Northern California 2010 Census results
 

Cities

3 3 San Jose city…………………………………………………. 894943.......945942.......50999.......5.7%
4 4 San Francisco city …………………………………………… 776733.......805235.......28502.......3.7%
5 6 Fresno city…………………………………………………. 427652.......494665.......67013.......15.7%
6 7 Sacramento city………………………………………………. 407018.......466488.......59470.......14.6%
8 8 Oakland city………………………………………………… 399484.......390724.......-8760....... -2.2%
13 13 Stockton city……………………………………………………. 243771.......291707.......47936.......19.7%
15 14 Fremont city……………………………………………………. 203413.......214089.......10676.......5.2%
18 17 Modesto city……………………………………………………… 188856.......201165.......12309.......6.5%

Top counties

6 5 Santa Clara County………………………………………………….. 1682585.......1781642.......99057.......5.9%
7 7 Alameda County……………………………………………. 1443741.......1510271.......66530.......4.6%
8 8 Sacramento County……………………………………………. 1223499.......1418788.......195289.......16.0%
9 9 Contra Costa County………………………………………….. 948816.......1049025.......100209.......10.6%
10 10 Fresno County……………………………………………….. 799407.......930450.......131043.......16.4%
13 11 San Francisco County……………………………………….. 776733.......805235.......28502.......3.7%
14 13 San Mateo County…………………………………………… 707161.......718451.......11290.......1.6%
15 15 San Joaquin County………………………………………….. 563598.......685306.......121708.......21.6%
16 17 Stanislaus County……………………………………………. 446997.......514453.......67456.......15.1%
17 16 Sonoma County…………………………………………… 458614.......483878.......25264.......5.5%
18 21 Tulare County…………………………………………………. 368021.......442179.......74158.......20.2%
20 18 Monterey County………………………………………………. 401762.......415057.......13295.......3.3%

Congrats to San Francisco on breaking 800k.

Oakland seems to be a case like so many other cities across the country: even though it is gentrifying in the central city, the suburbanization of minorities is affecting the overall population.

Seems that the Bay Area is another unique formation of the "urban layout". If one were to consider all of San Francisco as the "revitalized urban core" it's clear that some slow growth has occurred. Oakland has a mix of some revitalization, but it also has some project areas where poorer families have been priced out. San Jose OTOH is in a slow urban transition, but still has room for some sprawl building.

Fresno perplexes me though. I don't get what the growth motivator is for that city.

Relative cheapness, I'd assume. Same with Bakersfield, Stockton, et al.

All of San Francisco is most definitely not revitalized/gentrified...plenty of poorer people have been priced out of SF as well over the decades (to a larger extent than Oakland, seeing as SF is the larger and more expensive city...plenty of them moved from SF to Oakland in fact), and it continues to happen here. But, i guess SF still attracts enough immigrants (from every economic spectrum), singles who may not be wealthy, but who don't mind living in small spaces on tight-ass budgets, and enough upper middle class to wealthy Americans in general, to more than make up for the numbers lost from the middle class/working class.

*There are more San Franciscans today than there have ever been in the city's 235-year history

*Current population density is roughly 17,242 persons per square mile

*SF is now more populous than either Boston or Washington DC ever were

*On just a city-limits to city-limits comparison, built-out San Francisco grew faster in the 2000s than roomier cities Dallas and Los Angeles

I'm curious to do some diving into the Oakland numbers, but I suspect that the number of households still grew at a decent clip, and the drop is mostly due to household sizes shrinking.

SF's population fell right about where I thought it would.

I honestly thought this would be the year that San Jose officially hit 1 million.

When I first saw the Chicago statistics a while back, my first thought was "smaller family sizes." I thought that because the effect of family size on overall population was one of my first lessons in demography, back when I was young and perplexed by a population drop in a city I knew had seen lots of construction. My Dad worked for the city and that was their analysis. I think we're seeing this again, in city after city, from Dallas to LA to Oakland--most every home can be occupied, and new units built all over the place, but if the family sizes are dropping then the city will 'lose' people.

Some Silicon Valley companies have expanded their presence in the Sacramento area in the last decade or two. HP and Intel (in Roseville and Folsom, respectively) come to mind. Roseville exploded in the last decade and is now the center of retail and white collar jobs in the region. If it weren't for a lack of land and water, Folsom could have sprawled out even more than it already does.

Ironically, though, Apple has reduced its Sacramento-area presence (in Elk Grove).

You mean percentage-wise, right? Because LA grew by like 80 or 90K.

Obviously.

Just give Folsom time. They are currently wanting to annex open land south of Hwy 50 to add another 30k or so people. More sprawl for everyone!

For your enjoyment... ;)
http://www.folsom.ca.us/home_nav/sph..._documents.asp

If Sacramento could just annex some of the unincorporated areas that are Sacramento anyway (S Sac/Florin) and Arden Arcade..we wouldn't like like a big K anymore

Those areas plus Rosemont would add upwards of 150k to Sacramento instantly. Would be great to see that happen.

What about Marin County. What is the 2010 county population and also largest towns?

Berkeley city, CA: 112,580 (+9,758)

Really?!? I know they built some infill in town, but has the town really grown by nearly 10% since 2000.

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/...prodType=table

here in sonoma:
Santa Rosa city, CA: 167,815 (+20,220)

not too shabby!

Not too surprising in the Bay Area. SF and San Mateo are the slowest growing counties; Sacto. and Contra Costa the fastest. My surprise came from Stockton, which had good growth in spite of its recent woes.

agreed - pretty much what was expected. during the 90's sonoma county was the bay area's fastest growing county - i am glad that kind of growth here wasn't repeated.

interesting side note after some reading, sonoma county's white population decreased over 6 percent and its hispanic population grew 52%! more evidence of california's white flight.