| People |
|
|---|---|
| Population, 2010 |
28,155 |
| Population, percent change, 2000 to 2010 |
-4.6% |
| Population, 2000 |
29,506 |
| Persons under 5 years, percent, 2010 |
9.3% |
| Persons under 18 years, percent, 2010 |
31.9% |
| Persons 65 years and over, percent, 2010 |
5.9% |
| Female persons, percent, 2010 |
49.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native persons, percent, 2010 (a) |
0.4% |
| Asian persons, percent, 2010 (a) |
3.8% |
| Black persons, percent, 2010 (a) |
16.7% |
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, percent, 2010 (a) |
7.5% |
| Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin, percent, 2010 (b) |
64.5% |
| Persons reporting two or more races, percent, 2010 |
4.8% |
| White persons not Hispanic, percent, 2010 |
6.2% |
| White persons, percent, 2010 (a) |
28.8% |
| Living in same house 1 year & over, 2006-2010 |
85.5% |
| Foreign born persons, percent, 2006-2010 |
41.2% |
| Language other than English spoken at home, pct age 5+, 2006-2010 |
70.1% |
| Education | |
| High school graduates, percent of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 |
65.0% |
| Bachelor’s degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2006-2010 |
16.0% |
| Housing | |
| Housing units, 2010 |
7,819 |
| Homeownership rate, 2006-2010 |
46.2% |
| Housing units in multi-unit structures, percent, 2006-2010 |
40.0% |
| Median value of owner-occupied housing units, 2006-2010 |
$525,600 |
| Households, 2006-2010 |
7,408 |
| Persons per household, 2006-2010 |
3.75 |
| Houses sold in 2011 |
209 |
| Median Sale Price |
252000 |
| Highest price paid for a SFR in 2011 |
549000 |
| Year oldest house sold in 2011 built |
1917 |
| Income | |
| Per capita money income |
$17,942 |
| Median household income |
$48,734 |
| Persons below poverty level, percent, |
16.6% |
| Business |
|
| Retail sales, 2007 ($1000) |
220,225 |
| Retail sales per capita, 2007 |
$6,753 |
| Geography |
|
| Land area in square miles, 2010 |
2.51 |
| Persons per square mile, 2010 |
11,239.5 |
| Acreage of Parks |
25acres |
| CITY VITALS | |
| City’s Annual Budget , Actual Expenditures (09-10) |
$23,850,238 |
| Per Capita Budget expenditure |
$847.10 |
| Number of City Employees | |
| City staff per thousand | |
| History | |
| Woods (1825-1880)acquired 3,673.76 acres [1]and with the abundance of Ravens chose to call the area “Ravenswood” Wood surveyed 5 subdivisions on each side of Bay Road and built himself a home called “Woodside Mansion” or “Woodside Dairy” |
1849 |
| The first school in San Mateo County was opened in a small shack at edge of Bay Road in the town of Ravenswood |
1852 |
| In the spring of 1856, a bill is introduced in the state senate that formed out of the southern portion of the county of San Francisco, a new county, to be called San Mateo. At the time it was organized, San Mateo County had 3214 inhabitants. |
1856 |
| On March 23, 1874, Menlo Park became the second incorporated city in San Mateo County, albeit for a short time. This incorporation, which included Fair Oaks, (later Atherton) and Ravenswood, (later East Palo Alto) lasted only until 1876. Governor Booth commissioned John T. Doyle and Lester P. Cooley both of Ravenswood as acting trustees.July 6 Lester Cooley elected Mayor of the new town of Menlo Park until the town’s disincorporation. |
1874 |
| 12/1/1909 Charles Weeks purchased land for a poultry colony from Mrs. Jeremiah Clark and Charles Cooley along Bay Road, divided them into 1.5 acre farms and named the section “Runnymeade” after the historic English meadow where the knight of old wrested the Magna Carta from King John. |
1909 |
| Name EAST PALO ALTO chosen at a neighborhood meeting to apply to the community of small subdivisions between Cooley Avenue and the Bay |
1925 |
April 13, 1982, Voters defeat proposition C- the Sanitary District Measure that would have dissolved the district with the city’s incorporation vote. Voters approved all the four other measurers. Voters served by the district living outside the city boundaries voted against the measure.
Voter turnout was 40% |
1982 |
| July 1, 1983 City incorporates-1782 For-1767 Against |
1983 |
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