Rancho Santa Fe is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,156 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rancho Santa Fe is the 605th largest community in California. Rancho Santa Fe home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Rancho Santa Fe real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.Rancho Santa Fe is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 93.15% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rancho Santa Fe is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rancho Santa Fe who work in business and financial occupations (28.09%), sales jobs (16.94%), and management occupations (8.74%). Of important note, Rancho Santa Fe is also a town of artists. Rancho Santa Fe has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Rancho Santa Fe’s character. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 32.26% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. In addition, Rancho Santa Fe is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre. Because of many things, Rancho Santa Fe is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Rancho Santa Fe really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rancho Santa Fe perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. In Rancho Santa Fe, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.06 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Rancho Santa Fe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Rancho Santa Fe, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Rancho Santa Fe is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 71.81% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%. The per capita income in Rancho Santa Fe in 2022 was $105,195, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $420,780 for a family of four. Rancho Santa Fe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rancho Santa Fe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rancho Santa Fe residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Rancho Santa Fe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.11% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Rancho Santa Fe include German, English, Italian, Swedish, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Rancho Santa Fe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
