This section compares the 50 most populous of those to each other, San Francisco, and other entities that contain or substantially overlap with San Francisco. U.S. Census Bureau. Nothing ever really changes. U.S. Census Bureau. San Francisco's War Memorial and Performing Arts Center hosts some of the most enduring performing-arts companies in the country. [277] The city employs around 27,000 workers.[278]. [163] In 2016, approximately 27% of workers were employed in professional business services; 14% in leisure and hospitality; 13% in government services; 12% in education and health care; 11% in trade, transportation, and utilities; and 8% in financial activities. It is the second incarnation of the historic venue that gained fame in the 1960s, housing the stage where now-famous musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and Jefferson Airplane first performed, fostering the San Francisco Sound. [31] San Francisco's status as the West Coast's largest city peaked between 1870 and 1900, when around 25% of California's population resided in the city proper. city.[151][152]. Crime rate is the number of crimes committed per 100,000 people. Because of its unique city-county status, the local government is able to exercise jurisdiction over certain property outside city limits. Its private golf course has hosted the U.S. Open on five occasions. Herbert Eugene Bolton wrote about the expedition camp at Mountain Lake, near the southern end of today's Presidio: "Round about were grazing deer, and scattered here and there were the antlers of large elk. San Francisco has several nicknames, including "The City by the Bay", "Golden Gate City",[238] "Frisco", "SF", "San Fran", and "Fog City", as well as older ones like "The City that Knows How", "Baghdad by the Bay", "The Paris of the West", or, as locals call it, "The City". U.S. Census Bureau. In the propose 2020-2021 budget the city budgeted $850 million for homelessness services. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prentice “Earl" Sanders, who became San Francisco's first Black police chief after working as a homicide detective on such infamous cases as … is a member of the national League of Resident Theatres. [183] The growth of national big box and formula retail chains into the city has been made intentionally difficult by political and civic consensus. The non-profit City CarShare opened in 2001. [109] The lowest recorded temperature was 27 °F (−3 °C) on December 11, 1932. 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An emigration of middle-class families has left the city with a lower proportion of children than any other large American city,[147] with the dog population cited as exceeding the child population of 115,000, in 2018. There is also Lombard Street, known for its "crookedness" and extensive views. [62] Amadeo Giannini's Bank of Italy, later to become Bank of America, provided loans for many of those whose livelihoods had been devastated. [262] They have won six championships,[263] and made five consecutive NBA Finals from 2015 to 2019, winning three of them. San Francisco is part of the 12th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States by population, with 4.7 million people, and the fourth-largest by economic output, with GDP of $592 billion in 2019. [148] San Francisco's tallest hill, Mount Davidson, is 928 feet (283 m) high and is capped with a 103-foot (31 m) tall cross built in 1934. [187], Like many U.S. cities, San Francisco once had a significant manufacturing sector employing nearly 60,000 workers in 1969, but nearly all production left for cheaper locations by the 1980s. [314], Just under 30% of the city's school-age population attends one of San Francisco's more than 100 private or parochial schools, compared to a 10% rate nationwide. American Community Survey, 2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Table B19013. [56] The first North American plague epidemic was the San Francisco plague of 1900–1904.[57]. [244] This was an increase of more than 17% over the 2017 count of 6,858 people. Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. [136], San Francisco has several prominent Chinese, Mexican, and Filipino ethnic neighborhoods including Chinatown and the Mission District. Buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. Every weekday, more than 560,000 people travel on Muni’s 69 bus routes and more than 140,000 customers ride the Muni Metro light rail system. [10] This ultimately leads to increased quality of life and work for San Francisco residents, employers, employees and visitors. [33] Contemporary accounts reported that 498 people lost their lives, though modern estimates put the number in the several thousands. The 2010 United States Census reported that San Francisco had a population of 805,235. The members of the Board of Supervisors are elected as representatives of specific districts within the city. [198] Itineraries from San Francisco usually include round trip cruises to Alaska and Mexico. killings at historic lows", "San Francisco crime rates and statistics", "SF cops say they notch 2 arrests in last 2 homicides of 2016. [274] Lee (who won 2 elections to remain mayor) was temporarily replaced by San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed after he died on December 12, 2017. [233] SF Weekly is the city's alternative weekly newspaper. [172] San Francisco became a center of Internet start-up companies during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s and the subsequent social media boom of the late 2000s (decade). Many piers remained derelict for years until the demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway reopened the downtown waterfront, allowing for redevelopment. California Institute of Integral Studies, founded in 1968, offers a variety of graduate programs in its Schools of Professional Psychology & Health, and Consciousness and Transformation. [citation needed], Temperatures reach or exceed 80 °F (27 °C) on an average of only 21 and 23 days a year at downtown and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), respectively. city. [18], White people of European descent, first the Spanish, gradually displaced the native people of the area that would eventually become San Francisco. [289] In 1977, an ongoing rivalry between two Chinese gangs led to a shooting attack at the Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown, which left 5 people dead and 11 wounded. The San Francisco Opera is second in size only to New York City's, Sanders, Adrienne, "S.F. Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e. CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Al Jazeera America, Russia Today, and CCTV America also have regional news bureaus in San Francisco. The War Memorial Opera House houses the San Francisco Opera, the second-largest opera company in North America[242] as well as the San Francisco Ballet, while the San Francisco Symphony plays in Davies Symphony Hall. State Route 82 enters San Francisco from the south as Mission Street, and terminates shortly thereafter at its junction with 280. [34] The explosion of jobs drew many people, especially African Americans from the South, to the area. This 1852 figure is from a state Census. Older residents (those 65 and over) are more likely to be in poverty than other age groups. [294], The city operates 22 public "pit stop" toilets. [45], The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers (known as "forty-niners", as in "1849"). [1] San Fran and Frisco are only used outside of San Francisco itself and disparaged by residents.[239][240][241]. The legacy of the California Gold Rush turned San Francisco into the principal banking and finance center of the West Coast in the early twentieth century. Chinese immigrants made the city a polyglot culture, drawn to "Old Gold Mountain", creating the city's Chinatown quarter. Geographically, Oakland Airport is approximately the same distance from downtown San Francisco as SFO, but due to its location across San Francisco Bay, it is greater driving distance from San Francisco. Abutting Russian Hill and North Beach is San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest Chinatown in North America. Whether you're searching for a 5K or training for a marathon, we have runners of all abilities and disciplines covered. There are more than 200 miles (320 km) of bicycle paths, lanes and bike routes in the city. After declining in the 1970s and 1980s, the Filipino community in the city has experienced a significant resurgence. 5,180 of the people were living unsheltered on the streets and in parks. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. It became an iconic symbol of San Francisco, and is still a staple of city life today. [342] [323], Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), a regional Rapid Transit system, connects San Francisco with the East Bay and San Jose through the underwater Transbay Tube. San Francisco is located on the West Coast of the United States at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. The major daily newspaper in San Francisco is the San Francisco Chronicle, which is currently Northern California's most widely circulated newspaper. [174][175][176] In 2004, the city approved a payroll tax exemption for biotechnology companies[177] to foster growth in the Mission Bay neighborhood, site of a second campus and hospital of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). [89] Most of the city's natural watercourses, such as Islais Creek and Mission Creek, have been culverted and built over, although the Public Utilities Commission is studying proposals to daylight or restore some creeks. [275], The municipal budget for fiscal year 2015–16 was $8.99 billion,[276] and is one of the largest city budgets in the United States. [58] More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all of the downtown core. [138], Of all major cities in the United States, San Francisco has the second-highest percentage of residents with a college degree, behind only Seattle. Development of the Port of San Francisco and the establishment in 1869 of overland access to the eastern U.S. rail system via the newly completed Pacific Railroad (the construction of which the city only reluctantly helped support[53]) helped make the Bay Area a center for trade. [330] Due to its unique geography, and the freeway revolts of the late 1950s,[331] [202], Since the 1990s, the demand for skilled information technology workers from local startups and nearby Silicon Valley has attracted white-collar workers from all over the world and created a high standard of living in San Francisco. In 2012, San Francisco was ranked No. San Francisco has not voted more than 20% for a Republican presidential or senatorial candidate since 1988. It is also part of the greater 12-county San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area, whose population is over 8.75 million, making it the fifth-largest in the United States as of July 1, 2016. Boating, sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing are among the popular activities on San Francisco Bay, and the city maintains a yacht harbor in the Marina District. 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Over 50% of San Franciscans have a 4-year university degree, ranking the city among the highest levels of education in the country and world. For other uses, see, Consolidated city-county in California, US, Consolidated city-county in California, United States, Location within the contiguous United States. Despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.3%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.4%. QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more. Incidents of suspicious activity and vehicle theft take place teh most frequently in this area. Because of its sharp topography and maritime influences, San Francisco exhibits a multitude of distinct microclimates. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, during the Mexican–American War, and Captain John B. Montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Supporters of the bill, including its author, state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), note that black adults represent one-quarter of all felony drug arrests in California, despite comprising just 5 percent of the state population. [29] San Francisco was ranked 8th in the world and 2nd in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of September 2020.[30]. None of the victims in this attack were gang members. The San Francisco Examiner, once the cornerstone of William Randolph Hearst's media empire and the home of Ambrose Bierce, declined in circulation over the years and now takes the form of a free daily tabloid, under new ownership. The line runs under Market Street to Civic Center where it turns south to the Mission District, the southern part of the city, and through northern San Mateo County, to the San Francisco International Airport, and Millbrae.[322]. [279] There were about 134 rapes, 3,142 robberies, and about 2,139 assaults. San Francisco later celebrated its regained grandeur with a World's fair, the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939–40, creating Treasure Island in the middle of the bay to house it. White students[which?] [316], San Francisco has nearly 300 preschool programs primarily operated by Head Start, San Francisco Unified School District, private for-profit, private non-profit and family child care providers. 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[7], San Francisco is the traditional focal point of the San Francisco Bay Area and forms part of the five-county San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 4.6 million people. Cycling is a popular mode of transportation in San Francisco, with 75,000 residents commuting by bicycle each day. It was the O'Shaughnessy Dam, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, and Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct that would have the largest effect on San Francisco. This moderates temperature swings and produces a remarkably mild year-round climate with little seasonal temperature variation. Further development is taking place just to the south in Mission Bay area, a former railroad yard, which now has a second campus of the University of California, San Francisco and Chase Center, which opened in 2019 as the new home of the Golden State Warriors.[95]. Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed. 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[127] In 2013 (a "La Niña" year), a record low 5.59 in (142 mm) of rainfall was recorded at downtown San Francisco, where records have been kept since 1849. Higher than average crime. It was in this period that the island of Alcatraz, a former military stockade, began its service as a federal maximum security prison, housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone, and Robert Franklin Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. [citation needed]. [207] However, due to the exceptionally high cost of living, many of the city's middle and lower-class families have been leaving the city for the outer suburbs of the Bay Area, or for California's Central Valley. Many large financial institutions, multinational banks, and venture capital firms are based in or have regional headquarters in the city. To borrow a line from another world-class Humphrey Bogart film, albeit one without a San Francisco connection, “I don’t mind a parasite; I object to a cut-rate one. [210], The international character that San Francisco has enjoyed since its founding is continued today by large numbers of immigrants from Asia and Latin America. [127] The majority of the city's black population reside within the neighborhoods of Bayview-Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley, and in the Fillmore District. First was the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, startup companies invigorated the San Francisco economy. We believe use of data and evidence can improve our operations and the services we provide. Connectivity Changes in the World City Network, 2000–2004", "Industry Employment & Labor Force – by Annual Average for San Francisco County", "Total Real Gross Domestic Product for San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (MSA)", "New Parts of Alcatraz Revealed to Public", "Biotech Jobs Germinate as San Francisco Diversifies Economy", "Forecasting San Francisco's Economic Fortunes", "New jobs, houses spur S.F. [8] The U.S. Census Bureau estimates San Francisco's population increased to 870,887 as of July 1, 2016.[1]. [322] Historically, trains operated by Southern Pacific Lines ran from San Francisco to Los Angeles, via Palo Alto and San Jose. In San Francisco, the quake severely damaged structures in the Marina and South of Market districts and precipitated the demolition of the damaged Embarcadero Freeway and much of the damaged Central Freeway, allowing the city to reclaim The Embarcadero as its historic downtown waterfront and revitalizing the Hayes Valley neighborhood. Between the years of 1999 and 2000, the job growth rate was 4.9%, creating over 50,000 jobs in technology firms and internet content production. [54] QuickFacts San Francisco city, California; United States. [237] CNET, founded 1994, and Salon.com, 1995, are based in San Francisco. While overall crime rates are down, the rise in those types of incidents may explain worries voiced from the Bayview to Chinatown, to the Sunset neighborhoods. [220] The city's GoSolarSF incentive promotes solar installations and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is rolling out the CleanPowerSF program to sell electricity from local renewable sources. [149] San Francisco had the highest rate at 7,031 per square mile, or over 344,000 total graduates in the city's 46.7 square miles (121 km2). [322] It also operates the famous cable cars,[322] which have been designated as a National Historic Landmark and are a major tourist attraction. [citation needed], Two recent decades have seen two booms driven by the internet industry. 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