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San Mateo County (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 764,442.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Redwood City is the county seat,<ref name="GR6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the third-most populated city in the county after Daly City and San Mateo.

San Mateo County is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA MSA (metropolitan statistical area), Silicon Valley, and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine counties bordering San Francisco Bay. As of 2020, it has a median household income of $128,091, the fourth-highest household income of any county in the nation behind Loudoun County, Virginia, Falls Church, Virginia, and Santa Clara County, California.

The county covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula. The county is predominantly suburban and is home to many corporate campuses.

HistoryEdit

San Mateo County was formed in 1856 upon the division of San Francisco County, one of the state's 18 original counties established at California statehood in 1850. Until 1856, San Francisco's city limits extended west to Divisadero Street and Castro Street, and south to 20th Street. In 1856, the California state government divided the county. A straight line was then drawn across the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula just north of San Bruno Mountain. Everything south of the line became the new San Mateo County while everything north of the line became the new consolidated City and County of San Francisco.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> San Mateo County was officially organized on April 18, 1857, under a bill introduced by Senator T.G. Phelps. The 1857 bill defined the southern boundary of San Mateo County as following the south branch of San Francisquito Creek to its source in the Santa Cruz Mountains and thence due west to the Pacific Ocean, and named Redwood City as the county seat.<ref name=Alexander-Hamm>Template:Cite book</ref> San Mateo County then annexed part of northern Santa Cruz County in March 1868, including Pescadero and Pigeon Point.<ref name="cagenealogy101.com">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Alexander-Hamm />

Although the formation bill named Redwood City the county seat, a May 1856 election marked by "unblushing frauds perpetuated on an unorganized and wholly unprotected community by thugs and ballot stuffers from San Francisco" named Belmont the county seat.<ref name=AH-24>Alexander & Hamm (1916), p. 24.</ref> The election results were declared illegal and the county government was moved to Redwood City, with land being donated from the original Pulgas Grant for the county government on February 27, 1858.<ref name=AH-24 /> Redwood City's status as county seat was upheld in two successive elections in May 1861 and December 9, 1873, defeating San Mateo and Belmont.<ref name=AH-24 /> Another election in May 1874 named San Mateo the county seat, but the state supreme court overturned that election on February 24, 1875, and the county seat has remained at Redwood City ever since.<ref name=AH-24 />

San Mateo County bears the Spanish name for Saint Matthew. As a place name, San Mateo appears as early as 1776 in the diaries of Anza and Font.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Several local geographic features were also designated San Mateo on early maps including variously: a settlement, an arroyo, a headland jutting into the Pacific (Point Montara), and a large land holding (Rancho San Mateo). Until about 1850, the name appeared as San Matheo.

Japanese Americans in San MateoEdit

The Japanese first arrived in San Mateo County and were part of a group guided by Ambassador Tomomi Iwakura in 1872.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A number of male Japanese students came to San Mateo to learn English and many other helpful skills to bring back to Japan.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> These students were also some of the first Japanese to join American students in the Belmont School for Boys. These students had to work for their housing and food before classes and in the evenings.<ref name=":0" /> Many of the first Japanese immigrants were able to find jobs as gardeners and landscapers in San Mateo. Most of them had a good educational background from their homelands, but their lack of knowledge of the English language made it difficult for them to find other jobs in the beginning.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

GeographyEdit

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is land and Template:Convert (40%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is the third-smallest county in California by land area. A number of bayside watercourses drain the eastern part of the county including San Bruno Creek and Colma Creek. Streams draining the western county include Frenchmans Creek, Pilarcitos Creek, Naples Creek, Arroyo de en Medio, and Denniston Creek. These streams originate along the northern spur of the Santa Cruz Mountains that run through the county. The northern and eastern parts of the county are very heavy densely populated with largely urban and suburban areas, with many of its cities as edge-cities for the Bay Area, while the deep south and the west-central parts of the county are less densely populated with more rural environment and coastal beaches areas.

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The Santa Cruz Mountains cross through San Mateo County. In comparison to the rest of the county, the area is quite rural and forested.

FeaturesEdit

San Mateo County straddles the San Francisco Peninsula, with the Santa Cruz Mountains running its entire length. The county encompasses a variety of habitats, including estuarine, marine, oak woodland, redwood forest, coastal scrub and oak savannah. There are numerous species of wildlife present, especially along the San Francisco Bay estuarine shoreline, San Bruno Mountain, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve and the forests on the Montara Mountain block. Several creeks discharge to the San Francisco Bay, including San Mateo Creek and Laurel Creek, and several coastal streams discharge to the Pacific Ocean, such as Frenchmans Creek and San Vicente Creek.

Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area and Greyhound Rock State Marine Conservation Area are two adjoining marine protected areas off the coast of San Mateo County. Like underwater parks, these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems.

Flora and faunaEdit

The county is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake and the San Bruno elfin butterfly, both of which are endemic to San Mateo County. The endangered Ridgway's Rail is also found on the shores of San Francisco Bay, in the cities of Belmont and San Mateo. The endangered wildflower Hickman's potentilla is found near the Pacific Ocean on the lower slopes of Montara Mountain. The endangered wildflowers White-rayed pentachaeta, Pentachaeta bellidiflora, San Mateo Woolly Sunflower, Eriophyllum latilobum, Marin Dwarf Flax, Hesperolinon congestum and the San Mateo Thornmint, Acanthomintha duttonii, are found in the vicinity of the Crystal Springs Reservoir.

In May 2014, a California condor was spotted near Pescadero, a coastal community south of San Francisco<ref name=Timesherald_1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>—it was the first California condor spotted in San Mateo County since 1904.<ref name=Timesherald_1/> The condor, tagged with the number "597", and also known as "Lupine", is one of 439 condors living in the wild or captivity in California, Baja California and Arizona.<ref name=Timesherald_1/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The three-year-old female flew more than Template:Convert north from Pinnacles National Park, in San Benito County, on May 30, and landed on a private, forested property near Pescadero, on the San Mateo County Coast, where it was photographed by a motion-activated wildlife camera.<ref name=Timesherald_1/> Harold Heath, professor emeritus, of Stanford University was responsible for the 1904 sighting, Template:Convert west of the university campus.<ref name=Timesherald_1/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Pumas (Puma concolor), also known as cougars or mountain lions, roam the county.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Tule elk (Cervus canadensis nannodes) were native to San Mateo County and among the "favored foods" of the Ohlone people based on ethnohistoric and archeological evidence there.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The discovery of two elk specimens made news in 1962, one a royal elk (royal elk bulls have six tines per antler) from a peat bog excavated in Pacifica's historic Laguna Alta, and now in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology collection.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> These may date from the time of Spanish settlement.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Laguna Alta lay just south of the Interstate 280 and Skyline Boulevard intersection, east of Mussel Rock.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The California Academy of Sciences also has an elk skull fragment collected one mile inland from the mouth of Purisima Creek in 1951.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Additional coastal elk remains dating from the Middle and Late Periods in Northern California were found in at least five more late Holocene archeological sites in San Mateo County: SMA-115 (Montara State Beach site), SMA-118 (Bean Hollow State Beach site), SMA-244 (Butano Ridge site), SMA-97 (Año Nuevo Creek site) and SMA-218 (Año Nuevo State Reserve site).<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> On the eastern side of the San Francisco Peninsula, elk remains were also unearthed at multiple archaeological sites along San Francisquito Creek.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

National protected areasEdit

Marine protected areaEdit

County parksEdit

Template:OSM Location map The County of San Mateo Parks Department operates 22 parks, trails, and historic sites spread throughout the county; the first, Memorial Park, was dedicated on July 4, 1924.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp The County Superintendent of Schools, Roy Cloud, had visited a one-room schoolhouse in Harrison Canyon as part of his duties; at the time, it was thickly forested with old-growth redwoods and he was alarmed when he learned they were scheduled to be logged. He petitioned the County Board of Supervisors to purchase the land instead.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp The Recreation Commission was not created until 1932, and the park was improved as part of the Works Progress Administration efforts starting in 1935.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp

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1 Coyote PointTemplate:Flatlist File:Zeppelin-ride-020100925-130 (5028699547).jpg 1963 Template:ConvertTemplate:Efn San Mateo/Burlingame citation CitationClass=web

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4 Edgewood File:Monday Night Birding (14177890134).jpg 1980 Template:Convert Redwood City citation CitationClass=web

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5 FitzgeraldTemplate:Efn File:JV Fitzgerald Marine Reserve 04 (11013086134).jpg 1969 Moss Beach citation CitationClass=web

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8 Huddart File:Huddart park to Crystal Spring trail (2).jpg 1948 Template:Convert Woodside citation CitationClass=web

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9 Junipero Serra File:Junipero Serra County Park 01 (7387783278).jpg 1960 Template:Convert San Bruno citation CitationClass=web

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10 Memorial File:Huckleberry Flat picnic area (3172631077).jpg 1924 Template:Convert Loma Mar citation CitationClass=web

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11 Mirada Surf Template:ConvertTemplate:Efn El Granada <ref name="Coyote Point Recreation Area"/><ref name="Coyote Point Marina"/>
12 Moss Beach 2014 Template:Convert Moss Beach <ref name="Coyote Point Recreation Area"/><ref name="Coyote Point Marina"/>
13 Pescadero Creek File:Entering the Park (5365626915).jpg 1968 Template:Convert Loma Mar citation CitationClass=web

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14 Pillar Point File:Great Blue Heron at Pillar Point Bluffs.jpg 2011 Template:Convert Moss Beach citation CitationClass=web

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16 Sam McDonald File:Sam McDonald County Park (16121518351).jpg 1970 Template:Convert Loma Mar citation CitationClass=web

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17 San Bruno Mountain File:Aerial view of San Bruno Mountain.jpg 1978 Template:Convert Brisbane citation CitationClass=web

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22 Wunderlich File:Meadow Trail Wunderlich Park.jpg 1974 Template:Convert Woodside citation CitationClass=web

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Prior to the rebuilding of the San Mateo Bridge that began in 1996, the county had also operated Werder Pier for fishermen; it had been the western segment of the original 1929 vertical-lift bridge.

In addition to the county-operated parks, San Mateo County voters created the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in 1972, administered by the Peninsula Open Space Trust, which owns several protected spaces within San Mateo County (as well as within Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties). San Mateo County protected spaces administered by POST include:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Div col

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DemographicsEdit

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2020 censusEdit

San Mateo County, California – Racial and ethnic composition
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White alone (NH) 303,609 275,902 42.26% 36.09%
Black or African American alone (NH) 18,763 14,701 2.61% 1.92%
Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) 1,125 1,021 0.16% 0.13%
Asian alone (NH) 175,934 227,783 24.49% 29.80%
Pacific Islander alone (NH) 9,884 8,840 1.38% 1.16%
Other Race alone (NH) 2,709 5,840 0.38% 0.76%
Mixed Race or Multi-Racial (NH) 23,925 38,969 3.33% 5.10%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 182,502 191,386 25.40% 25.04%
Total 718,451 764,442 100.00% 100.00%

2012Edit

As of 2012, San Mateo County had one of the largest Tongan communities outside of Tonga, with an estimated 13,000 Tongan Americans.<ref name="smdj">Template:Cite news</ref>

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Ethnic origins in San Mateo County

2011Edit

Places by population, race, and incomeEdit

2010Edit

The 2010 United States census reported that San Mateo County had a population of 718,451. The racial makeup of San Mateo County was 383,535 (53.4%) White, 20,436 (2.8%) African American, 3,306 (0.5%) Native American, 178,118 (24.8%) Asian (9.8% Filipino, 9.0% Chinese, 1.9% Indian, 1.2% Japanese, 0.8% Korean, 0.5% Vietnamese, 0.3% Burmese, 0.1% Pakistani), 10,317 (1.4%) Pacific Islander (0.6% Tongan, 0.3% Samoan, 0.2% Fijian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian), 84,529 (11.8%) from other races, and 38,210 (5.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 182,502 persons (25.4%); 15.7% of San Mateo County is Mexican, 2.7% Salvadoran, 1.2% Guatemalan, 1.2% Nicaraguan, 0.7% Peruvian, 0.6% Puerto Rican, 0.2% Colombian, and 0.2% Cuban.<ref>Template:USCensus2010CA</ref>

2000Edit

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Age distribution (2000 census)

As of the census of 2009,<ref name="GR8">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> there were 714,936 people, 258,648 households, and 174,582 families residing in the county. The population density was Template:Convert. There were 284,471 housing units at an average density of Template:Convert. 7.4% were of Italian, 7.1% Irish, 7.0% German and 5.3% English ancestry according to Census 2000. 46.9% spoke English, 28.4% Spanish, 6.2% Tagalog, 4.0% Chinese or Mandarin and 1.1% Cantonese, and other language 4.2%, as their first language from estimate census 2009.

There were 258,648 households, out of which 30% had children under the age of 18, 48.6% were married couples living together, 14.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.7% were non-families. 31.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.79 and the average family size was 4.44.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 28.6% under the age of 18, 15.9% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 21% from 45 to 64, and 9.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.1 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $69,306, and the median income for a family was $77,737. Males had a median income of $48,342 versus $45,383 for females. The per capita income for the county was $36,045. About 6.42% of families and 9.51% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.01% of those under age 18 and 8.52% of those age 65 or over.

GovernmentEdit

San Mateo County has a five-member Board of Supervisors, representing five geographic districts. The Board of Supervisors were formerly elected at-large (by voters across the entire county) until November 2012. On November 6, 2012, Measure B passed<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to amend the San Mateo County Charter so that each member of the Board of Supervisors would be elected by voters in his or her district.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

  • District 1 is represented by Dave Pine.
  • District 2 is represented by Noelia Corzo.
  • District 3 is represented by Ray Mueller.
  • District 4 is represented by Warren Slocum.
  • District 5 is represented by David Canepa.

The other county elected officials are:

Elected Office Name
Assessor–County Clerk–Recorder Mark Church
Controller Juan Raizoga
Coroner Robert Foucrault
District Attorney Stephen M. Wagstaffe
Sheriff Christina Corpus
Treasurer–Tax Collector Sandie Arnott

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In the California State Senate, San Mateo is split between the 11th and 13th districts, represented by Template:Representative and Template:Representative, respectively.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PoliticsEdit

Presidential election results and voter registrationEdit

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Cities by population and voter registrationEdit

OverviewEdit

The California Secretary of State, as of February 2019, reports that San Mateo County has 404,958 registered voters.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Of those voters, 202,341 (50%) are registered Democratic, 60,045 (14.3%) are registered Republican, 15,834 (3.9%) are registered with other political parties, and 126,738 (31.3%) declined to state a political party preference. Every city, town, and unincorporated area of San Mateo County has more registered Democrats than Republicans.

On November 4, 2008, San Mateo County voted 61.8% against Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CrimeEdit

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Population and crime rates
Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/> 711,622
Violent crime<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11">Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice, State of California. Table 11: Crimes – 2009 Template:Webarchive. Retrieved November 14, 2013.</ref> 2,072 2.91
  Homicide<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 16 0.02
  Forcible rape<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 128 0.18
  Robbery<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 734 1.03
  Aggravated assault<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 1,194 1.68
Property crime<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 8,677 12.19
  Burglary<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 3,072 4.32
  Larceny-theft<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/><ref name="LT-note group=note">Only larceny-theft cases involving property over $400 in value are reported as property crimes.</ref> 10,712 15.05
  Motor vehicle theft<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 1,988 2.79
Arson<ref name="CA-DOJ-T11"/> 125 0.18

Cities by population and crime ratesEdit

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Atherton 7,060 6 0.85 124 17.56
Belmont 26,389 24 0.91 408 15.46
Brisbane 4,374 6 1.37 142 32.46
Broadmoor 4,264 13 3.05 62 14.54
Burlingame 29,427 61 2.07 707 24.03
Colma 1,832 7 3.82 287 156.66
Daly City 103,311 216 2.09 1,803 17.45
East Palo Alto 28,766 333 11.58 587 20.41
Foster City 31,230 18 0.58 345 11.05
Hillsborough 11,060 1 0.09 86 7.78
Menlo Park 32,713 53 1.62 625 19.11
Pacifica 38,041 42 1.10 578 15.19
Redwood City 78,466 208 2.65 1,800 22.94
San Bruno 42,002 85 2.02 961 22.88
San Mateo 99,303 261 2.63 1,876 18.89
South San Francisco 65,006 111 1.71 1,321 20.32
Overall 603,244 1,445 2.40 11,712 19.42

EconomyEdit

A July 2013 Wall Street Journal article identified the Facebook initial public offering (IPO) as the cause of a change in the U.S.' national economic statistics, as San Mateo County—the home of the company—became the top wage-earning county in the country after the fourth quarter of 2012. The article revealed that the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the average weekly wage in the county was $3,240, which is 107% higher than the previous year: "That's the equivalent of $168,000 a year, and more than 50% higher than the next highest county, New York County (better known as Manhattan), which came in at $2,107 a week, or roughly $110,000 a year."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median value of homes in San Mateo County was $1,247,070, an increase of 11% from the prior year. It ranked fourth in the U.S. for counties with highest median home value, behind Nantucket, Manhattan, and Santa Clara.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Additionally, San Mateo County hosts the headquarters of Visa Inc, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Electronic Arts, YouTube, Genentech, GoPro, and Gilead Sciences, as well as a hub of venture capital firms in Menlo Park and several other technology-related companies.

In 2016, Peninsula Clean Energy began providing electricity to 20 percent of residential customers, all municipalities, and all small- to mid-size businesses in the county, as a Community Choice Aggregation program, an alternative to Pacific Gas and Electric.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

EducationEdit

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Burlingame Public Library

The people of San Mateo County may use the services of San Mateo County Libraries along with the Peninsula Library System and its dozens of branches, bookmobile and Library-a-Go-Go machine at the Millbrae BART/Caltrain station.

The county is divided into several public school districts and is also served by the local Catholic diocese and many other private parochial and secular schools. The San Mateo County Board of Education oversees early education, special education, and the court and community schools program in the county, as well as serves as an appeal board for the adjudication of expulsion appeals, interdistrict attendance appeals, and charter schools.

Some students in San Mateo County's public schools attend outdoor education in La Honda. San Mateo Outdoor Education is a residential school that teaches major concepts of ecology via exploration of forest, pond, garden, tidepool, wetland, and sandy shore habitats.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The center's mascot is the banana slug, a large yellow gastropod. The school uses songs from the famous Banana Slug String Band.

K-12 school districtsEdit

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Oceana High School in Pacifica, part of the Jefferson Union High School District

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Unified
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Higher educationEdit

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Campus of College of San Mateo

There are three community colleges in San Mateo County, all of which belong to the San Mateo County Community College District:

TransportationEdit

Major highwaysEdit

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Public transportationEdit

RailEdit

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Caltrain in Millbrae

Caltrain, the commuter rail system, connects ten cities in the county with San Francisco (to the north) and San Jose / Gilroy (to the south), running between the Highway 101 and El Camino Real corridors for most of the way. There are 13 stations in San Mateo County, of which 12 have daily service; the ten cities with stations stretch from Brisbane on the north to Menlo Park on the south.

Caltrain stations in San Mateo County, from north to south

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BART at Millbrae station

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains serve San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and the northern portion of the county, paralleling El Camino Real / Mission Boulevard at six stations between Daly City and Millbrae, including the station at SFO.

BART stations in San Mateo County, from north to south

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The only direct connection between Caltrain and BART is at Millbrae station.

BusEdit

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SamTrans buses in Redwood City

SamTrans (San Mateo County Transit District) provides local bus service within San Mateo County with some routes connecting to the Palo Alto Transit Center in Santa Clara County and Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco. Approximately Template:Frac of all SamTrans bus routes travel along El Camino Real, and route ECR, the primary bus route on El Camino, carries approximately 25% of SamTrans ridership.<ref>Template:Cite report</ref>Template:Rp

Each Caltrain and BART station has connections to SamTrans routes. In addition, Daly City station is served by SF Muni bus routes. There are many free shuttles that operate from Caltrain, BART, and Ferry stations along fixed routes to local employers during weekday commuting hours (6–10 am and 3–7 pm).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Overnight rail service is substituted by All Nighter bus service, split between SamTrans routes 397 (replacing Caltrain between San Francisco and Palo Alto via SFO) and ECR Owl (replacing BART between Daly City and SFO).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AirportsEdit

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SFO, aerial view looking southwest

San Francisco International Airport is geographically located in San Mateo County, east of Highway 101 near San Bruno and Millbrae, but it is owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco.

San Mateo County owns two general aviation airports: Half Moon Bay Airport and San Carlos Airport.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Marine transportEdit

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Port of Redwood City

The only deepwater port in South San Francisco Bay is the Port of Redwood City, situated along Redwood Creek, originally created as a lumber embarcadero in 1850. The San Mateo Harbor Harbor District manages the Pillar Point Harbor (on the Pacific coast side) and Oyster Point Marina (on San Francisco Bay).

The San Francisco Bay Ferry operates routes connecting the South San Francisco Ferry Terminal in Oyster Point to the Oakland Ferry Terminal in Jack London Square (Oakland) and the Alameda Ferry Terminal in Alameda. A free shuttle is provided to connect ferry passengers to the South San Francisco Caltrain station, via several business parks on Oyster Point.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Notable structuresEdit

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There are a number of well-known structures within San Mateo County:

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CommunitiesEdit

CitiesEdit

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TownsEdit

Census-designated placesEdit

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Unincorporated communitiesEdit

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Population rankingEdit

The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2020 United States census of San Mateo County.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Rank City/Town/etc. Municipal type Population (2020 Census)
1 San Mateo City 105,661
2 Daly City City 104,901
3 † Redwood City City 84,292
4 South San Francisco City 66,105
5 San Bruno City 43,908
6 Pacifica City 38,640
7 Foster City City 33,805
8 Menlo Park City 33,780
9 Burlingame City 31,386
10 San Carlos City 30,722
11 East Palo Alto City 30,034
12 Belmont City 28,335
13 Millbrae City 23,216
14 North Fair Oaks CDP 14,027
15 Half Moon Bay City 11,795
16 Hillsborough Town 11,387
17 Atherton Town 7,188
18 El Granada CDP 5,481
19 Woodside Town 5,309
20 Brisbane City 4,851
21 Portola Valley Town 4,456
22 Broadmoor CDP 4,411
23 Emerald Lake Hills CDP 4,406
24 Highlands-Baywood Park CDP 4,027
25 West Menlo Park CDP 3,930
26 Moss Beach CDP 3,214
27 Montara CDP 2,833
28 Ladera CDP 1,557
29 Colma Town 1,507
30 La Honda CDP 979
31 Pescadero CDP 595
32 Loma Mar CDP 134

See alsoEdit

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NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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