San Rafael, CA
San Rafael is a larger medium-sized coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of California. With a population of 61,271 people and 13 constituent neighborhoods, San Rafael is the 149th largest community in California. Find Out More About San Rafael Below
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San Rafael home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but San Rafael real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
San Rafael is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.45% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, San Rafael is a city of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Rafael who work in management occupations (15.01%), sales jobs (10.58%), and office and administrative support (7.85%).
Of important note, San Rafael is also a city of artists. San Rafael has more artists, designers, and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape San Rafael’s character.
Also of interest is that San Rafael has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.76% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
San Rafael is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or to take in the scenery.
Like elsewhere in America, most people in San Rafael use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of San Rafael‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the bus. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and requires fewer highways to get them there.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to San Rafael, you’ll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. San Rafael is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 52.19% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in San Rafael in 2018 was $56,168, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $224,672 for a family of four. However, San Rafael contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
San Rafael is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Rafael home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Rafael residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. San Rafael also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in San Rafael include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
San Rafael also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 27.35%.