San Bruno is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 40,164 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, San Bruno is the 194th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities, San Bruno isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Bruno are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Bruno is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Bruno who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.87%), sales jobs (12.44%), and management occupations (9.36%).

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

In addition, San Bruno 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.

San Bruno Information and Demographics

The education level of San Bruno citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 26.15% of adults in San Bruno have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in San Bruno in 2000 was $26,360, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,440 for a family of four. However, San Bruno contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Bruno is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Bruno home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in San Bruno is White, followed by Asian. San Bruno also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.02% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in San Bruno include Italian, Irish, German, and English.

San Bruno also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.42%.

The languages spoken by people in San Bruno 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 San Bruno is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, and Hindi.