A San Francisco Bay Region, referred to locally when A Bay Vicinity, is the conurbation that surrounds San Francisco Bay in northern California. At home to extra than 7 million humans, a area is composed of cities, towns, villages, military bases, airdrome, & regional, state, & national parks sprawled complete nine counties, connected by the massive network of roads, highways, rail, and commuter rail.

Because San Francisco was the big city in the area (it was surpassed by San Jose in the 1990 census) & remains a traditional and ethnical center, a region is typically identified by outsiders sustaining a city of San Francisco proper. Nonetheless, San Francisco has simply 11% of the Bay Region's people. A Bay Locality likewise differs from either virtually all more metropolitan areas therein, instead of with one metropolis surrounded by dependent suburbia, its people is distributed through many regional urban & surburban centers. Realising a independent & comparatively 'Balkanized' nature of a region, these are known as the 'Bay Region' instead by its residents. At last, a city of San Francisco sustaining Oakland and San Jose comprises a fifth big area in the United States, when New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C.-Baltimore.

The region
Berkeley as seen from the Claremont Canyon reserve

A City & County of San Francisco is generally placed inside the category by itself geographically, mentally, & unfeeling. These are separated by the water system from either either a northward & east, & by a county line from its neighbor cities south. San Francisco serves when a ethnic & financial center of a vicinity, & another time was the people & economic center. A eastern side of the bay, dominated per city of Oakland but also including Fremont, Livermore, Hayward and several little cities, is called a East Bay. A East Bay is split into deuce regions, a inner East Bay, which sits on a Bay coastline, & a outer East Bay, consisting of inl& vale separated from either the inner East Bay by hills and mountains. A inner East Bay consists of Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, Berkeley, and smaller suburbia encompassing or even encircled by these tetrad major cities, like Emeryville, San Leandro, and Richmond. the inner East Bay is further urban, sir thomas more densely populated, has a lot older building stock index (built prior to World War II) and the further ethnically diverse people. Oakland is the vicinity's principal seaport. A East Bay regional basketball, football, and baseball teams play from Oakland. A outer East Bay consists of the cities of Walnut Creek, Concord, and Antioch, to the north (when well referred as Central Contra Costa County) & a cities of Dublin, Livermore, Danville, and San Ramon to a south (sometimes known as the Livermore-Amador even Valley or a Tri-Valley). It is attached to the inner East Bay by BART & by highways and a Caldecott Tunnel. A outer East Bay is mostly suburban to rural & was mostly built when Globe War II. A communities along a southern edge of a Bay come referred to as the South Bay and Silicon Valley, although some Peninsula & East Bay towns come for instance involved in the latter. It includes a city of San Jose, and its smaller neighbors including Gilroy and the high-hi-tech hubs of Santa Clara, Cupertino and Sunnyvale, as well as several more suburbia. a booming Silicon Valley has shifted a regional people & economic center out of San Francisco & Oakl& and towards a South Bay; San Jose is at present the big city in the region. A technology boom has as well brought big many immigrants & caused housing & rent numbers to the greatest in the united states. A front yard between a South Bay & a City & County of San Francisco is referred to as a San Francisco Peninsula, locally just as A Peninsula. This region consists of a series of little cities & suburban communities along the Bay like Palo Alto and Stanford University, San Mateo, and Foster City, as well as various towns along a Pacific coast, such as Pacifica and Half Moon Bay. Because of the influence of Stanford University, deficiency of space, & high prices of dwelling, Silicon Valley has been slowly creeping up a peninsula.

A vicinity northerly of the Golden Gate Bridge is known as a North Bay. This region consists of Marin County and extends northward into Napa and Sonoma counties and eastbound to Solano County. Using occasionally exceptions, this region is super loaded, & is typically a least urbanised a portion of the Bay Region, sustaining numerous areas of undeveloped park & domestic land. These are a single part of the Bay Locality that is non served by a commuter rail transit service, though Sonoma-Marin service has entered the planning phase.

The wealthiest region in the nation

A San Francisco Bay Metropolitan area is one of a affluent regions in the United States.

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, of the 280 defined metropolitan areas, a San Francisco Bay Metropolitan area has the highest median household income in the nation with $62,024. Washington-Baltimore Metro, Anchorage (Alaska), Minneapolis-St. Paul (Twin Cities), and Greater Boston make up the rest of the top 5.

Six of a top tenner California wharehouses by having the greatest by the capita income come in the San Francisco Bay Region:

1. Belvedere, California $113,595 3. Atherton, California $112,408 5. Woodside, California $104,667 6. Portola Valley, California $99,621 8. Hillsborough, California $98,643 9. Diablo, California $95,419

Of the C greatest income counties by by the capita income in the United States, (richest counties), sextuplet come in the San Francisco Bay Vicinity:

1. Marin County, California $44,962 14. San Mateo County, California $36,045 19. San Francisco County, California $34,556 25. Santa Clara County, California $32,795 45. Contra Costa County, California $30,615 96. Alameda County, California $26,680

Of the top highest income counties by personal per capita income, 5 San Francisco Bay Metropolitan area Counties processed a top L:

3. Marin County, California $67,710 7. San Mateo County, California $58,913 10. San Francisco County, California $55,735 12. Santa Clara County, California $54,188 32. Contra Costa County, California $44,484

Of the top One c highest income counties by median household income, eight California Counties made a listing, & half of victims come in the San Francisco Bay Metropolitan area:

9. Santa Clara County, California $74,335 14. Marin County, California $71,306 18. San Mateo County, California $70,819 45. Contra Costa County, California $63,675

Based on data from Forbes Magazine, published within 2005, Twenty-nine away from a top Fifty most expensive Zip Codes come located in California, of which 12 are in the Bay Vicinity. A dollar numbers come denoted by median house low price within 2004:

1. 94027 Atherton, CA $2,496,553 6. 94957 Ross, CA $1,910,263 18. 94528 Diablo, CA $1,452,500 19. 94920 Belvedere Tiburon, CA $1,421,336 20. 94022 Los Altos, CA $1,392,522 23. 94946 Nicasio, CA $1,370,000 27. 94028 Portola Valley, CA $1,316,417 29. 94024 Los Altos, CA $1,306,432 31. 95030 Los Gatos, CA $1,278,645 37. 94123 San Francisco, CA $1,183,307 40. 94010 San Francisco, CA $1,152,066

Weather
Because capitol hill, mountains, & big bodies of fluids create such immense geographic diversity in this vicinity, the Bay Front yard offers a important kind of microclimates. A areas touching a Pacific Ocean are generally characterized by comparatively little temperature variations in a period of the month, sustaining cool foggy summers & modest showery winters. Inl& areas, especially people separated from either a ocean by hills or even mountains, own hotter summers and colder all-night temperatures when you took a wintertime, sustaining an occasional snow dusting a greatest peaks (including Mount St. Helena, Mount Hamilton, Mount Diablo, Mount Tamalpais). A Bay Region is usually subdivided into many little subregions.

Transportation
Airports
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) :The big & oldest drome around the vicinity, & the major international hub aerodrome in California 2nd sole to LAX (Los Angeles). Oakland International Airport (OAK) :The 2nd big airdrome in the region & the hub for mostly on line-low-priced household flights. Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) :The little of the major airdrome. Undergoing the major expansion & renovation to cover extra major flights.

Public transportation
Bus
Many & typically overlapping bus transit agents service a locality: view Muni, AC Transit, SamTrans, VTA, County Connection and Golden Gate Transit Light rail
Muni & VTA besides work light rail networks. Mass transit
the Bay Locality is served by a total of mass transit systems: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) - A subway/commuter rail service that serves parts of the Bay Metropolitan area, including San Francisco, Oakl&, Berkeley, Fremont, and Walnut Creek. It has the straight connection to San Francisco's aerodrome when the straight connection to Oakland's drome is in the planning stages. Caltrain - A commuter rail service that connects San Jose and cities along the Peninsula using San Francisco, California, and with a Baronet rules by way of the Millbrae Transit Station. Amtrak - There are several Amtrak stations throughout a Bay Metropolitan area. Major stations around Martinez and Emeryville feature Coast Starlight and California Zephyr service. A Starlight likewise services Oakl& and San Jose. A Capitol Corridor connects Bay Area cities to Sacramento, and features BART transport stations at Richmond and the Oakland Coliseum. ACE - Altamont Commuter Express; a rail service that principally serves commuters to & from either a Central Valley to the Silicon Valley. It travels from either Stockton through Pleasanton, Fremont, Santa Clara, and ends at San Jose. It operates single in the period of commute hours in weekdays.

Ferries
Public ferry services cross a bay to serve each commuters & leisure travelers. Operators include Golden Gate Transit, Blue and Gold Fleet, and Red and White.

Freeways and highways
Bay Bridge connects San Francisco with Oakland and the East Bay.]] A Bay Region possesses an extensive pike & main road models. ;Trans-bay crossings Interstate 80 - The american terminus of I personally-80 is located in San Francisco, upright west of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. A interstate highway continues to a east, copulative to Oakl& and the to the north coast of the East Bay, and so in to Sacramento and Reno. Interstate 580 - This spur route's western terminus is inside Marin County. A Interstate crosses a San Pablo Bay across a Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, passes across Oakland, so continues to Livermore, through the Altamont Pass to Tracy, where it intersects with Interstate 5. California State Route 92 - CA-92's western terminus is within Half Moon Bay. Them-lane main road crosses a Santa Cruz Mountains, connecting to Interstate 28& U.S. Highway 101, becoming the expressway when it lives across San Mateo before crossing the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge to Hayward. California State Route 84 - CA-84 begins at the Pacific Coast touching San Gregorio State Beach, and crosses a Santa Cruz Mountains on a scenic route between La Honda and Woodside. It so crosses a Bay on top a Dumbarton Bridge from Redwood City to Newark. A route so lives across Fremont, continuing as Niles Canyon Road to Sunol and Livermore.

;A Peninsula south Bay Interstate 280 and U.S. Highway 101 - Eight-lane and, in some parts, 10-lane freeways connecting San Francisco to San Jose, passing through the Peninsula. Highway 101 continues south to Gilroy and Salinas, California, before continuing to Los Angeles. For virtually all of its route We-280 line a foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, & is very scenic, when 101 is extremely urban & is locally referred to as "the world's longest parking lot." California State Routes 1 and 35 - Two-lane main road too traveling down a Peninsula, CA-One along a Pacific coast, & CA-35 touching the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. CA-One connects to Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, and Monterey, before continuing to Los Angeles. California State Routes 17 and 9 - Highways through the Santa Cruz Mountains, connecting the South Bay to Santa Cruz. A share of CA-17 around San Jose is an 8 lane throughway. California Routes 237 and 85 - Freeways connecting the west Santa Clara Valley to the east Santa Clara Valley, bypassing Downtown San Jose. California State Route 87 - North-south superhighway completely around San Jose, connecting Downtown to the Almaden Valley. California State Route 152 - Two-lane main road from either Watsonville, crosses a Santa Cruz Mountains to Gilroy, so crosses the Diablo Range through Pacheco Pass to I-Five touching Los Banos. California State Route 82 - Highway running from either San Jose to Interstate 280 inside San Francisco. These are intended the State Route, although these are further similar to an inner-city avenue, & contains either Deuce, Little joe, or even Captain hicks lanes. Across great deal of the San Mateo County, these are likewise referred to as El Camino Real. It diarrhea from either Daly City north through the Peninsula & beyond. The freeway patterns within Santa Clara county is augmented by its expressway system.

;Northerly Bay US-10One & CA-1 - Prove my point northerly of San Francisco, crossing a Golden Gate Bridge & connecting San Francisco to Marin and Sonoma counties, and one of these days to Oregon. California State Route 29 - Four-lane state highway connecting Interstate 80 around Vallejo within Solano County to the towns of Our contries Canon & Brassica rapa pekinensis. Northward of Napa, SR-29 occurs as both-lane rural main road through the towns of the Napa Valley, California's Wine Country, to Clear Lake. California State Route 37 - Four- & 2-lane pike connecting Me-101 withwithin Novato by using Interstate 80 in Vallejo, along a northern shore of San Pablo Bay. California State Route 12 - A main road connecting Santa Rosa by owning suburbia to the east & west.

;East Bay Interstates 880 and 680 travel up a East Bay from either either San Jose, 880 approximately a bay to Oakl&, and 680 inland from San Jose n across Fremont, Pleasanton and Concord; then crosses a Benicia-Martinez bridge & finishes at Interstate 80 in Fairfield. Interstate 980 is entirely within Downtown Oakl& and begins at Interstate 880 and travels north to turn into California State Route 24 at Interstate 580. California State Route 13, or a Warren Freeway, is completely in the Oakl& Hills and travels northward from either Interstate 580 to California State Route 24, where a thruway part stops. Beyond SR Two dozen, SR Long dozen is Berkeley's Ashby Avenue. California State Route 24 begins at Interstate 580 in Oakland and travels east through the Caldecott Tunnel to Interstate 680 in Walnut Creek. California State Route 238/Interstate 238 (Mission Boulevard) is an arterial from Fremont to Hayward, along the base of capitol hill, so becomes the pike touching Oakland. California State Route 4 - Western terminus at Interstate 80 in Hercules, travels east through Martinez, Pittsburg, & Antioch, in which a pike part ceases. A main road continues to Brentwood & east to Stockton.

Bridges
Due to a central location of the San Francisco Overmuch, many bridges cross the Bay or even Bay feeder. The Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge The San Mateo-Hayward Bridge The Dumbarton Bridge, connecting Menlo Park in San Mateo County with Fremont in Alameda County The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge The Carquinez Bridge, connecting Vallejo in Solano County with Crockett in Contra Costa County The Benicia-Martinez Bridge, connecting Solano & Contra Costa Counties The Antioch Bridge, connecting Antioch in Contra Costa County with Sacramento County

Universities & colleges
A region is at home to a few prestigious universities and seminaries, including the world renowned University of California, Berkeley (or CAL) & Stanford University. Nobel laureates have been attracted to these universities from countries in the area of the world. Virtually all studies rank a San Francisco Bay Front yard people at or even touching a top in the United states for overall education level. (A more 2 candidates would become Greater Boston and Washington D.C.)

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Regional counties, cities and suburbs

A as a result lists come according to a ten-county definition of the Bay Locality. Victims web pages enrolled around italics would become excluded per nine-county definition that excludes Santa Cruz County.

Counties
Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants
Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
Suburbs with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants
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