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Northern of and Oakland Divisions

The District Del Norte Court of the Northern is comprised of three divisions: San Francisco,

Oakland, and San Jose. This report focuses Humboldt on the San Francisco and Oakland Divisions. The San Francisco and Oakland courthouses call jurors from the following : San Mendocino Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Lake , Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma Napa Humboldt, and Del Norte Counties. With Santa Rosa Napa Petaluma a population of 1,584,983, Alameda is the Contra Costa Marin largest in the venue, representing San Rafael San Francisco San Francisco Daly City Alameda roughly 29 percent of the venue’s total San Mateo Redwood City population. It is followed by Contra Costa San Mateo County, which has a population of 1,096,068. Juror lists are pulled from voter registration rolls and records from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

The Northern District and the rest of California became formally integrated into the United States in 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War. That same year, the ’s fame and population exploded as a result of the California rush. The Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1868, had its westernmost stop in Oakland, which by the mid-19th century had become an important California seaport. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 led to a large influx of to the .

Trade and investments poured in from the east coast, and the region continued to thrive throughout the mid-19th century. San Francisco remained the largest American city west of the until 1920, when it was outpaced by . The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a huge influx of Chinese immigrants, who came first to work in the gold mines and later on the Transcontinental Railroad. To this day, San Francisco has one of the largest Chinese populations outside of China. Many

www.thefocalpoint.com | © The Focal Point LLC 2018 large corporations still operating today were founded during San Francisco’s mid-19th century population explosion, including Bank, & Co, and Ghirardelli Chocolate Company.

Until the late 19th century, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties were largely rural areas, comprised of farms and orchards. However with the rise in population in the early 20th century and the increase in public transportation options, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties became suburban feeders for nearby San Francisco.

In the early 20th century, San Francisco developed into a powerful financial center. In fact, not a single San Francisco-based bank failed after the stock market crash of 1929. During the that followed, San Franciscans used city bonds to build the Bay Bridge and the Bridge, both of which are now world-renowned. Throughout World War II, San Francisco was the main point of departure and supply point for the war in the Pacific.

The Bay Bridge connecting Oakland and San Francisco was completed in 1936, and by the early 1970’s, the Bay Area system (BART) connected the East Bay to San Francisco and the , providing Bay Area residents with even more commuting options. A recent study of San Francisco employees found that over 265,000 workers commute to San Francisco County from outlying counties, and 45 percent of these commuters come from Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

During the dotcom-boom of the 1990s, software companies and entrepreneurs flocked to San Francisco, reshaping the city’s social and economic landscape. With high-tech hub located just 35 miles south of the center of San Francisco, the venue continues to be heavily influenced by the tech industry and very hospitable to entrepreneurial businesses.

The city of San Francisco comprises about 15 percent of the venue’s population. With over 840,000 residents, it is the thirteenth largest city in the United States. It is also one of the most diverse U.S. cities: Approximately 35 percent of its citizens were born outside of the U.S., and nearly 112,000 are not U.S. citizens. The continuous influx of immigrants from both outside the United States and the African-American war industry workers from the Deep South who traveled to the area in the 1940s, have contributed to the region’s ethnic diversity. This trend has slowed in recent years and a recent study indicates that the ethinic diversity in the city is reversing. A recent study by PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of , found that by 2040 white residents are expected to outnumber minority residents in San Francisco, while minority residents will make up the majority in surrounding counties like Alameda and Contra Costa. Approximately 45 percent of San Francisco County residents speak a language other than English at home. As of 2014, San Francisco ordiance requires three foregin languages (Chinese, Spanish, and Tagalog) to be used in addition to English for official city interactions with the public. San Francisco is one of the nation’s largest “sanctuary cities”, which have policies in place to help protect undocumented immigrants. The largest immigrant populations are of and Asian origin. The Asian population across the entire venue is 20 percent, and it is 33 percent in San Francisco County, compared to 13 percent

www.thefocalpoint.com | © The Focal Point LLC 2018 statewide. In fact, approximately 26 percent residents of San Francisco speak an Asian language at home. The region also has a large LGBT community, with approximately 6 percent of its residents identifying as such. Moreover, San Francisco has the highest percentage of same-sex households of any city in the U.S.

Population San Francisco/Oakland Division California Statewide

Total Population 5,478,791 38,421,464 White 45.4% 38.7% Hispanic 22.2% 38.4% Black 6.5% 5.6% Asian 20.6% 13.5%

The educational attainment in this venue as a whole and San Francisco County in particular significantly exceeds the statewide and national averages. While just fewer than 40 percent of California residents have a high school degree or less, only 29.8 percent of residents in the division do. Moreover, 31.4 percent of California residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 42.9 percent in the venue as a whole and 53.8 percent in San Francisco.

There is also great diversity within the venue. For example, in the city of Oakland 19.6 percent of the population does not have a high school diploma. In comparison, only 4.3 percent of the population in neighboring Berkeley has not graduated high school. As the home of the , Berkeley, it is not surprising that 71 percent of the population of the city of Berkeley have a Bachelor’s or post-graduate degree. In addition to UC Berkeley, the venue is home to a number of colleges and universities including: California State University, East Bay; ; ; San Francisco State University; University of California, San Francisco; University of California Hastings College of Law; and University of .

Education San Francisco/Oakland Division California Statewide

High School or Less 29.8% 38.9% Some College or Associate’s Degree 27.3% 29.6% Bachelor’s Degree 26.0% 19.8% Graduate or Professional Degree 16.9% 11.6%

Since the social revolutions of the 1960s, San Francisco County has been a Democratic stronghold. Indeed, the last Republican presidential nominee to win San Francisco was Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. 58 percent of voters are registered Democrats, and 7 percent are registered Republicans. Despite its liberal slant, San Francisco also has the highest percentage of unaffiliated voters of any county in California (31%). The rest of the venue is also solidly Democratic with the exception of tiny Del Norte County, which tends to vote Republican in both presidential and

www.thefocalpoint.com | © The Focal Point LLC 2018 congressional elections. A few affluent areas of Contra Costa County—such as the city of Danville—have more registered Republicans than Democrats.

2016 Presidential Election Clinton Trump

Alameda County 79.3% 14.9% Contra Costa County 68.9% 25.4% Del Norte County 37.2% 54.8% Humboldt County 58.3% 32.4% Lake County 47.8% 44.1% Marin County 78.8% 15.9% Mendocino County 60.4% 31.2% Napa County 64.8% 29.6% San Francisco County 85.5% 9.4% San Mateo County 76.4% 18.7% Sonoma County 70.7% 22.8%

The venue is not only one of the most highly educated parts of California, it is also one of the wealthiest and most expensive. The median household income of the venue as a whole ($77,414) significantly exceeds the statewide average of $63,599. Real estate in the Bay Area is among the most expensive in the nation. The median value of owner-occupied housing units in San Francisco ($799,600) is almost double that of the statewide median ($413,853). As a result, the home ownership rate in San Francisco is only 36.4 percent, compared to 54.3 percent across California. San Francisco continues have the highest average rent at $3,441 and Contra Costa County is the lowest at $2,341.

The Bay Area also encompasses significant economic diversity. Unemployment rates in the Bay Area are generally lower than of the the state at 2.2 percent as of December of 2017. However, Del Norte County has an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent. Also notable is the fact that Contra Costa County is home to two of the 25 wealthiest cities in California: Alamo and Danville.

Household Data San Francisco/Oakland Division California Statewide

Median Value of Home $566,459 $413,853 Median Household Income $77,414 $63,599 Home Ownership 54.6% 54.3%

The Area is one of the world’s strongest economic centers. With a GDP of $535 billion, the Bay Area ranks 19th worldwide compared to other national economies. Moreover, it has the highest GDP per capita in the U.S. and has outpaced the rest of the county in economic growth for five consecutive years. While the Bay Area is best known for its booming technology sector in recent years, banking and finance, , and biomedical research are also major economic industries. The Bay Area has the largest concentration of national laboratories, www.thefocalpoint.com | © The Focal Point LLC 2018 corporate and private research labs, and top research universities in the U.S. What is more, San Francisco ranks fifteenth out of the world’s top twenty financial centers. The high-tech revolution that has grown out of Silicon Valley over the last few has helped turn San Francisco into an international hub for innovative business and technology development across a variety of sectors, including information technology and digital media, life sciences, healthcare, clean technology, retail, and hospitality. Several of the most popular and start-up companies are headquartered in San Francisco, such as , , , , , and . Nevertheless, even though the tech industry has been responsible for much of the job growth in San Francisco over the past several years, it still only accounts for roughly 8 percent of private-sector jobs in the city.

Over the past decade, there has been significant investment and growth in small East Bay businesses and start-up companies, particularly in the sectors of green technology, renewable companies, and organic foods. According to Inc. Magazine, the East Bay was home to six of the “Inc. 500 Fastest- growing Companies” in 2012. The headquarters of many companies related to green technology including a number of solar energy, renewable energy, recycling, and biofuel companies can be found here. Additionally, Tesla Motors, the Palo Alto-based maker of electric vehicles, purchased the Nummi Plant—a former and manufacturing plant in Alameda County—in 2010 and started production at the facility in 2012.

The region is home to the highest concentration of Certified Benefit Corporations or “B Corps” on the planet with 15 percent of them located in the San Francisco, North Bay, and Berkeley area. B Corps are companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environment performance, accountability and transparency. B Corps are typically companies focused on social and environmental issues and whose corporate missions and values focus on connection and giving back to their communities. B Corporations in the East Bay include Numi Organic Tea and Plum Organics. Oakland is also home to Fair Trade USA, a major nonprofit organization that audits transactions between U.S. companies and their global suppliers. Fair Trade USA provides third-party certification that goods are produced in safe and environmentally conscious working conditions and that the workers are paid fair prices or wages for those products.

According to the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, science and are expected to be among the fastest-growing subsectors of the East Bay economy over the decade. Several major pharmaceutical companies maintain research facilities here, and this area is also home to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—a federally funded research center related to defense and energy technologies. Additionally, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which is a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory, is housed on the campus of UC Berkeley.

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Government and Education Medical and Technology Corporate, Financial, and Retail • City and County of • Pacific Gas and Electric • Wells Fargo Bank San Francisco Company • Gap Inc. • U.S. Postal Service • Oracle Corp. • Visa Inc. • County of San Mateo • • Williams-Sonoma Inc. • San Francisco Municipal • • LucasArts Entertainment Co. Transportation Agency • Autodesk Inc. • Macy’s • University of California, • BioMarin Berkeley • Co. • Lawrence Livermore National • Chevron Corp. • University of California, Laboratory San Francisco • Safeway • Inc. • San Francisco Unified • Tesla Motors School District •

The following resources were used in the construction of this document: BART () Bay Area Council Economic Institute Baybridgeinfo.org Bloomberg.com City and County of San Francisco County of Alameda County of Contra Costa East Bay Economic Development Alliance Forbes.com KQED News Policy Link Rand California Education Statistics San Francisco Business Times San Francisco Center for Economic Development San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development San Francisco Unified School District SFGate.com The U.S. Census Bureau www.thefocalpoint.com | © The Focal Point LLC 2018