About Rancho San Diego

Rancho San Diego is a medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 20,043 people and just one neighborhood, Rancho San Diego is the 311st largest community in California.

Rancho San Diego is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.68% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rancho San Diego is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rancho San Diego who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.86%), sales jobs (13.20%), and management occupations (12.40%).

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

Because there are quite a few people attending college in Rancho San Diego, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Rancho San Diego provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.

In addition, Rancho San Diego 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.

For most residents of Rancho San Diego, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97.9% of people in Rancho San Diego drive alone to work on most days, making Rancho San Diego a very car-oriented town. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Rancho San Diego's landscape.

As is often the case in a small town, Rancho San Diego doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Rancho San Diego Information and Demographics

The population of Rancho San Diego is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.45% of adults in Rancho San Diego have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rancho San Diego in 2000 was $29,834, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,336 for a family of four. However, Rancho San Diego contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Rancho San Diego is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rancho San Diego home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rancho San Diego is White, followed by Asian. Rancho San Diego also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.67% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Rancho San Diego include German, English, Irish, Italian, Assyrian-Chaldean-Syriac, and Iraqi.

The most common language spoken in Rancho San Diego is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.