Updated: May 30, 2023 / 09:09 AM.
Source: kron4news.
Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau breaks down the largest racial group in each of the nine Bay Area counties. The data, released on May 27th in a report from the 2020 Census, is divided into subcategories, including age, sex and race.
Contra Costa (27%), Napa (35.4%), San Mateo (25%), Santa Clara (25.2%), Solano (28.3%) and Sonoma (28.9%).
The Bay Area’s population is 7,765,640, and the largest racial group is white people at 39.2% (3,047,707), according to the latest U.S. Census data.
The region’s second-largest group is Asians at approximately 27.9% (2,171,656).
Here’s the breakdown showing each Bay Area county’s largest and second-largest racial group:
Alameda County
Asian: 32.4% (545,261)
White: 31.1% (523,836)
Total population (all races): 1,682,353
Contra Costa County
White: 43% (501,697)
Hispanic: 27% (314,900)
Total population: 1,165,927
Marin County
White: 68.4% (179,377)
Hispanic: 18.8% (49,410)
Total population: 262,321
Napa County
White: 55.2% (76,158)
Hispanic: 35.4% (48,829)
Total population: 138,019
San Francisco County
White: 41.3% (361,382)
Asian: 33.9% (296,505)
Total population: 873,965
San Mateo County
White: 39.3% (300,188)
Asian: 30.1% (230,242)
Total population: 764,442
Santa Clara County
Asian: 39.2% (759,030)
White: 32.2% (622,617)
Total population: 1,936,259
Solano County
White: 38.8% (175,768)
Hispanic: 28.3% (128,155)
Total population: 453,491
Sonoma County
White: 62.7% (306,684)
Hispanic: 28.9% (141,438)
Total population: 488,863
About census:
Since the US Census does not count the Bay Area as its own singular entity, KRON4 compiled the data by combining numbers from all nine Bay Area counties. That is how the Bay Area area’s total population was calculated.
U.S. Census Day was on April 1, 2020. The census is taken every 10 years. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the census had to make operational adjustments in its counting and data gathering.