About Belvedere

Belvedere is a very small coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 2,121 people and just one neighborhood, Belvedere is the 617th largest community in California.

Belvedere is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 99.32% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Belvedere is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Belvedere who work in management occupations (31.81%), sales jobs (18.24%), and business and financial occupations (9.12%).

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

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

A relatively large number of people in Belvedere telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.35% 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.

In addition, Belvedere is home to many people who could 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.

Because of many things, Belvedere 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, Belvedere really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Belvedere perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, 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.

One of the nice things about Belvedere is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the city 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.78 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.

Even though Belvedere is a smaller city, it has many people who hop on public transportation - mostly a ferryboat - for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.

Belvedere Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Belvedere, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Belvedere is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 75.40% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Belvedere in 2000 was $113,595, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $454,380 for a family of four. However, Belvedere contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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