Sacramento is a large coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 407,075 people and 105 constituent neighborhoods, Sacramento is the seventh largest community in California.

Sacramento is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sacramento is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sacramento who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.86%), sales jobs (9.74%), and management occupations (8.09%).

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

One thing noticeable about Sacramento is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Sacramento is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Sacramento a great place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun. In fact, Sacramento is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

One of the nice things about Sacramento 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.

Sacramento Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Sacramento is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 23.95% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sacramento in 2000 was $18,721, which is middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,884 for a family of four.

Sacramento is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sacramento home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sacramento is White, followed by Asian. Sacramento also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.61% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Sacramento include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

In addition, Sacramento has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.30%).

The languages spoken by people in Sacramento 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 Sacramento is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, and Miao, Hmong.