County profile

San Francisco, CA

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San Francisco is one city and one county at the same time, with 815K residents. On a jetty at the Marina boat harbor stands the Wave Organ, an acoustic sculpture of granite and marble salvaged from a demolished cemetery, sounded by waves against its pipes and best heard at high tide. The county leads the country on cuisines and on parks within a short walk. Homes are the counterweight, at a median of $1.34M.

Cuisine Diversity: 58: Fifty-eight distinct cuisines, a count no county in the country beats. A nonprofit incubator kitchen in the city puts new ones on the street. >99% of 3,143 counties
Park Score: 100%⁹: Every resident is within a ten-minute walk of a park, a share no county in the country beats. >99% of 1,479 counties
Seasons: 16 °F: A 16 °F spread between the warmest and the coolest month, narrower than in all but ten counties. The bright season here is the fall; by July the coast is usually under fog. <99% of 3,143 counties
Live Music: 68: Sixty-eight live music venues, and only 16 counties have more. Not every stage sells a ticket: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass has run as a free San Francisco festival for 25 years. >99% of 3,143 counties
The trade-off — Median Home Price: $1.34M⁴: The median home costs $1.34M where a typical household earns $135K, a ratio close to ten to one. Only four counties have costlier homes. >99% of 3,143 counties

San Francisco has the oldest Chinatown in North America, which was established in the 1850s in the wake of the Gold Rush. San Francisco is said to be the birthplace of several American Chinese food traditions including Chop Suey and Fortune Cookies.

Demographics and county data

Each comparison is against the US counties that publish the same measurement. Measurements where too many counties share a single value to be ranked show no comparison at all.

Abortion Regulation: Legal (Restricted)
ACT/SAT Scores: #47
Air Quality: 7.6¹
Alcohol Regulation: #45
All Occupations: $122K¹
American Indians/Alaskan Natives: ↓-1.6%
Amish, Mennonites, etc: ↓-2.4%⁷
Any Airport: 0h 28m
Any Natural Disaster: High³
Architecture & Engineering: $116K¹⁰
Art Museums: 18
Arts, Design, Sports, Media & Entertainment: $107K¹⁰
Asian Americans: ↑32.6%
Asian Language Speakers: ↑24.2%
Avalanche: none³
Average School Rating: 47.3⁶
Beergardens & Brewpubs: 20
Bike Score: 72
Blacks/African Americans: ↓-4.0%
Boating: 276
Broadband Internet: 88%
Buddhists: ↑2.1%⁷
Building & Grounds Cleaning & Maintenance: $42K¹⁰
Business & Financial Operations: $94K¹⁰
Cannabis Regulation: Legal
Cat Friendly Rentals: 41%
Catholics: ↑0.7%⁷
City Population: 874K
Climate Change Risk: 2.5
Coastal Flooding: Very Low³
Cold Wave: none³
Community & Social Service: $65K¹⁰
Commute Time: 34
Computer & Mathematical: $144K¹⁰
Construction & Extraction: $70K¹⁰
County Population: 815K
Cuisine Diversity: 58
Cycling: 50+
Dentists: 15.7
Dog Friendly Rentals: 42%
Drought: none³
Earthquakes: High³
Education, Training, & Library: $76K¹⁰
Educational Attainment: 37%
Elevation: 207'⁸
English Speakers: ↓-16.1%
Farmers Markets: 27
Farming, Fishing, & Forestry: $37K¹⁰
Fatal Dog Attacks: 0
Fatal Wildlife Attacks: 0
Fire Ants: none
Fishing: 94
Food Preparation & Serving Related: $37K¹⁰
Forests: 0%
Freshwater Access: 370
Gluten-Free Options: 39
Golf: 46
Gun Open Carry Regulation: Illegal
Hail: Very Low³
Healthcare Practitioners & Technical: $119K¹⁰
Healthcare Support: $38K¹⁰
Heat Wave: Medium³
High School Graduation Rate: 84%¹
Hiking: 805
Hindus: ↑0.3%⁷
Hispanics/Latinos: ↑5.6%
History Museums: 10
Home Ownership Rate: 38%
Homelessness: 458
Homicide Rate: 4¹
Hospitals: 8
Hurricanes: none³
Ice Storms: none³
Indo-European Language Speakers: ↑4.5%
Installation, Maintenance, & Repair: $63K¹⁰
Investment Potential: 1 / 100
Jehovah's Witnesses: ↓-0.5%⁷
Jews: ↑1.3%⁷
Landslide: Very Low³
LDS / Mormons: ↓-1.5%⁷
Legal: $154K¹⁰
Life Expectancy: 84¹
Life, Physical, & Social Science: $97K¹⁰
Lightning: Very Low³
Live Music: 68
Major Airport: 0h 28m
Major City Proximity: Major City
Major League Baseball: 0h 05m
Major League Soccer: 0h 52m
Management: $155K¹⁰
Median Age: 38 years¹¹
Median Home Price: $1.34M
Median Rental - 1 BR Apartment: $3,158
Median Rental - 2 BR Apartment: $3,769
Median Rental - 3 BR Apartment: $4,701
Median Rental - 4 BR Apartment: $4,997
Median Rental - Room: $1,820
Median Rental - Single Family Home: $3,665⁴
Median Rental - Studio Apartment: $2,584
Mental Health Providers: 92.6
Meth Labs: 0
Michelin Rated Restaurants: 3 Star
Minor League Baseball: 1h 35m
Mountains: 2,516'⁸
Multiracials: ↑2.7%
Muslims: ↑0.6%⁷
National Parks: 2h 37m
Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders: ↑0.2%
NBA Basketball: 0h 06m
NFL Football: 0h 49m
NHL Hockey: 0h 54m
Not Religious / Atheists / Agnostics: ↑21.0%
Nuclear Strike: Direct Target
Obesity Rate: 17%¹
Office & Administrative Support: $52K¹⁰
Orthodox Christians: ↑0.2%⁷
Other Language Speakers: ↑0.4%
Other Relocation Incentives: none
Park Score: 100%
People 0-9 Years Old: ↓-3.8%
People 10-19 Years Old: ↓-6.0%
People 20-29 Years Old: ↑5.2%
People 30-39 Years Old: ↑8.8%
People 40-49 Years Old: ↑2.1%
People 50-59 Years Old: ↓-1.7%
People 60-69 Years Old: ↓-2.3%
People 70-79 Years Old: ↓-2.1%
People 80+ Years Old: ↓-0.1%
Performing Arts: 4
Personal Care & Service: $42K¹⁰
Political Orientation: 93% Dems
Population Density: 18,629
Population Growth: ↓-6.3%
Poverty Rate: 10.0%
Primary Care Physicians: 15.9¹
Private/Home School Regulation: #13
Production: $49K¹⁰
Property Crime Rate: 5,506
Property Tax: 0.64%
Protective Service: $65K¹⁰
Protestants / Non-Denominationals: ↓-20.2%⁷
Rain: 24"
Regional Theatre: 11
River Flooding: none³
Sales & Related: $58K¹⁰
Sales Tax: 8.6%
Same Sex Households: ↑1.0%
Scenic Beauty: #1
Seacoast Proximity: coastal
Seasons: 16 °F
Shark Attacks: 5
Single Parent Households: ↓-3.3%
Skiing: 3h 20m
Small or Major Airport: 0h 28m
Smokers: 11%¹
Snow: 0"
Spanish Speakers: ↑4.2%
State Income Tax: 13.3%
Strong Wind: Very Low³
Summer Heat: 71 °F
Summer Mugginess: none
Sunny Days: 259
Termite Infestation: Heavy
Tobacco Regulation: #6
Top School Rating: 96.3⁶
Tornadoes: Low³
Traffic: 7.03M
Transit Score: 77
Transportation & Material Moving: $47K¹⁰
Tsunami: Low³
Typical Expenses: $204K⁵
Typical Expenses: $160K⁵
Typical Expenses: $101K⁵
Typical Expenses: $122K⁵
Typical Expenses: $84K⁵
Typical Expenses: $84K⁵
Typical Expenses: $120K⁵
Typical Expenses: $201K⁵
Typical Expenses: $128K⁵
Typical Expenses: $111K⁵
Typical Expenses: $170K⁵
Typical Expenses: $60K⁵
Unemployment Rate: 7.8%¹
Vegetarian Friendliness: 50+
Violent Crime Rate: 760²
Volcanic Activity: none³
Walk Score: 89
Water Quality: 1/4
Whites: ↓-35.9%
Wildfires: Very Low³
Windiness: 16 mph
Wineries: 18
Winter Cold: 55 °F
Winter Weather: none³

Cities

Bayview District, Chinatown, Fort Winfield Scott, Marina District, Mission District, Potrero District, Richmond District, San Francisco, Sunset District, Western Addition