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Santa Clara, CA
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Santa Clara profile


Living in Santa Clara



Santa Clara is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 126,930 people and 26 associated neighborhoods, Santa Clara is the 46th largest community in California.

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

Also of interest is that Santa Clara has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 21.94% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

One thing noticeable about Santa Clara, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That’s because Santa Clara is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Santa Clara a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Santa Clara, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Santa Clara is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 64.64% 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 Santa Clara in 2022 was $78,084, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $312,336 for a family of four.

Santa Clara is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Santa Clara home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Santa Clara residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Santa Clara also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.26% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Santa Clara include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Portuguese.

In addition, Santa Clara has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (45.10%).

The most common language spoken in Santa Clara is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Langs. of India.