Santa Clara is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 102,104 people and 23 constituent neighborhoods, Santa Clara is the 55th largest community in California.

Santa Clara is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Santa Clara is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Santa Clara who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.35%), computer science and math (12.76%), and management occupations (11.51%).

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

Santa Clara is a nice balance between life in a moderately big city and the interesting diversions and culture that come from having a big college student population. The thousands of students who arrive on campus every fall will find that Santa Clara has plenty of amenities and opportunities for them, while residents of Santa Clara enjoy the lectures, music, art, and economic trickle-down that colleges typically provide. "Town and Gown" complement each other in Santa Clara!

Not only is Santa Clara a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, shaping the character of the city into a place that is geared toward, and considered attractive to, many single, educated people. Many singles consider Santa Clara a good place to live without being in a really big city, with opportunities for friendships and fun with others like themselves.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Santa Clara is also home to many people who can 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.

Santa Clara Information and Demographics

The citizens of Santa Clara are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.35% of adults in Santa Clara have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Santa Clara in 2000 was $31,755, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $127,020 for a family of four. However, Santa Clara contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Santa Clara is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Santa Clara home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Santa Clara is White, followed by Asian. Santa Clara also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.29% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Santa Clara include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Portuguese.

In addition, Santa Clara has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (34.96%).

The languages spoken by people in Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Chinese, Other Asian languages, and Other Indic languages.