Sunnyvale is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 131,905 people and 25 constituent neighborhoods, Sunnyvale is the 34th largest community in California.

Sunnyvale is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.98% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sunnyvale is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunnyvale who work in computer science and math (17.43%), management occupations (12.92%), and office and administrative support jobs (11.75%).

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

One thing noticeable about Sunnyvale, although not a huge city, is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Sunnyvale 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 Sunnyvale a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Sunnyvale 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.

One of the nice things about Sunnyvale 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.

Sunnyvale Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Sunnyvale is a pretty powerful place. 50.78% of the adults in Sunnyvale have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Sunnyvale in 2000 was $36,524, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,096 for a family of four. However, Sunnyvale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sunnyvale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sunnyvale home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sunnyvale is White, followed by Asian. Sunnyvale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.24% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Sunnyvale include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Sunnyvale also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 39.41%.

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