San Juan Capistrano is a medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 33,945 people and five constituent neighborhoods, San Juan Capistrano is the 219th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities, San Juan Capistrano isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Juan Capistrano are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Juan Capistrano is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Juan Capistrano who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.98%), sales jobs (14.78%), and management occupations (11.70%).

In addition, San Juan Capistrano 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.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of San Juan Capistrano are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

San Juan Capistrano is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

San Juan Capistrano Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, San Juan Capistrano 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: 30.74% of adults in San Juan Capistrano have a college degree.

The per capita income in San Juan Capistrano in 2000 was $29,926, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,704 for a family of four. However, San Juan Capistrano contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Juan Capistrano is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Juan Capistrano home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in San Juan Capistrano is White, followed by Asian. San Juan Capistrano also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.98% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in San Juan Capistrano include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

In addition, San Juan Capistrano has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (23.66%).

The most common language spoken in San Juan Capistrano is English. Some people also speak Spanish.