year rank population 1850 22 34776 1860 15 56802 1870 10 149473 1880 9 233959 1890 8 298997 1900 9 342782 1910 11 416912 1920 12 506676 1930 11 634394 1940 12 634536 1950 11 775357 1960 12 740316 1970 13 715674 1980 13 678974 1990 14 723959

Because of the gold rush, the population grew and the demographics changed. By 1860, San Francisco had more than · 50,000 people, and the population more than doubled in the following decade. From 1870 until the turn of the century, the rate of population growth became slower with each decade. Between 1900 and 1960 there was no consistent pattern.

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March 13, 2026 - This report presents statistics by census tracts on population and housing characteristics enumerated in the 1960 Censuses of Population and Housing, taken as of April 1, 1960.

June 15, 2026 - ↑ "IRISH San Francisco - FoundSF". www.foundsf.org. Retrieved January 29, 2024. ↑ "The Demographic Statistical Atlas of the United States - Statistical Atlas".

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July 7, 2020 - The populations of most cities in the historic ”core” of the Bay Area have not increased dramatically since 1960. It seems in many cases that the places with the most money grew in population the least. The growth rings are close together in San Francisco, along the Peninsula of San Mateo County, the western edges of Alameda and Contra Costa counties and southern Marin County.

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Access the most recent census population information for San Francisco, California, including a population profile and history.

June 19, 2026 - The overall population started falling and didn’t bottom out until the early 1980s, only recovering from the 1950 peak in 2000. But that recovery was driven almost entirely by a rapidly rising Asian population (thanks largely to 1960s immigration policy changes).

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Answer (1 of 3): San Francisco had more and different ethnic neighborhoods back then. The gay community was centered on Castro. The Black areas were Hunter’s Point/Bayview and in the Filmore. Generally, rich White people had the whole west-side. Jewish and Russian areas near Geary in the ...

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3 weeks ago - The San Francisco Federal Reserve Branch opened in 1914, and the city continued to develop as a major business city throughout the first half of the 20th century. Starting in the later half of the 1960s, San Francisco became the city most famous for the hippie movement.

SAN FRANCISCO EAY AREA · A Staff Report to the Commissioners · April 28, 1967 · 0 · 0 · INTRODUCTION · * The 1960 United States Census of Population reported that · 1,426,538 white persons of Spanish-surname then resided in the State · of California. Almost half of this number have ...

December 16, 2023 - The confluence of these two trends is seen most clearly in the rapid drop of the African American population. The population has declined by about a fifth in ten years, a drop unprecendented in American cities. I think most of these demographic trends in San Francisco are going to continue.