Emeryville, CA real estate and demographic information

About Emeryville

Emeryville is a somewhat small coastal city (i.e. on the ocean, a bay, or inlet) located in the state of California. With a population of 10,214 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Emeryville is the 416th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Emeryville are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Emeryville is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 92.44% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Emeryville is a city of professionals, managers and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Emeryville who work in management occupations (14.85%), business and financial occupations (9.22%) and sales jobs (9.20%).

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

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.09% 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.

For a small city, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Emeryville. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Emeryville.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Emeryville is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Emeryville is also nautical, which means that parts of it are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and bays. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

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

Emeryville Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Emeryville, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Emeryville is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 67.66% 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 Emeryville in 2010 was $52,272, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $209,088 for a family of four. However, Emeryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Emeryville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Emeryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Emeryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Emeryville include Irish, English, German, Italian and European.

In addition, Emeryville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (27.62%).

The languages spoken by people in Emeryville are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Emeryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Indic languages.