Wikipedia
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San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia
1 day 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
4,566,961 Population · 2,469.8 square miles 1,849.1 people per square mile · Census data: ACS 2023 1-year unless noted · Hover for margins of error and contextual data. 40.7 ±0.2 Median age · a little higher than the figure in United States: 39.2 ±0.1 ·
Wikipedia
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San Francisco - Wikipedia
7 hours 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 (13th-largest in the U.S.) and 9,164,058 residents ...
MacroTrends
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San Francisco Metro Area Population (1950-2025) | MacroTrends
The metro area population of San Francisco in 2024 was 3,343,000, a 0.45% increase from 2023.
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 13, 2012One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire
I'm pretty sure they took the number of Billionaires in the Bay Area and divided by the population of San Francisco. I highly doubt there are 80 billionaires living in San Francisco, plus all the rest that are spread around the Bay Area.
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November 16, 2015San Francisco, California 🌁🇺🇸 second most dense major city in the U.S.
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April 28, 2024Statista
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San Francisco metro area population 2023 | Statista
October 16, 2024 - In 2023, the population of the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan area in the United States was about 4.57 million people.
Bayareametro
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Population - San Francisco - Bay Area Census
Total Population in 2020In 2020, San Francisco was home to 873,965 people. Residents were predominantly working age, while those 65 and older were a larger segment of the community than those under 18.
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.
Census Reporter
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San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metro Division - Profile data - Census Reporter
Census data for San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, CA Metro Division (pop. 1,535,341), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
FRED
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Resident Population in San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (MSA) (SFCPOP) | FRED | St. Louis Fed
May 19, 2023 - Graph and download economic data for Resident Population in San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (MSA) (SFCPOP) from 2000 to 2022 about San Francisco, residents, CA, population, and USA.
U.S. Census Bureau
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San Francisco city, California - Census Bureau Profile
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Socialexplorer
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San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA Metro Area
Profile of U.S. metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with Demographics, Economics, Families, Housing, Income and more. Population 4,725,584 , Area...
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.
Data Commons
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San Francisco - Data Commons
Statistics about economics, health, equity, crime, education, demographics, housing, and environment in San Francisco.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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San Francisco | History, Population, Climate, Map, & Facts | Britannica
1 week 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–...
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.
CA
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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.
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.
Bayareametro
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Most Populous Demographics - Bay Area Census
Total Population in 2020In 2020, the Bay Area was home to 7,765,640 people. Residents were predominantly working age, while those under 18 were a larger segment of the region than those 65 and older.
Census Reporter
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San Francisco, CA - Profile data - Census Reporter
a little less than the figure in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA Metro Area: 31.7 59,174,408 (±0.3 / ±838,261)
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.