About San Pedro

San Pedro is a larger medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 58,591 people and just one neighborhood, San Pedro is the 125th largest community in California.

San Pedro is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, San Pedro is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Pedro who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.38%), sales jobs (10.30%), and management occupations (7.35%).

San Pedro Information and Demographics

The citizens of San Pedro are slightly better educated than the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns, with 17.48% of adults in San Pedro having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in San Pedro in 2000 was $18,043, which is middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,172 for a family of four.

San Pedro is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Pedro home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in San Pedro is White, followed by African-American. San Pedro also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 47.75% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in San Pedro include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Croatian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of San Pedro's cultural character, accounting for 27.04% of the town's population.

The most common language spoken in San Pedro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.