Wikipedia
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San Francisco Bay Area - Wikipedia
5 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. The San Francisco Bay Area's population has the third-oldest median ...
Wikipedia
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San Francisco - Wikipedia
2 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 (13th-largest in the U.S.) and 9,164,058 residents ...
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 ·
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.
Statista
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San Francisco metro area population 2023 | Statista
In 2023, the population of the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan area in the United States was about 4.57 million people.
Bayareametro
census.bayareametro.gov › population
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.
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...
U.S. Census Bureau
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San Francisco city, California - Census Bureau Profile
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CA
bayareacensus.ca.gov
Bay Area Census: We've Moved
Bay Area Census has moved to census.bayareametro.gov. This new website contains detailed demographic, housing, and population data for the nine counties and 101 cities of the San Francisco Bay Area, updated through the 2020 U.S.
Reddit
reddit.com › r/bayarea › is it odd that the bay area isn't considered on single metro area/msa? do you agree that it should be two?
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.
Open Data Network
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Population Count Data for San Francisco Metro Area (CA)
Introducing the Open Data Network the new hub for the vibrant and growing open data ecosystem.
FRED
fred.stlouisfed.org › series › SFCPOP
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.
MACROTRENDS
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San Francisco Metro Area Population | Historical Data | Chart | 1950-2025 | MacroTrends
September 30, 2025 - The metro area population of San Francisco in 2024 was 3,343,000, a 0.45% increase from 2023.
Demographia
demographia.com › db-sf-migra.htm
San Francisco Metropolitan Area: 2000-2005 Population & Migration
San Francisco Metropolitan Area: 2000-2005 Population & Migration · POPULATION: 2000-2005 County 2000.04.01 2004.07.01 2005.07.01 Change 2000-2005 Annual % Change 2000-2005 Annual % Change 2004-2005 San Francisco County 776,733 743,193 739,426 (37,307) -0.91% -0.51% INNER 776,733 743,193 739,426 ...
Statistical Atlas
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The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States - Statistical Atlas
The least populous of the compared metro areas has a population of 1,135,503. Scope: population of the San Francisco Area and selected other metro areas in the United States
San Francisco Chronicle
sfchronicle.com › bayarea › article › sf-metro-population-loss-20218294.php
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.
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.
CA
vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov › indicators › population
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.
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.