Wikipedia
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San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia
12 hours 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. The San Francisco Bay Area's population has the third-oldest median ...
Census Reporter
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San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area - Profile data - Census Reporter
Census data for San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area (pop. 4,566,961), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
Wikipedia
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List of North American metropolitan areas by population - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - This is a list of the fifty most populous metropolitan areas in North America. Where available, it uses official definitions of metropolitan areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings, as opposed to polycentric conurbations.
Citypopulation
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San Francisco - Oakland - Fremont (Metropolitan Statistical Area, Metropolitan Areas, USA) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location
San Francisco - Oakland - Fremont (Metropolitan Statistical Area, Metropolitan Areas, USA) with population statistics, charts, map and location.
Is it odd that the Bay Area isn't considered on single metro area/MSA? Do you agree that it should be two?
Combined statistical areas serve this purpose and the bay area is indeed the 6th largest one of those, albeit with a larger population than your 6.5 From the wiki for MSAs, describing the Core Based Statistical Areas MSAs are defined by: CBSAs are delineated on the basis of a central contiguous area of relatively high population density, known as an urban area or urban cluster. The counties containing the core urban area are known as the central counties of the CBSA; these are defined as having at least 50% of their population living in urban areas of at least 10,000 in population So it sounds like the Bay Area is not one MSA because MSA's are not intended to be so multipolar. More on reddit.com
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October 4, 2023San Francisco Metro Area Population Grew By 60,000 Last Year
Still waiting for that crash that everyone who's moving to Austin and Portland keep predicting...
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October 11, 2012How did San Francisco lost so much population in only three years??
SF is pretty expensive. A lot of folks who left work in tech and don’t actually need to be in person, so they left for cheaper pastures. That’s my explanation. I refuse to look up any data to back this up! More on reddit.com
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December 26, 2024San Francisco’s population drops again as city struggles to retain residents
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May 4, 2025CA
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Population - Vital Signs - SF Bay Area
In 2025, almost 7.7 million people lived in the nine-county, 7,000-square-mile Bay Area region. Residents are spread throughout the 101 cities and in various unincorporated communities, the size and density of which vary widely.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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San Francisco | History, Population, Climate, Map, & Facts | Britannica
3 days ago - (2010) 805,235; San Francisco–San Mateo–Redwood City Metro Division, 1,776,095; San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont Metro Area, 4,335,391; (2020) 873,965; San Francisco–San Mateo–Redwood City Metro Division, 1,638,407; San Francisco–...
MacroTrends
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San Francisco Metro Area Population (1950-2026) | MacroTrends
The metro area population of San Francisco in 2025 was 3,363,000, a 0.6% increase from 2024.
World Population Review
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San Francisco, California Population 2025
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.
USGS
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A Brief History of Population Growth in the Greater San ...
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.
Wikipedia
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San Francisco - Wikipedia
3 days ago - Depending on how its borders are defined, the broader San Francisco Bay Area is home to 4.6–9.2 million residents. In 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an estimated population of 4,648,486 for the city's metropolitan statistical area ...
Encyclopedia Britannica
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San Francisco Bay Area | metropolitan region, California, United States | Britannica
3 weeks ago - Other articles where San Francisco Bay Area is discussed: California: Population composition: The San Francisco Bay Area became a haven for gay men and lesbians in the years following World War II and was among the first U.S. cities to issue antidiscrimination ordinances on the basis of sexual ...
Census Reporter
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San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metro Division - Profile data - Census Reporter
about 10 percent higher than the rate in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area: 32.8% 1,499,160 · more than double the rate in United States: 14.3% 47,831,412 · 2.6% ±0.2% (33,349 ±3,014) Population with veteran status
Statista
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San Francisco metro area population 2023 | Statista
November 28, 2025 - In 2023, the population of the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan area in the United States was about 4.57 million people.
San Francisco Chronicle
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S.F. metro still leads the nation in population loss this decade
March 13, 2025 - But as of July 2024, the metro area’s population was still down 2.2% from April 2020, the biggest percentage loss among the country’s most populous regions. The city of San Francisco was down almost 51,000 people, or 5.8% in that period.
Data Commons
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San Francisco - Data Commons
Statistics about economics, health, equity, crime, education, demographics, housing, and environment in San Francisco.
Pew Research Center
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People in the San Francisco metro area | Religious Landscape Study (RLS) | Pew Research Center
The Religious Landscape Study is a comprehensive survey of more than 35,000 Americans’ religious identities, beliefs and practices that’s been conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24. Pew Research Center.
Citypopulation
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San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland (Combined Statistical Area, Combined Metropolitan Areas, USA) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location
San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland (Combined Statistical Area, Combined Metropolitan Areas, USA) with population statistics, charts, map and location.
Reddit
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r/bayarea on Reddit: Is it odd that the Bay Area isn't considered on single metro area/MSA? Do you agree that it should be two?
October 4, 2023 -
Rankings of largest MSAs in the US have SF-Oakland-Fremont at No. 13 with approx 4.6 million people, and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara at No. 23 with just under 2 million people (2022 estimates from wiki). Together they'd be 6.5-6.6 million and the sixth largest MSA in the country, at least for now. Seems like a unified whole to me.
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Yes it's odd. I'm from the GTA, it's roughly the same size. LA metro also makes the Bay look tiny.
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Combined statistical areas serve this purpose and the bay area is indeed the 6th largest one of those, albeit with a larger population than your 6.5 From the wiki for MSAs, describing the Core Based Statistical Areas MSAs are defined by: CBSAs are delineated on the basis of a central contiguous area of relatively high population density, known as an urban area or urban cluster. The counties containing the core urban area are known as the central counties of the CBSA; these are defined as having at least 50% of their population living in urban areas of at least 10,000 in population So it sounds like the Bay Area is not one MSA because MSA's are not intended to be so multipolar.
California Movers
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San Francisco Bay Area population 2023 | California Movers USA
January 25, 2022 - Before moving to San Francisco, it is very important to know what is the population of San Francisco. According to the 2023 US population Census, San Francisco Bay Area population is around 883,255. This city is the 17th largest city in the US.
Quora
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Would San Francisco be the 2nd largest metro area in the US and 2nd biggest on I-80 if there wasn't any geographic limitations? - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): It’s unlikely. “No geographic limitations” is like saying “if we could terraform the entire western US to get rid of all of the mountains.” But then doing so would also get rid of most of the fresh water which would make it a lot more difficult to support a large population.