CA Alameda, CA 22,516
9 Sacramento, CA Sacramento, CA 21,588
10 Irvine, CA Orange, CA 21,503

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by bay_area

Another thing that is rarely known about Oakland is that the city has a very large concentration of highly educated residents. Oakland and Berkeley together have 55,000 residents with graduate degrees. That's astounding.

CA Cities ranked by number of graduate degrees, 2000 Census
1 Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA 208,984
2 San Diego, CA San Diego, CA 103,771
3 San Francisco, CA San Francisco, CA 97,470
4 San Jose, CA Santa Clara, CA 61,030
5 Oakland, CA Alameda, CA 33,802
6 Long Beach, CA Los Angeles, CA 22,656
7 Berkeley, CA Alameda, CA 22,637
8 Fremont, CA Alameda, CA 22,516
9 Sacramento, CA Sacramento, CA 21,588
10 Irvine, CA Orange, CA 21,503

Many at the University live in Oakland, so that makes sense (I know a couple). Berkeley is only so big, but the school is relatively large.

I also agree that the Oakland-hating is very excessive. It's a fine city.

[metropolismayor]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

Many at the University live in Oakland, so that makes sense (I know a couple). Berkeley is only so big, but the school is relatively large.

I also agree that the Oakland-hating is very excessive. It's a fine city.

Props to Oakland!

[vadin]

Originally Posted by metropolismayor

Props to Oakland!

I second that. I used to spend a lot of time in Oakland before I got married and had kids. Lake Merritt, Lakeshore Blvd., Piedmont Ave., College Ave., The Golden Bear Pub, The Paramount Theatre, Yoshi's, Flint's BBQ.... I had many great times in all those spots. The "Town" deserves a lot more credit than it gets.

[arturo]

Originally Posted by metropolismayor

Props to Oakland!

I actually love Oakland. As a kid I disliked it because of what people said but once I went there I loved it...more than SF in some ways.

[surrill]

Originally Posted by metropolismayor

Props to Oakland!

yup yup.. i also luv oakland....great chinatown!

[lugueron]

JoshuaSantos "Cisco is the largest Internet infrastructure company in the world by far and is headquartered in SJ"


Cisco derived it's name from San Francisco. It used to be spelled out in all lower case to indicate that it was a part of a bigger word.

[arturo]

Originally Posted by lugueron

JoshuaSantos "Cisco is the largest Internet infrastructure company in the world by far and is headquartered in SJ"


Cisco derived it's name from San Francisco. It used to be spelled out in all lower case to indicate that it was a part of a bigger word.

Yes, and San Francisco's name is derived from St. Francis...so Cisco is really honoring a Catholic Saint. But it's based here and that's what counts, otherwise I can say that Bank of America, though based in SF, was founded in SJ as the Bank of Italy and is thus part of SJ's economy or something.

PS: The Cisco logo also happens to be the twin towers and main span of the Golden Gate.

[JoshuaSantos]

Originally Posted by lugueron

JoshuaSantos "Cisco is the largest Internet infrastructure company in the world by far and is headquartered in SJ"


Cisco derived it's name from San Francisco. It used to be spelled out in all lower case to indicate that it was a part of a bigger word.

Which makes it even more ironic that they decided to build their HQ in San Jose.

[krudmonk]

Originally Posted by lugueron

Cisco derived it's name from San Francisco. It used to be spelled out in all lower case to indicate that it was a part of a bigger word.

The city got its name from the bay, which happens to reach down to San Jose.

[metropolismayor]

Originally Posted by krudmonk

The city got its name from the bay, which happens to reach down to San Jose.

When it does reach San Jose, here's what it looks like:

[The misanthropist]

Originally Posted by bay_area

one thing about white people.

The white people in Oakland-Berkeley tend not to be jackasses but rather very cosmopolitan in their exposure to the world-so its not as much an issue here as it might be elsewhere.

Why do you feel the need to clarify that? Is it exceptional for white people not to be jackasses?

[lugueron]

Originally Posted by arturo

Yes, and San Francisco's name is derived from St. Francis...so Cisco is really honoring a Catholic Saint. But it's based here and that's what counts, otherwise I can say that Bank of America, though based in SF, was founded in SJ as the Bank of Italy and is thus part of SJ's economy or something.

PS: The Cisco logo also happens to be the twin towers and main span of the Golden Gate.

I think Cisco Systems originally wanted to be associated to San Francisco since San Jose was not well known at the time. Otherwise, it would have been named Jose Systems. :-).

[lugueron]

Originally Posted by metropolismayor

San Jose's technology companies FUEL SF as a financial center. Why is that so hard to understand?

San francisco's Financial Center was already well establish and big, way before Silicon Valley got started (thanks to Stanford). San Jose is only a portion of Silicon Valley.

Seriously, we are BAY AREA, made up of many different strenghts and beauty. Makes it one of the best place to live.

[LApride]

Sorry, I have no place in this thread but I hate the team that wears black and pink ..oh sorry, I mean black and orange up there in the bay soooo bad, I had to say hello. On behalf of all who bleed blue, GIANTS SUCK!!!!!!!!!

[Robert Stark]

After Several Years Of Decline, Population Starts To Grow Again
Ilene Lelchuk, San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 2007


The San Francisco and San Jose metropolitan areas are slowly rebounding from the dot-gone population bust of the early 2000s, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.

The nine-county region’s population grew by almost 2 percent, adding more than 136,000 residents between 2000 and 2006, according to data to be released today. That brought the Bay Area’s population on July 1, 2006, to 7.2 million, with about 57 percent of the increase due to international immigration.

"There is something of a comeback for the Bay Area," said Brookings Institution demographer William Frey. The impact of the high-tech industry downturn "may have receded and people may be coming to grips with the expensive housing market. It’s a modest good news story for Bay Area."

The growth is sluggish, however, Frey pointed out. The combined populations of San Francisco, Oakland and Fremont and their surrounding areas grew just 0.5 percent between 2005 and 2006. The area had previously lost population each year this decade, according to Census Bureau estimates. The population of the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara area grew 1.5 percent between 2005 and 2006.

Compare that to growth of 3.1 percent between 2005 and 2006 in Bakersfield, the state’s fastest-growing metropolitan area. The combined metropolitan area of Riverside, San Bernardino and Ontario came in a close second with a 3 percent growth rate. Demographers who have been watching California’s inland growth say it is driven by the high cost of housing in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Among the 361 metro areas across the country included in the new census data, the Atlanta area experienced the largest gain between 2000 and 2006, growing by 890,000 people to a population of 5.1 million.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area experienced the second-largest increase, adding 842,000 people between 2000 and 2006 for a total last July of about 6 million people.

Frey and other analysts have noted that immigration, rather than natural increase—births minus deaths—account for a large chunk of the population gains in big cities that grew.

For example, almost 38,000 people moved away from the region that includes Boston, Cambridge and Quincy, Mass., between 2005 and 2006, yet its population grew 0.1 percent because of net international immigration of 24,700 people and natural increase of 19,238 (54,878 births minus 35,640 deaths), according to the new Census Bureau estimates.

In California, the Los Angeles-Orange County region grew 0.1 percent between 2005 and 2006, when 229,000 residents left, 120,000 international migrants arrived and there was natural increase of 126,568. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont region, which grew 0.5 percent, lost 42,500 residents to migration within the U.S and gained 27,495 from natural increase and 36,800 from international immigration.

Online resources

Find population estimates at the U.S. Census Bureau’s Web site: www.census.gov.

[Robert Stark]

[Robert Stark]

Republican Voter Registration in Bay Area Cities, All Cities



Rank City Total voters Registered Republicans
Percentage
of voters that
are
Republican

1Atherton 4, 937 2, 613 52.9%
2Hillsborough 6, 905 3, 517 50.9%
3Danville 25, 116 12, 613 50.2%
4Belvedere 1, 472 709 48.2%
5Monte Sereno 2, 422 1, 122 46.3%
6Clayton 6, 938 3, 169 45.7%
7Moraga 9, 716 4, 295 44.2%
8Woodside 3, 752 1, 654 44.1%
9Los Altos Hills 5, 806 2, 550 43.9%
10Saratoga 19, 584 8, 489 43.3%
11Solano Unincorporated Area 9, 977 4, 322 43.3%
12San Ramon 24, 658 10, 534 42.7%
13Dixon 7, 243 3, 007 41.5%
14Pleasanton 35, 259 14, 557 41.3%
15Orinda 12, 091 4, 986 41.2%
16Rio Vista 3, 232 1, 324 41.0%
17Livermore 39, 795 16, 252 40.8%
18Lafayette 15, 327 6, 202 40.5%
19Brentwood 14, 993 6, 039 40.3%
20Los Altos 19, 262 7, 742 40.2%
21Walnut Creek 39, 759 15, 962 40.1%
22Portola Valley 3, 310 1, 324 40.0%
23Napa Unincorporated Area 15, 673 6, 240 39.8%
24Ross 1, 605 628 39.1%
25Los Gatos 19, 049 7, 405 38.9%
26Morgan Hill 17, 290 6, 592 38.1%
27Vacaville 37, 711 14, 297 37.9%
28Dublin 14, 399 5, 145 35.7%
29St. Helena 3, 072 1, 086 35.4%
30Contra Costa Unincorporated Area 74, 053 25, 582 34.5%
31Windsor 11, 561 3, 926 34.0%
32Tiburon 5, 595 1, 837 32.8%
33Fairfield 39, 491 12, 819 32.5%



we only hold the majority in those three cities, yet, if democrats expect california to vote democrat, they need to get the bay to carry the state, old news.

California voting trends, 2005


San Francisco Bay Area
With the findings of this study, the San Francisco Bay Area can now officially be
designated the most liberal region in the country. With three cities in the top ten liberal list –
Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco – no other region comes close to matching the Bay Area.
In addition to Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, other Bay Area cities rank highly
on the national liberal scale. Rounding out the major Bay Area cities ranking on the national
liberal list are: Daly City 30, Hayward 33, Vallejo 41, Santa Rosa 57, Sunnyvale 62, Fremont 64,
and San Jose 74. Even Concord, the most conservative major city in the Bay Area, comes in at
79 on the national liberal list, making it more liberal than cites such as Austin, Tacoma, Miami
and Las Vegas.
San Francisco has long been tagged as the most liberal city in the country, however
BACVR research now shatters this myth. San Francisco ranks a distant ninth place on the list of
America’s most liberal cities, falling behind lesser know cities such as Gary, Indiana and
Newark, New Jersey. San Francisco is not even the most liberal city in the Bay Area, ranking
below Berkeley and Oakland.
As an infamous site of numerous political protests and demonstrations during the 1960s
and 70s, Berkeley continues to maintain its reputation as a hotbed of left-wing activism, being
the most liberal city in California and the third most liberal in the nation. The University of
California at Berkeley serves as a magnet for left-wing students and professors. Additionally, the liberal atmosphere draws the similarly minded from other Bay Area communities, creating a self-
selecting, extremely left-wing population.
Oakland, long in the shadow of San Francisco, emerges with a surprising showing,
ranking as more liberal than its larger neighbor across the Bay. Combining an ethnically diverse
population, the plurality being African American, with pockets of upper-middle class ideological
liberals, Oakland ranks as the fifth most liberal city in America.
Southern California
Cities in Southern California, on the other hand, are almost split exactly in half between
liberal and conservative. Out of thirty-nine cities, twenty are considered liberal and nineteen are
considered conservative. These same cities have an average conservative percentage of 48.51%
and a liberal percentage of 51.49%, making the overall difference only 2.98%. Bakersfield,
Orange, and Escondido top the conservative list with percentages over 64% as conservative.
Inglewood, Los Angeles, and El Monte are the top three liberal cities in Southern California with
liberal percentages above 69%.






















http://www.votingresearch.org/Reports.html



there you go, that site is awesome!!!

[JoshuaSantos]

Someone should post the 2010 census data here.