About Belvedere Tiburon

Belvedere Tiburon is a somewhat small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 13,119 people and just one neighborhood, Belvedere Tiburon is the 375th largest community in California.

Belvedere Tiburon is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.73% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Belvedere Tiburon is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belvedere Tiburon who work in management occupations (24.66%), sales jobs (15.79%), and business and financial occupations (10.15%).

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

Also of interest is that Belvedere Tiburon 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: 12.71% 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.

Belvedere Tiburon, while not large, also appears to be attractive to some younger, educated professionals, who help shape the character of the town.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Belvedere Tiburon is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

One of the nice things about Belvedere Tiburon is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

One downside of living in Belvedere Tiburon, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.53 minutes every day commuting to work.

Belvedere Tiburon Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Belvedere Tiburon is a pretty powerful place. 69.66% of the adults in Belvedere Tiburon have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Belvedere Tiburon in 2000 was $86,992, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $347,968 for a family of four. However, Belvedere Tiburon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Belvedere Tiburon home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Belvedere Tiburon is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Belvedere Tiburon include English, Irish, German, Italian, Russian, Swedish, Scottish, British, European, French, Iranian, and Polish.

In addition, Belvedere Tiburon has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.35%).

The most common language spoken in Belvedere Tiburon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.