Politics & Government
U.S. Census Data Reveals Menlo Park Has More Male Than Female Super Nerds, But Barely
Population growth also noted within reports.
The population of Menlo Park, California grew four percent this past decade, according to U.S. Census data released late Tuesday afternoon.
Up 1,241 people from 2000, the number that will pop up when you google “population” and “Menlo Park” is now 32,026. Filtering that by age, sex, and education levels, I discovered a sub population of super nerds, an elite class of 18 to 24-year olds with graduate or professional degrees.
Ladies, I was a bit disappointed to discover that only 30 women fit that description, while 47 men did. That's a Justin Bieber of a difference. Curiously, the males resided primarily in two zip codes, 94025 and 94063, while the women lived all over in 2010. The reason for that could not be acquired by the time of this publication.
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San Mateo County experienced little growth as a whole, weighing in with a 1.6 percent population increase since 2000, which is average for counties along the California coast; most grew less than 10 percent. Census workers counted a total of 718,451 people in 2010 countywide.
The State of California's population rose 10 percent from April 2000 to the same month in 2010. It now has 37.2 million people in it, an increase of 3,382,308 people, at least half of whom will be trying to go north on 101 at the same time as me later today.
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In all it's glory, here is the full breakdown of how many men and women possess graduate or professional degrees in Menlo Park, within a table that pits that data with age and zip code information:
94027
94062
94063
Total: 24,158 30,448 5,294 20,142 22,995
Male:
11,285 14,471 2,511 9,837 12,514 18 to 24 years: 816 945 346 720 2,438 Graduate or professional degree 47 47 0 0 17 25 to 34 years: 2,707 3,361 149 1,522 3,588 Graduate or professional degree 986 1,274 49 394 167 35 to 44 years: 2,757 3,610 429 2,444 3,181 Graduate or professional degree 1,007 1,313 177 684 136 45 to 64 years: 3,041 4,193 962 3,710 2,561 Graduate or professional degree 1,308 1,783 651 1,079 118 65 years and over: 1,964 2,362 625 1,441 746 Graduate or professional degree 584 670 302 319 11
Female:
12,873
15,977
2,783
10,305
10,481
18 to 24 years: 888 1,053 192 605 1,898 Graduate or professional degree 30 30 5 10 9 25 to 34 years: 2,696 3,265 217 1,512 2,752 Graduate or professional degree 774 897 43 333 110 35 to 44 years: 2,697 3,462 521 2,607 2,403 Graduate or professional degree 884 1,095 177 638 119 45 to 64 years: 3,588 4,627 1,090 3,673 2,501 Graduate or professional degree 1,038 1,334 312 819 117 65 years and over: 3,004 3,570 763 1,908 927 Graduate or professional degreeCheck out the photos to the right to see where in town the males reside.
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