Alum Rock, California

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Back to Alum Rock, CA housing info, Santa Clara County, California, CA smaller cities, CA small cities, All Cities. We are giving away $1000 in prizes - enter simply by sending us your own city pictures! General Map Google Map MSN Map General Map Google Map MSN Map General Map Google Map MSN Map Please wait while loading the map... Current weather forecast for Alum Rock, CA Santa Clara County Population in July 2007: 13,845. Males: 7,090   (51.2%) Females: 6,755   (48.8%) Median resident age:   30.3 years California median age:   33.3 years Zip codes: 95127. Estimated median household income in 2008: $65,219 (it was $54,567 in 2000) Alum Rock:   $65,219 California:   $61,021 Estimated per capita income in 2008: $19,086 Estimated median house or condo value in 2008: $478,525 (it was $277,400 in 2000) Alum Rock:   $478,525 California:   $467,000 Mean prices in 2008: All housing units: $496,470; Detached houses: $505,195; Townhouses or other attached units: $493,960; Mobile homes: $27,500 Alum Rock, CA residents, houses, and apartments details Profiles of local businesses: Melissa's Beauty and Waxing Put your B&M business profile right here for free. 20,000 businesses already created their profiles! Business Search - 14 Million verified businesses Search for:  near:   Races in Alum Rock: Hispanic (67.0%) Other race (36.9%) White Non-Hispanic (19.9%) Two or more races (5.9%) Filipino (3.2%) American Indian (3.0%) Vietnamese (2.9%) Black (2.2%) Other Asian (0.8%) Japanese (0.7%) Chinese (0.6%) (Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races) Dec. 2009 cost of living index in Alum Rock: 161.7 (very high, U.S. average is 100) Recent posts about Alum Rock, California on our local forum with over 700,000 registered users. Alum Rock is mentioned 69 times on our forum: San Francisco or San Jose?  (176 replies) San Jose traffic  (45 replies) Which parts of San Jose has the most gang activity?  (53 replies) 10 things I won't miss about SV  (56 replies) How was California in the past?  (41 replies) Moving From Chicago to CA  (33 replies) Ancestries: Portuguese (4.1%), German (3.4%), Italian (3.2%), English (2.9%), Irish (2.5%), French (1.0%). Current Local Time: PST time zone Elevation: 149 feet Land area: 1.12 square miles. Population density: 12372 people per square mile   (very high).

Average climate in Alum Rock, California

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Alum Rock-area historical earthquake activity is slightly above California state average. It is 1879% greater than the overall U.S. average.

On 4/18/1906 at 13:12:21, a magnitude 7.9 (7.9 UK, Class: Major, Intensity: VIII - XII) earthquake occurred 77.8 miles away from Alum Rock center, causing $524,000,000 total damage
On 10/18/1989 at 00:04:15, a magnitude 7.1 (6.5 MB, 7.1 MS, 6.9 MW, 7.0 ML) earthquake occurred 18.1 miles away from the city center, causing 62 deaths (62 shaking deaths) and 3757 injuries, causing $1,305,032,704 total damage
On 4/24/1984 at 21:15:19, a magnitude 6.2 (5.7 MB, 6.1 MS, 6.2 MW, 6.2 ML, Class: Strong, Intensity: VII - IX) earthquake occurred 7.8 miles away from the city center
On 8/6/1979 at 17:05:22, a magnitude 5.9 (5.4 MB, 5.7 MS, 5.7 MW, 5.9 ML, Class: Moderate, Intensity: VI - VII) earthquake occurred 24.1 miles away from Alum Rock center
On 1/24/1980 at 19:00:09, a magnitude 5.9 (5.3 MB, 5.9 MS, 5.8 MW, 5.5 ML) earthquake occurred 24.5 miles away from the city center
On 1/27/1980 at 02:33:36, a magnitude 5.8 (5.0 MB, 5.0 MS, 5.8 ML) earthquake occurred 26.0 miles away from Alum Rock center
Magnitude types: body-wave magnitude (MB), local magnitude (ML), surface-wave magnitude (MS), moment magnitude (MW)

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Churches in Alum Rock include: Emmanuel Baptist Church (A), Green Valley Christian Church (B). Display/hide their locations on the map

Average household size:

This place:	4.0 people
California:	2.9 people

Percentage of family households:

This place:	81.8%
Whole state:	68.9%

Percentage of households with unmarried partners:

This place:	5.9%
Whole state:	5.9%

Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)

• Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
• Gay men: 0.2% of all households

This place:	10.9%
Whole state:	14.2%

This place:	5.6%
Whole state:	6.3%

Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Alum Rock, CA

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Here		43.3%
USA		50.2%

5.72% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($70,257 average adjusted gross income)

Here:	5.72%
California average:	5.75%

0.40% of residents moved from foreign countries ($1,896 average AGI)

Santa Clara County:	0.40%
California average:	0.21%

from Alameda County, CA	0.66% ($73,219 average AGI)
from San Mateo County, CA	0.64% ($108,860)
from Los Angeles County, CA	0.27% ($55,906)

6.20% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($81,994 average adjusted gross income)

Here:	6.20%
California average:	6.27%

0.19% of residents moved to foreign countries ($2,530 average AGI)

Santa Clara County:	0.19%
California average:	0.11%

to Alameda County, CA	0.64% ($84,443 average AGI)
to San Mateo County, CA	0.51% ($105,470)
to San Francisco County, CA	0.37% ($102,801)

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• #22 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of females working in industry: Computer and electronic products"
• #24 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of females working in industry: Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers (population 5,000+)"
• #35 on the list of "Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Other direct selling establishments (population 5,000+)"
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• #62 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the largest percentage of likely lesbian couples (counted as self-reported female-female unmarried-partner households) (population 5,000+)"
• #87 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the largest percentage of people in other group homes (population 5,000+)"
• #101 on the list of "Top 101 cities with the most Filipino residents"

• #36 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest carbon monoxide air pollution readings in 2005 (ppm)"
• #38 on the list of "Top 101 counties with the highest Nitrogen Dioxide air pollution readings in 2005 (ppm)"
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