Rancho Santa Fe is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,156 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rancho Santa Fe is the 605th largest community in California.

Rancho Santa Fe home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Rancho Santa Fe real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Of important note, Rancho Santa Fe is also a town of artists. Rancho Santa Fe has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rancho Santa Fe’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Rancho Santa Fe telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.61% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Because of many things, Rancho Santa Fe is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Rancho Santa Fe really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rancho Santa Fe perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Being a small town, Rancho Santa Fe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Rancho Santa Fe, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Rancho Santa Fe is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 70.21% 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 Rancho Santa Fe in 2022 was $117,291, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $469,164 for a family of four.

Rancho Santa Fe is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rancho Santa Fe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rancho Santa Fe residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Rancho Santa Fe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rancho Santa Fe include English, German, Irish, European, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Rancho Santa Fe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.