Demographics for Santa Clara County

Educational Attainment

College: Associates Degree 7.53%

College: Bachelor's Degree 24.50%

College: Graduate Degree 16.78%

College: Some College, No Degree 20.03%

School: 9th to 11th grade no diploma 6.77%

School: Grade K - 9 8.19%

School: High School Graduate 16.20%

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Marital Status

Divorced 8.55%

Never Married 30.19%

Now Married 50.12%

Separated 6.37%

Widowed 4.68%

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Population

Population 1,682,585

Percent Female 49.3%

Percent Male 50.7%

Total Households 565,863

Average Household Size 2.97

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Income

Median Household Income $74,493

Average Household Income $96,293

Per Capita Income $32,384

$ 0 - $9,999 18.1%

$ 10,000 - $14,999 8.6%

$ 15,000 - $19,999 7.4%

$ 20,000 - $29,999 14.9%

$ 30,000 - $39,999 13.9%

$ 40,000 - $49,999 10.7%

$ 50,000 - $74,999 16.7%

$ 75,000 - $99,999 5.3%

$100,000 + 4.5%

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Employment by Industry

Accommodation and food services 4.5%

Administrative and support and waste management service 3.9%

Agriculture forestry fishing and hunting 0.5%

Arts entertainment and recreation 1.3%

Construction 5.0%

Educational services 7.2%

Finance and insurance 2.7%

Health care and social assistance 7.5%

Information 4.6%

Management of companies and enterprises 0.0%

Manufacturing 27.5%

Mining 0.0%

Other services (except public administration) 3.6%

Professional scientific and technical services 11.6%

Public administration 2.5%

Real estate and rental and leasing 1.8%

Retail trade 9.9%

Transportation and warehousing 2.4%

Utilities 0.4%

Wholesale trade 3.0%

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Occupation

Aircraft and traffic control occupations 0.0%

Architects surveyors cartographers and engineers 5.7%

Arts design entertainment sports and media occupation 2.3%

Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance occupat 2.8%

Business operations specialists 3.0%

Community and social services occupations 1.0%

Computer and mathematical occupations 8.8%

Construction trades workers 3.3%

Drafters engineering and mapping technicians 1.3%

Education training and library occupations 4.9%

Extraction workers 0.0%

Farmers and farm managers 0.1%

Farming fishing and forestry occupations 0.4%

Financial specialists 2.7%

Fire fighting prevention and law enforcement workers 0.5%

Food preparation and serving related occupations 3.3%

Health diagnosing and treating practitioners and tech 2.4%

Health technologists and technicians 0.8%

Healthcare support occupations 0.8%

Installation maintenance and repair occupations 2.8%

Personal care and service occupations 2.2%

Legal occupations 1.1%

Life physical and social science occupations 1.6%

Management occupations except farmers and farm manage 12.9%

Material moving workers 1.4%

Motor vehicle operators 1.6%

Office and administrative support occupations 13.1%

Production 8.1%

Protective Service Occupations 0.7%

Rail water and other transportation occupations 0.1%

Sales and related occupations 9.6%

Supervisors construction and extraction workers 0.4%

Supervisors transportation and material moving worker 0.1%

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Means of transportation

Workers Age 16+ 845,557

Bicycle 1.2%

Bus or trolley bus 2.6%

Carpooled 12.2%

Drove alone 77.4%

Ferryboat 0.0%

Motorcycle 0.3%

Other means 0.6%

Railroad 0.6%

Streetcar or trolley car 0.2%

Subway or elevated 0.1%

Taxicab 0.0%

Walked 1.8%

Worked at home 3.1%

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