San Francisco Fast Facts

SAN FRANCISCO AND THE BAY AREA

POPULATION:

• 776,733 in San Francisco
• 6,693,600 in the nine-county Bay Area

POPULATION:

SAN FRANCISCO'S POPULATION BY RACE:

JOBS:

• Resident labor force in San Francisco: 433,300
• San Francisco jobs held by residents: 50.3%
• In-bound commuters to San Francisco: 590,503

EDUCATION:

• 81% of adults are high school graduates
• 45% of adults have bachelor's degree or higher

MASS TRANSIT:

• Average daily ridership on Muni: 751,287
• Average daily ridership on BART (regional: 295,158

CONVENTION & VISITOR INDUSTRY

• Annual visitors: 15.7 million
• Amount spent by visitors annually: $6.5 billion
• Annual hotel-tax revenues: $195 million
• Annual convention-related expenditures: $1.3 billion

RETAIL SALES:

• More than 13,000 retail establishments generate some $7.5 billion a year in San Francisco annually

BUSINESS

• 60,000 businesses in San Francisco
• More than 95% of all businesses in San Francisco employ 50 or fewer employees.

AIRPORT:

• SFO is the ninth-largest ariport in the United States
• 31 million passenger per year
• 99% of the Bay Area's international air cargo
• 67 airlines, 23 airlines with international service

PORT:

• More than 62 cruise ships call at the Port of San Francisco
• 110,000 passengers per year pass through the Port of San Francisco
• $72 billion total trade through Port of San Francisco

Information provided by San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division, and San Francisco International Airport.