Belmont, California | |
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 Location of Belmont in San Mateo County, California | |
  Belmont, California Location in the United States | |
| Coordinates:37°31′5″N122°17′30″W / 37.51806°N 122.29167°W /37.51806; -122.29167 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Mateo |
| Incorporated | October 29, 1926[1] |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Julia Mates[2] |
| • City council[5] | Robin Pang-Maganaris, Vice Mayor Tom McCune Gina Latimerlo Cathy Jordan |
| • US Representative | Kevin Mullin (D)[3] |
| • State Senator | Josh Becker (D)[4] |
| • Assemblymember | Diane Papan (D)[4] |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.64 sq mi (12.01 km2) |
| • Land | 4.63 sq mi (11.99 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0077 sq mi (0.02 km2) 0.19% |
| Elevation | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 28,335 |
| • Density | 6,120.4/sq mi (2,363.11/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 94002 |
| Area code | 650 |
| FIPS code | 06-05108 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1658029,2409826 |
| Website | www |
Belmont is a city inSan Mateo County, California, United States. It is in theSan Francisco Bay Area, on theSan Francisco Peninsula about halfway betweenSan Francisco andSan Jose. It was originally part ofRancho de las Pulgas, for which one of its main roads, the Alameda de las Pulgas, is named. The city was incorporated in 1926. Its population was 28,335 at the2020 census.
Ralston Hall is a historic landmark built byBank of California founderWilliam Chapman Ralston on the campus ofNotre Dame de Namur University, and is also home toNotre Dame High School. It was built around a villa formerly owned by CountLeonetto Cipriani [fr], an Italian aristocrat. The locally famous "Waterdog Lake" is also located in the foothills and highlands of Belmont. A surviving structure from thePanama–Pacific International Exposition is on Belmont Avenue (another is thePalace of Fine Arts in San Francisco). The building was brought to Belmont by E.D. Swift shortly after theexposition closed in 1915.
The city is bordered bySan Mateo to the north, theSan Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Peninsula Watershed of the to the west,Redwood Shores to the east, andSan Carlos to the south.
Belmont has asmoking ordinance, passed in January 2009, which bans smoking in all businesses and multi-story apartments and condominiums; the ordinance has been described asone of the strictest in the nation.
The name is believed to derive from theItalianbel monte, meaning "beautiful mountain." The town was named for the "symmetrically rounded eminence" nearby.[8]
Belmont is located at37°31′5″N122°17′30″W / 37.51806°N 122.29167°W /37.51806; -122.29167 (37.518087, -122.291673).[9]
According to theUnited States Census Bureau, the city has a land area of 4.63 square miles (12.0 km2)[10][11] and 0.009 square miles (0.023 km2) of water.[11]
| Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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| 1880 | 202 | — | |
| 1930 | 984 | — | |
| 1940 | 1,229 | 24.9% | |
| 1950 | 5,567 | 353.0% | |
| 1960 | 15,996 | 187.3% | |
| 1970 | 23,538 | 47.1% | |
| 1980 | 24,505 | 4.1% | |
| 1990 | 24,127 | −1.5% | |
| 2000 | 25,123 | 4.1% | |
| 2010 | 25,835 | 2.8% | |
| 2020 | 28,335 | 9.7% | |
| U.S. Decennial Census[12] | |||
Belmont's population in2020 was reported as 28,335. The population density was 6,119.9 inhabitants per square mile (2,362.9/km2).[10] Theracial makeup of the city was 14,248 (50.3%)White, 370 (1.3%) Black orAfrican American, 102 (0.4%)American Indian and Alaska Native, 8,398 (29.6%)Asian, 148 (0.5%)Native Hawaiian and OtherPacific Islander, 1,527 (5.4%) Some Other Race, and 3,542 (12.5%)two or more races. The largest mixed-race groups were White and Some Other Race (1,345, 4.7%) and White and Asian (1,312, 4.6%).[13] 3,523 residents (12.4%) wereHispanic or Latino (of any race).[14] Among the residents who were not Hispanic or Latino, 13,572 wereWhite, 348 were Black or African American, 22 were American Indian and Alaska Native, 8,330 were Asian, 132 were Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders, 300 were of other races, and 2,108 were of two or more races.[14] 2020 was the first recent census in which non-Hispanic White people were not the majority of the population in Belmont (47.9%). Among Hispanic and Latino residents, 676 identified their race asWhite, 22Black or African American, 80 American Indian and Alaska Native, 68Asian, 16 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, 1,227 Some Other Race, and 1,434 two or more races. 1,021 Hispanic or Latino residents identified their race as both White and Some Other Race.[13][14]
There were 11,169 housing units, of which 10,705 were occupied and 464 were vacant.[15]
722 people (2.5%) were living in group quarters, including 203 innursing facilities, 339 in college/university student housing, and 180 in other facilities.[16]
22,198 people (78.3%) were 18 years old or older,[17] while 6,137 (21.7%) were younger than 18 years old.[13][17]
In 2023, the US Census Bureau estimated that the median household income was $207,609, and theper capita income was $98,669. About 4.4% of families and 6.5% of the population were below the poverty line.[18]
At the2010 census Belmont had a population of 25,835. The population density was 5,579.8 inhabitants per square mile (2,154.4/km2). The racial makeup of Belmont was 17,455 (67.6%) White, 420 (1.6%) African American, 72 (0.3%) Native American, 5,151 (19.9%) Asian, 198 (0.8%) Pacific Islander, 964 (3.7%) from other races, and 1,572 (6.1%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2,977 persons (11.5%).[19]
The census reported that 25,321 people (98.0% of the population) lived in households, 394 (1.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 120 (0.5%) were institutionalized.
There were 10,575 households, 3,251 (30.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 5,630 (53.2%) wereopposite-sex married couples living together, 830 (7.8%) had a female householder with no husband or wife present, 391 (3.7%) had a male householder with no wife or husband present. There were 510 (4.8%)unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 96 (0.9%)same-sex married couples or partnerships. 2,904 households (27.5%) were one person and 997 (9.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.39. There were 6,851 families (64.8% of households); the average family size was 2.95.
The age distribution was 5,395 people (20.9%) under the age of 18, 1,668 people (6.5%) aged 18 to 24, 7,645 people (29.6%) aged 25 to 44, 7,284 people (28.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,843 people (14.9%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 40.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.5 males.
There were 11,028 housing units at an average density of 2,381.8 per square mile, of the occupied units 6,280 (59.4%) were owner-occupied and 4,295 (42.0%) were rented. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.2%. 16,473 people (63.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 8,848 people (34.2%) lived in rental housing units.
In May 2009, Belmont was ranked 11th on Forbes list of "America's Top 25 Towns to Live Well."[20]
In theCalifornia State Legislature, Belmont is inthe 13th senatorial district, represented byDemocrat Josh Becker, and inthe 21st Assembly district, represented byDemocrat Diane Papan.[4]
Federally, Belmont is inCalifornia's 15th congressional district, represented byDemocrat Kevin Mullin.[3]
According to theCalifornia Secretary of State, as of February 10, 2019, Belmont has 15,827 registered voters. Of those, 7,678 (48.5%) are registeredDemocrats, 2,540 (16%) are registeredRepublicans, and 4,994 (31.6%) havedeclined to state a political party.[21]
The city is served by the Belmont Public Library of theSan Mateo County Libraries, a member of thePeninsula Library System.
The city has a number of parks. This includes Twin Pines Park, Waterdog Lake Open Space,[22] Semeria Park andDavey Glen Park.
Child education is provided by public and private facilities. Students in Belmont are eligible to receive public schooling through two school districts:[23] Belmont-Redwood Shores School District (kindergarten throughmiddle school)[24] andSequoia Union High School District (high school).[25] There are also several private schools.[23] The privateCharles Armstrong School specializes in language-based learning differences, such asdyslexia.
The city's largest hotel isHyatt House, which is an apartment hotel and caters mostly to a business clientele, due to its proximity toOracle headquarters.
In January 2009, Belmont adopted an ordinance that bans smoking in city parks, all businesses, and all multi-story apartments and condominiums. The policy, which has been described as perhaps the strictest anti-smoking law in the nation, was the result of a group of retirees lobbying the city to stop secondhand smoke from drifting into their apartments from neighboring places. Public health advocates consider the ordinance to be a new front in a national battle against tobacco; officials from theAmerican Lung Association of California said "Belmont broke through this invisible barrier in the sense that it addressed drifting smoke in housing as a public health issue."[26]
The public schools in Belmont are highly rated.[27] The public schools in Belmont are run by theBelmont – Redwood Shores School District (BRSSD).[28] The public high school in Belmont,Carlmont High School, however, is inSequoia Union High School District.[29]
SamTrans provides local bus service within Belmont as well as the entire county of San Mateo.Caltrain provides commuter rail service on the San Francisco Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose includingBelmont station in the city, andHillsdale station in southern San Mateo city, near the border. Caltrain also goes as far south asGilroy.
According to the city's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[33] the top employers in 2021 were:
| # | Employer | # of Employees |
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| 1 | RingCentral, Inc. | 693 |
| 2 | Autobahn Motors | 129 |
| 3 | Safeway Store #1138 | 112 |
| 4 | Volkswagen Group of America | 109 |
| 5 | Nikon Precision, Inc. | 95 |
| 6 | Silverado Senior Living | 95 |
| 7 | Lunardi's Market | 82 |
| 8 | James Electronics Ltd. | 62 |
| 9 | Woodmont Real Estate Services | 57 |
| 10 | Merry Moppet Preschool, Inc. | 55 |
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