Social Capital Community Benchmark Initiative
Community Highlights for the San Francisco Peninsula & Silicon Valley

[Community Highlights] [Press Release] [Survey Highlights] [Report]

Sponsors:
Peninsula Community Foundation &
Community Foundation Silicon Valley           

Media Contacts:
Debbie Ford-Scriba, Communications Manager, PCF
650/581-4312
debbie@pcf.org

Michelle McGurk, Director of Communications, CFSV
408/278-2208
mmcgurk@cfsv.org

Address:
Peninsula Community Foundation
1700 So. El Camino Real, Suite 300, San Mateo, CA 94402
www.pcf.org

Community Foundation Silicon Valley
60 S. Market Street, 10^th Floor, San Jose, CA  95113
www.cfsv.org            

Sample size:
1,500

Survey Area:
San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, plus the cities of Fremont, Newark and Union City in Alameda County

Is your survey area urban, suburban, rural?
MIXED, urban & suburban

California Department of Finance

Ethnicity:
White                          47.8%
Black                            3.8%
Asian                          24.2%
Hispanic                     24.2%
Native American         0.3%            

California Department of Finance

Age:
18-34              30%
35-49              35%
50-64              21%
65+                 14%

California Department of Finance           

Additional Information:

The San Francisco Peninsula and Silicon Valley is a diverse region in terms of population, urbanicity, and education.  It is an area of great affluence derived primarily from high tech wealth, interspersed with pockets of low-income communities.