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Population

• Bay Area- 481,361 of 6.7% of total Bay Area population (2010 UC Census Bureau)
• San Jose- 30,242 or 3.2% of total Bay Area population (2010 US Census Bureau)
• According to the San Francisco Chronicle's " 25% drop in African American Population in Oakland", Oakland has 106,637 African Americans, still the second largest black population in the state. Only Los Angeles, with 347,380 black people, has more - but they make up 9 percent of the population.
• Population demographics for African Americans in the Bay Area show a recent decline in their overall population.

Location

• Oakland has the largest African American population in the Bay Area, followed by San Francisco and then Richmond.
• From 2000 through 2008, Oakland remained the city with the  largest  Black population, although there was a 25%  decrease in this population over this time period. San Francisco had  the second largest  Black population, followed by Richmond with an 18% decrease.
• Significantly, "historically black" neighborhoods are showing major decline in their African American population, in proportion to other ethnicities.

Education

Race/Ethnicity: African American/Black	Percent
Alameda County	12.0%
Contra Costa County	8.5%
Fresno County	5.2%
Los Angeles County	8.0%
Orange County	1.2%
Riverside County	6.3%
Sacramento County	10.2%
San Bernardino County	10.4%
San Diego County	4.0%
Santa Clara County	2.1%

• The two counties with the highest rates of African American students are Alameda county and San Francisco county.
• According to the American Psychological Association, African Americans have the highest drop out rate compared to any other race.
• According to Amy Azzam's Neglecting High Achivers, "In addition to socioeconomic realities that may deprive students of valuable resources, high-achieving African American students may be exposed to less rigorous curriculums, attend schools with fewer resources, and  have teachers who expect less of them academically than they expect of similarly situated Caucasian students."
• In both The San Francisco and Alameda county, the high school drop out rate for African Americans is consistently higher than the county averages .
• Alameda County Dropout Rate= 34.6%
• San Francisco County Dropout Rate = 37.6%

Socioeconomic Status

• Median income for African Americans in Alameda County- $39,978 (Kidsdata.org)
• Median income for African Americans in San Francisco County- $28,819 (Kidsdata.org)
• Single mother African American households in California- 51.5% (KIdsdata.org)
• Single father African American households in California- 11.4% (Kidsdata.org)
• Married African American households in California- 37.2% (Kidsdata.org)
• According to the American Psychological Associaltion, African American children are three times more likely to live in poverty than Caucasian children.
• Unemployment rate in Alameda County for African Americans- 11.1% (County average- 5.5%)
• Unemployment rate in San Francisco County for African Americans- 12% (County average-4.5%)
• According to the American Psychological Association, unemployment rates for African Americans are typically double those of Caucasian Americans. African American men working full time earn 72 % of the average earnings of comparable Caucasian men and 85% of the earnings of Caucasian women.

Religion

• National Statistics:
• Protestant- 75.7%
• Catholic- 6.5%
• Jewish- 0.2%
• Other- 7.0%
• None- 10.6%
• Major Bay Area Churches
• Abundant Life Christian Fellowship Church- Evangelical
• Bayview Baptist Church
• Bayhill United Methodist Church

(According to Association of Religion Data Archives)