San Diego is a very large coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 1,223,341 people and 203 constituent neighborhoods, San Diego is the second largest community in California.

San Diego is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, San Diego is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Diego who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.03%), sales jobs (11.37%), and management occupations (9.80%).

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

There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in San Diego, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.

In addition, San Diego is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on the local San Diego culture, lifestyle and music scene. In fact, San Diego is one of only a few big cities that are also major college towns. The combination of big city status and thousands of college students gives San Diego, on one hand, a sophisticated style, while on the other also provides a youthful feel and lots of diversions and entertainment for students. Believe it or not, San Diego is one of the biggest "college towns" in America, generating lift to the economy of the entire region, and issuing forth thousands of newly-minted college students every spring, powering the innovation economy, the arts, and a lively club scene.

Not only is San Diego a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That's because San Diego 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 San Diego 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, San Diego is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

One of the nice things about San Diego 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.

San Diego Information and Demographics

The citizens of San Diego are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.01% of adults in San Diego have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in San Diego in 2000 was $23,609, which is upper middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,436 for a family of four.

San Diego is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Diego home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in San Diego is White, followed by Asian. 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 25.38% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in San Diego include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

San Diego also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.69%.

The languages spoken by people in San Diego 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 Diego is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.