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San Francisco, California

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The 2000 Census showed that San Francisco had a population of 776,733 people ^<1>. This represents 2.28% of the total population of California, making it the state's 4th most populous community.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated.

Year	Population	Change Since 2000	Year-to-Year Change
2008	808,976	+4.15%	+1.23% since 2007
2007	799,185	+2.89%	+1.63% since 2006
2006	786,367	+1.24%	+1.26% since 2005
2005	776,614
2004	772,417	-0.56%	-0.25% since 2003
2003	774,359	-0.31%	-0.57% since 2002
2002	778,773	+0.26%	-0.72% since 2001
2001	784,385	+0.99%	+0.99% since 2000
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2000	776,733	The Last Census

Below is a list of similarily sized communities (while rank is based on the 2000 Census, the population shown is estimated for 2008):

Rank in 2000	Community	Direction	Distance ^<2>	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
1	Los Angeles	SE	359 mi [577 km]	3,833,995	3.77% increase
2	San Diego	SE	470 mi [756 km]	1,279,329	4.57% increase
3	San Jose	SE	68 mi [109.4 km]	948,279	5.96% increase
-4-	San Francisco			808,976	4.15% increase
5	Long Beach	SE	381 mi [613 km]	463,789	0.49% increase
6	Fresno	E	184 mi [296.1 km]	476,050	11.32% increase
7	Sacramento	NE	99 mi [159.3 km]	463,794	13.95% increase

San Francisco had 346,527 Housing Units ^<3> at the time of the 2000 Census.

The 2000 Census shows that San Francisco has a total area of 231.9 square miles [600 km²]^<4>. Of this total, 46.69 square miles [120.9 km²]185.2 square miles [479.7 km²]).

Using the above population and land area values, San Francisco had a 2000 population density of 16,634 people per square mile [6,422 people/km²], making it the state's 6th most densely populated area.

San Francisco County

The coastal city of San Francisco is located in San Francisco County and is the county seat.

The county had a population of 777,532 people at the 2000 Census. With it's population of 776,733 people, San Francisco contained 99.9% of the San Francisco County total.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for San Francisco County.

Population Rings

To help identify the number of people who live in San Francisco and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on San Francisco. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<5>

Radius	No of Communities	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
5 mi [8 km]	1	808,976	4.15% increase
25 mi [40 km]	1	808,976	4.15% increase
30 mi [48 km]	16	1,139,797	2.52% increase

US Census QuickFacts

The Census Bureau has created documents containing demographic information called QuickFacts. Although they don't create QuickFacts for all communities, they do have one for San Francisco. Not only does the QuickFact have details about San Francisco, it also contains a comparison between San Francisco and the state of California.

Click here for the San Francisco QuickFact (QF-0667000).

The following communities are nearby San Francisco and also have Census QuickFacts:

Community	Census QuickFact	Direction	Distance	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
Daly City	QF-0617918	E	26 mi [41.84 km]	101,514	2.03% decrease
Pacifica	QF-0654806	E	26 mi [41.84 km]	37,739	1.7% decrease
San Bruno	QF-0665028	E	29 mi [46.67 km]	40,315	0.37% increase

For more about neighboring communities, please visit our Neighborhood Page for San Francisco.

A Census Quickfact is available for San Francisco County (QF-06075).

Miscellaneous Information

The Federal government has assigned identifying codes to each community, county and state. The following FIPS codes apply to San Francisco:

	State Code:	06 (California)
	County Code:	075 (San Francisco County)
	Place Code:	67000 (San Francisco)

	State & County Code:	06075 (California/San Francisco County)

	State & Place Code:	0667000 (California/San Francisco)

San Francisco is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and in Division #9 (the Pacific Division).

For more information about various Federal Codes, please visit our Misc. Page for San Francisco.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
California ^<6>

Search for Local Businesses

People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) San Francisco. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around San Francisco:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on San Francisco? Please visit the Map Page for San Francisco.

Footnotes

<1>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<2>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between San Francisco and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<3>	A Housing Unit is a broad term for those places where people live, whether occupied or temporarily vacant, such as a house, an apartment, a mobile home, or an area that is considered as a separate living quarter. Separate living quarters (consisting of one or more rooms) are considered to be those places where people live, sleep and eat separately from others and that have access to the outside (either directly or by a shared hallway). - Return to Citation
<4>	The area value has been supplied by the US Census Bureau and it can be different than the geographic boundaries of San Francisco. The value given by the Census Bureau reflects their statistical (or sampling) requirements. For example, if there is a cluster of people living just outside of the community's official boundary, the Census-defined area might be expanded to include that group of people. - Return to Citation
<5>	The communities in our count are those provided by the 2000 Census, so keep in mind that our population rings will only include the people living in those communities. Smaller communities usually don't participate directly in the Census and therefore they won't be included. While our count is a close approximation, it shouldn't be considered as a complete or accurate count. - Return to Citation
<6>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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