Millbrae is a medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 20,727 people and six constituent neighborhoods, Millbrae is the 308th largest community in California.

Millbrae is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Millbrae is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Millbrae who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.05%), sales jobs (12.71%), and management occupations (12.68%).

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

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

One of the nice things about Millbrae 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.

Millbrae Information and Demographics

The citizens of Millbrae are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 33.79% of adults in Millbrae have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Millbrae in 2000 was $33,193, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,772 for a family of four.

Millbrae is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Millbrae home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Millbrae is White, followed by Asian. Millbrae also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.37% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Millbrae include Italian, Irish, German, English, and Greek.

In addition, Millbrae has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (34.20%).

The languages spoken by people in Millbrae 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 Millbrae is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, and Greek.