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.

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Santa Clara really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Santa Clara is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Santa Clara more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Santa Clara's character and quality of life.

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, creating a decent-sized population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Santa Clara is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." While both of these categories describe educated professionals, urban sophisticates are quite a different demographic. Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Santa Clara Information and Demographics

The population of Santa Clara is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 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.