California
California: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.
state · population 39,000,000 (registry) · North America · page prepared 2026-11-07
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California at a glance
Rolled up from the 151 regions inside California on this site, with census figures from Statistics Canada.
Population39,242,785
census
Places inside151
111 with a full /local page
Businesses on file855,687
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered2,458
in the company directory
Who represents them48
places with a /politics page
Property & employers49 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Who leads California, and how households are doing
Researched 2026-11-08 from official statistics; every figure links to its source.
Leadership
Economy & households
- Population
- 39,592,978 persons (2026-01) ↗
- GDP
- 4,297,449.8 USD millions, current dollars (BEA state GDP) (2025) ↗
- Unemployment
- 5.1 % (BLS LAUS, seasonally adjusted) (2026-09) ↗
- Median household income
- 100,800 USD, current dollars (Census CPS ASEC) (2025) ↗
- Home ownership
- 55.3 % (Census CPS/HVS) (2025) ↗
- Debt per person with a credit report
- 87,850 USD total debt balance per capita (consumers 18+ with an Equifax credit file; NY Fed CCP) (2025-Q4) ↗
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Home prices in the biggest cities
As each source measures them (benchmark, median or average sale price); not directly comparable across measures.
| City / metro | Price | Measure | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County ↗ | 994,670 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
| San Diego County ↗ | 1,050,000 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
| Santa Clara County (San Jose) ↗ | 1,920,000 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
| San Francisco County ↗ | 2,054,000 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
| Fresno County ↗ | 429,450 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
| Sacramento County ↗ | 555,000 USD | median sold price, existing single-family homes (C.A.R.) | 2026-09 |
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Languages
Official-language and home-language figures as the census reports them.
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Largest companies in California
Ranked by the measure shown, from the cited ranking or filing.
| Company | Measure | Value | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple (Cupertino) ↗ | revenue | 391,035 USD millions (Fortune 500 2025, mostly FY2024) | 2025 |
| Alphabet (Mountain View) ↗ | revenue | 350,018 USD millions | 2025 |
| Meta Platforms (Menlo Park) ↗ | revenue | 164,501 USD millions | 2025 |
| Nvidia (Santa Clara) ↗ | revenue | 130,497 USD millions | 2025 |
| Wells Fargo (San Francisco) ↗ | revenue | 125,397 USD millions | 2025 |
| Walt Disney (Burbank) ↗ | revenue | 91,361 USD millions | 2025 |
| Cisco Systems (San Jose) ↗ | revenue | 53,803 USD millions | 2025 |
| HP (Palo Alto) ↗ | revenue | 53,559 USD millions | 2025 |
| Intel (Santa Clara) ↗ | revenue | 53,101 USD millions | 2025 |
| Broadcom (Palo Alto) ↗ | revenue | 52,432 USD millions | 2025 |
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Worth knowing
- 2026-05California's population fell by about 54,000 (-0.14%) to 39,593,000 in 2025. It was the state's first annual loss after three years of growth. The Department of Finance attributes the drop to federal policy cutting net legal international migration by more than half, from 248,400 to 126,400. ↗
- 2026-05Net domestic out-migration from California rose to 288,600 people in 2025. Natural increase (births minus deaths) added 108,200. ↗
- 2026-09The statewide median price of an existing single-family home was $899,720 in September 2026, up 1.7% from a year earlier. Sales ran at 260,410 (seasonally adjusted annual rate), down 6.5% year over year. ↗
- 2026-09San Mateo County had California's highest county median single-family price in September 2026, at $2,327,500. San Francisco's median rose 17.4% year over year to $2,054,000. ↗
- 2025California's per capita personal income was $90,957 in 2025 (BEA). ↗
- 2026-02California consumers carried $87,850 of total household debt per capita in Q4 2025, up from $84,730 at the end of 2022 (NY Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax). ↗
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Census
US Census Bureau American Community Survey.
Median household income$96,334
Median rent$1,956/mo
Immigrants26.7%
Renters44.2%
Aged 65+15.3%
Unemployment6.4%
Low income12%
Speak a language other than English41.6%
Languages spoken at home (other than English)
- Spanish10,446,277 · 26.6%
- Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese)1,274,086 · 3.2%
- Other Indo-European languages1,239,326 · 3.2%
- Tagalog (incl. Filipino)769,480 · 2%
- Other Asian and Pacific Island languages726,747 · 1.9%
- Vietnamese562,701 · 1.4%
- Korean355,494 · 0.9%
- Russian, Polish, or other Slavic languages264,865 · 0.7%
- Arabic211,800 · 0.5%
- Other and unspecified languages209,279 · 0.5%
- French, Haitian, or Cajun136,413 · 0.3%
- German or other West Germanic languages118,885 · 0.3%
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Largest places in California
By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.
- 1.Los Angeles, California full3,870,000
- 2.San Diego, California full1,400,000
- 3.San Jose, California full989,814
- 4.San Francisco, California full826,079
- 5.Fresno, California full542,107
- 6.Sacramento, California full524,943
- 7.Long Beach, California full466,742
- 8.Oakland, California full440,646
- 9.Bakersfield, California full408,366
- 10.Anaheim, California full344,553
- 11.Stockton, California full320,804
- 12.Irvine, California full318,629
- 13.Riverside, California full314,998
- 14.Santa Ana, California full310,227
- 15.Chula Vista, California full275,487
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Inside California
109 regions have California as their parent.
- Anaheim, California
- Bakersfield, California
- Belmont, California
- Big Sur, California
- Buena Park, California
- Burbank-Glendale, California
- Burlingame-Hillsborough, California
- Calabasas, California
- Campbell, California
- Carlsbad-Oceanside, California
- Carmel-By-The-Sea, California
- Chico, California
- Chula Vista, California
- Concord, California
- Corona, California
- Coronado, California
- Costa Mesa, California
- Crescent City, California
- Culver City, California
- Cupertino, California
- Daly City, California
- Dana Point, CA
- El Centro, California town
- Encinitas, California
- Escondido, California
- Eureka, California
- Fort Bragg, California
- Gilroy, California
- Grass Valley, California
- Half Moon Bay, California
- Hermosa Beach, CA
- Imperial Beach, California
- Klamath, California
- La Jolla, California
- La Quinta, California
- Laguna Beach, California
- Lake Tahoe, California
- Lancaster, California
- Los Gatos, California town
- Los Osos-Baywood Park
- Malibu, California town
- Mammoth Lakes, California
- Manhattan Beach, CA
- Marina Del Ray, California
- Menlo Park, California
- Mill Valley, California
- Millbrae, California
- Milpitas, California
- Monterey, California
- Morgan Hill, California
- Mountain View, California
- Mt. Shasta, California town
- Murrieta-Temecula Valley, California
- Needles, California
- Nevada City, California
- Northern California
- Oakdale, California
- Ontario, California
- Orange County ("The OC"), California
- Oxnard, California
- Palm Springs, California
- Palmdale, California
- Palo Alto, California
- Paso Robles, California
- Pismo Beach, California
- Pleasant Hill, California
- Rancho Mirage, California
- Rancho Santa Margarita, California
- Red Bluff, California
- Redding, California
- Redondo Beach, CA
- Redwood City, California
- Sacramento, California
- Salinas, California
- San Bruno, California
- San Carlos, California
- San Clemente, California
- San Jose, California
- San Luis Obispo, California
- San Mateo, California
- San Rafael, California
- San Ramon, California
- San Simeon, California
- Santa Ana, California
- Santa Barbara, California
- Santa Clarita, California
- Santa Cruz, California
- Santa Maria, California
- Saratoga, California
- Selma, California
- Solvang, California
- Sonora, California
- South Lake Tahoe (Village), California
- Southern California
- Stockton, California
- Sunnyvale, California
- Tahoe City, California
- Tahoe Vista, California town
- Trinidad, California
- Truckee-Tahoe, California
- Vacaville, California
- Ventura (San Buenaventura), California
- Victorville, California
- Walnut Creek, California
- Westlake Village, California
- Williams, California
- Yosemite Valley, California
- Yuba City, California
- Yucca Valley, California town
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Companies based in California
1 in the Research Upon company directory list their headquarters here, and 2,458 across California and the places inside it — search them all below.
| Company | Industry | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Old Friends | Business |
areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of California are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.