The metro area population of San Francisco in 2024 was 3,343,000, a 0.45% increase from 2023.

September 30, 2025 - The metro area population of San Francisco in 2024 was 3,343,000, a 0.45% increase from 2023.

In 2023, the population of the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan area in the United States was about 4.57 million people.

2 weeks ago - San Francisco is currently growing at a rate of 1.02% annually but its population has decreased by -5.41% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 874,826 in 2020.

Between 2020 and 2025, the total population in the Bay Area decreased by 109k, the first decrease in decades ... In 2025, almost 7.7 million people lived in the nine-county, 7,000-square-mile Bay Area region.

March 13, 2025 - Related reading: After the S.F. exodus, these are the groups of people who are coming back ... A stronger recovery is occurring in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area, which saw 1.5% growth between July 2023 and July 2024.

3 days ago - In 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an estimated population of 4,648,486 for the city's metropolitan statistical area (13th-largest in the U.S.) and 9,164,058 residents for the larger combined statistical area (5th-largest).

October 16, 2025 - With a population density of 18,633 per square mile (7,194/km2), San Francisco is the second-most densely populated major American city, behind only New York (among cities greater than 200,000 population).

It is home to an estimated 893,000 people in the city and 3.3 million in the metropolitan area. It is the 16th most populous city in the United States and the fourth most populous in California. It covers a relatively small amount of land—mostly in the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula ...

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4 days ago - The most populous cities of the Bay Area are Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, the latter of which had a population of 969,655 in 2023, making San Jose the area's largest city and the 13th-most populous in the United States.

March 29, 2024 - New U.S. Census Bureau data shows San Francisco’s population grew by about 1,200 in the last tracking period and still remains one of the most populated metropolitan areas in the country.

While San Francisco’s population ... of 17.2% and slowly beginning to increase again closer to · 2030. The most growth is anticipated in residents aged 70+, projected to increase by 73,114, or 90.8%....

From 2000 to 2010, San Francisco's population increased by 28,179 (3.63%), according to Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program. For the same period, the rate of growth for the United States was 9.63%.

March 18, 2025 - Driving the news: The number of people living in U.S. metro areas increased by almost 3.2 million from 2023 to 2024 — a gain of about 1.1% — the Census Bureau said last week. By comparison, the total U.S. population rose 1% during that time.

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War II and the postwar baby boom produced the highest rate of population growth since the 1870’s. In the mid and late 1800’s, most of the growth occurred within the city of San Francisco. People crowded into the San · Francisco metropolitan area in the 1880’s, and the population grew to 274,000.

May 19, 2025 - That puts the city’s population only 6% below its 2018 record high, having regained ~1.5% in the last two years, and now growing at an increasing rate. This historic context matters because population drives housing demand.

March 14, 2025 - According to the Census Bureau, international migration “accounted for nearly 2.7 million of the total population gain in U.S. metro areas” between 2023 and 2024, up from 2.2 million the previous year.

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