San Diego Population 2024

San Diego is largest city in U.S state of California, located on the Pacific coast of California known for its beaches, parks and warm climate. San Diego has earned the name California's beach city, with miles of sandy beaches and major attractions, San Diego is one of the best place of tourist spots and destinations to relax with its great weather. San Diego population in 2024 is estimated as 1.395 million, the area is 372.42 sq miles (964.56 sq.km). The San Diego River runs through the middle of San Diego from east to west, creating a river valley divides the city into northern and southern areas. San Diego County is home to over 20 fishable lakes, many of them are excellent fisheries.The San Diego's major sources of economy are tourism, military, trade and research and manufacturing.

• Contents
• Population Ranking
• Languages
• Population by Age
• Population by Race
• Nativity by Place of Birth
• History

Below is the San Diego population by year:

San Diego Population Ranking & Density

According to US Population Census, April 1, 2020, San Diego population in 2020 is estimated as 1,386,932, eighth largest city by rank in USA, Total Households in 2014-2018 are 503,463, 2.71 Persons per household, Median household income in 2018 is $75,456, Per capita income in past 12 months $39,066, 13.8% are Persons in poverty. 50.5% are Male and 49.5% are Female, 6.1% are under 5 years, 20% are under 18 years of age, 80% are 18 years and over and 13% are 65 years and over, Sex ratio is 102.0(males per 100 females). The median age is 35.4 years, 719,960 are Male and 706,039 are Female, 86,485 are under 5 years, 285,402 under 18 years, 1,140,597 are 18 years and over, 189,049 are 65 years and over. Total housing units are 554,896. San Diego population in 2023 is estimated as 1.39 million, population in 2022 is estimated as 1.39 million, and in 2021 is estimated as 1.38 Million.

Citizen Voting age and Population
978,087 are Citizen, 18 and over population, out of these 490,052 are Male and 488,035 are Female, percentage wise 50.1% are Male voters and 49.9% are Female voters.

San Diego Language demographics

San Diego population languages spoken at home 784,772 speak only English, 308,066 speak Spanish, 6,503 French (incl. Cajun), 263 Haitian, 3,332 German, 1,483 Greek, 8,341 Russian, 4,279 Italian, 6,490 Portuguese, 1,701 Yiddish, Pennsylvania Dutch or other West Germanic languages, 342 Polish, 608 Serbo-Croatian, 1,466 Ukrainian or other Slavic languages, 265 Armenian and 9,901 Persian (incl. Farsi, Dari).

People from India spoke Indian language include 4,464 Punjabi, 4,280 Telugu, 1,021 Tamil, 958 Malayalam, Kannada, or other Dravidian languages, 6,378 Hindi, 507 Urdu, 925 Gujarati, 2,034 Bengali, 1,991 Nepali, Marathi, or other Indic languages and 2,323 Other Indo-European languages.

People from East Asia languages include 37,341 speak Chinese (incl. Mandarin, Cantonese), 49,095 Tagalog (incl. Filipino), 7,021 Japanese, 35,280 Vietnamese, 10,089 Korean, 1,390 Hmong, 2,551 Khmer, 6,793 Thai, Lao, or other Tai-Kadai languages and 2,280 Other languages of Asia.

7,317 speak Arabic, 1,948 Ilocano, Samoan, Hawaiian, or other Austronesian languages, 2,176 Hebrew, 8,664 Amharic, Somali, or other Afro-Asiatic languages, 1,462 Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, or other languages of Western Africa,1,381 Swahili or other languages of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, 25 Navajo and 27 speak other Native languages of North America.

San Diego Population by Age

According to 2019 US population estimates, population of San Diego by age is 1,423,852, out of these 717,749 are male, 706,103 are female, The sex ratio of San Diego is 102. The median age of the San Diego population is 35.4, San Diego population by age are, under 18 years is 280,583, 16 years and over is 1,174,438, 18 years and over is 1,143,269, 21 years and over is 1,079,604, 65 years and over is 234344. 50.4% are male, 49.6% are female, 19.7% are under 18 years old, 82.5% are 16 years and over, 80.3% are 18 years and over, 75.8% are 21 years and over, 13.4% are 65 years and over. There are total 556,735 housing units, The voting population of San Diego are 1,002,022, out of these 505,022 are male voters, 497,000 are female voters, 50.4% are male,49.6% are female.

San Diego Population by Race

White Population

White population in San Diego, California are 931,529, percentage wise they are 65.4 percent.

Black Population

Black population in San Diego, California are 87,265, Percentage wise they are 6.1 percent of people. African American refers to black population in San Diego, They are Black racial groups of Africa, includes Sub-Saharan African people, Kenyan, Nigerian, Carribbean such as Haitian and Jamaican.

Asian Population

Asian population in San Diego are 242,168 17.0 percent in total population, out of these 31,232 are Asian Indians, 47,829 are Chinese, 79,220 are Filipinos, 8,301 are Japanese, 14,944 are Korean, 36,717 are Vietnamese and 23,925 are other Asian nationals.

Hispanic Population

Hispanic population in San Diego, California are 431,477. Percentage wise they are 30.3, out of these 378,302 are Mexican people, 10,920 are Puerto Ricans, 3,676 are Cubans, and 38,579 are other Hispanic or Latinos.

Nativity by Place of Birth

Total San Diego native population is 1,065,415, out of these 673,261 born in the California state and 365,705 born in other state in the United States. Foreign born or Population born outside the US are 358,437, out of these 206,788 are Naturalised US citizen, 21,444 are in Europe, 108,348 in Asia, 10,565 in Africa, 61,746 in Latin America and 3,336 in Northern America. Total Foreigners who are non US citizens living in San Diego are 151,649, out of these 10,765 are from Europe, 57,783 are from Asia, 5,090 from Africa, 75,648 are from Latin America and 1,827 are from Northern America.

San Diego History