White Americans in San Francisco

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Ethnicity in the San Francisco Bay Area

White people are the largest racial group in the San Francisco Bay Area. Whites makeup 39.2% of the Bay Area’s population.[1]

White Americans made up about 51% of San Francisco’s population in July 2022. That’s down from 53% in 2019. In 2010, about 55% of city residents were white.[2]

There is a Irish community in San Francisco.[3][4]

There is a French community in San Francisco.[5]

There is also a Italian community in North Beach.[6] There is also a Italian community in the Santa Clara Valley.[7]

There is a Greek community in San Francisco.[8]

There is a Russian community in San Francisco.[9]

Ross, Belvedere, Mill Valley, and Los Gatos are the most white segregated neighborhoods in San Francisco.[10]

San Francisco saw the lowest drop of the white population among the San Francisco Bay Area counties at 2.8 percentage points.[11]

Italians are the dominant European minority in San Francisco, followed by Germans, Irish, and the British.[12]

Whites makeup 50.8%‘s of San Francisco County’s population.[13]

There is a Portuguese community in Little Portugal, San Jose.[14]

The white population in San Francisco has been declining.[15]

History

The Spanish, the Portuguese and the English were the first Europeans to visit the San Francisco area.[16] Spanish explorers were the first Europeans to see the Bay of San Francisco.[17]

In the year 1870, 41.5% of San Francisco’s white population was foreign-born, but that percentage had dropped to 30.4% by the year 1900. Most of the white people had immigrated from Ireland, Germany, England, Scotland, Wales, Scandinavia and Italy.[18]

The city became home to a variety of white ethnic and religious groups, including Irish, Italian Catholics and a substantial German Jewish community.[19]

San Francisco's population before World War II was primarily white.[20]

European migration increased in the late nineteenth century in San Francisco, bringing large numbers of Irish, Italians as well as Russian immigrants and German Jews immigrated to San Francisco.[21]

English, Dutch, French, Germans, Scandinavians, and Swiss settlers came to the San Francisco Bay Area to become farmers and merchants.[22]

Neighborhoods

The neighborhoods that have the highest percentage of non-Hispanic white residents are Marina (78.2%), Cow Hollow (76.8%), Parnassus - Ashbury (74.1%), Eureka Valley - Dolores Heights - Castro (73.8%), and Noe Valley (72.0%).[23]

The neighborhoods with the lowest percentage of non-Hispanic white residents are Visitacion Valley (5.5%) and Silver Terrace (7.0%).

Education

White students make up only 12.9% of San Francisco public school students, despite white people constituting 41.6% of the city's population. Although this discrepancy is explained somewhat by white residents being older on average than residents of other ethnic groups, the more important reason is that white students are disproportionately likely to be enrolled in private school. This is increasingly the case in higher levels of education, with only 8.9% of the public high school population being white.[24]

See also

References

  1. ^ US Census breakdown: The largest racial group in each Bay Area county
  2. ^ San Francisco on Verge of Becoming Majority-Minority City
  3. ^ IRISH San Francisco
  4. ^ Irish San Francisco.
  5. ^ French San Francisco.
  6. ^ San Francisco's first Italian Americans flocked to the Excelsior, not North Beach
  7. ^ "Italians in the Santa Clara Valley".
  8. ^ Greeks in San Francisco.
  9. ^ Russian San Francisco.
  10. ^ The Most Segregated Cities and Neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area
  11. ^ [1]
  12. ^ People of San Francisco
  13. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: San Francisco County, California".
  14. ^ "The Portuguese in San Jose".
  15. ^ "SF Hispanic population only ethnic, racial group to climb last year".
  16. ^ The Discovery of San Francisco Bay (1542-1769)
  17. ^ DK Eyewitness Travel Guide San Francisco & Northern California.
  18. ^ Cities in American Political History. p. 330.
  19. ^ "Texas Vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America".
  20. ^ The Streets of San Francisco: Policing and the Creation of a Cosmopolitan Liberal Politics, 1950-1972. p. 5.
  21. ^ Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco.
  22. ^ "Historical Gems of the San Francisco Bay Area: A Guide to Museums, Historical Sites, History Parks, and Historical Homes".
  23. ^ "The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States - Statistical Atlas".
  24. ^ "Where Are All the White People in San Francisco Public Schools?".


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