Santee is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 53,090 people and 11 constituent neighborhoods, Santee is the 150th largest community in California.

Santee is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Santee is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Santee who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.31%), sales jobs (11.95%), and management occupations (7.67%).

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

The city of Santee is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Santee Information and Demographics

The population of Santee overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Santee, 17.02% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Santee in 2000 was $21,311, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $85,244 for a family of four.

Santee is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Santee home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Santee is White, followed by Asian. Santee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.30% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Santee include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Santee is English. Some people also speak Spanish.