San Dimas is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 35,064 people and five constituent neighborhoods, San Dimas is the 211st largest community in California.

San Dimas is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, San Dimas is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Dimas who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.85%), sales jobs (12.93%), and management occupations (12.49%).

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

In addition, San Dimas 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.

San Dimas Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, San Dimas is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.43% of adults in San Dimas have a college degree.

The per capita income in San Dimas in 2000 was $28,321, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $113,284 for a family of four.

San Dimas is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Dimas home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in San Dimas is White, followed by Asian. San Dimas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.49% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in San Dimas include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of San Dimas's cultural character, accounting for 15.45% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in San Dimas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.