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Santa Rosa, CA
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Santa Rosa profile


Living in Santa Rosa



Santa Rosa is a relatively large city located in the state of California. With a population of 177,181 people and 48 constituent neighborhoods, Santa Rosa is the 25th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Santa Rosa are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.90% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

The population of Santa Rosa is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.35% of adults in Santa Rosa have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Santa Rosa in 2018 was $41,880, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,520 for a family of four. However, Santa Rosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Santa Rosa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Santa Rosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Santa Rosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Santa Rosa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.99% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Santa Rosa include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

In addition, Santa Rosa has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.11%).

The most common language spoken in Santa Rosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.