City Snapshot

Perfect location. Steady growth. Strategic planning. Vibrant community. Well-educated workforce.

Location

Union City is located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, at the northern end of Silicon Valley.

Transportation is thriving. The city is in close proximity to the San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose International Airports, and is easily accessible to the Port of Oakland.

The city is served by passenger and freight rail systems, has a busy BART station serving commuters, and is at the crossroads of major interstate highways and regional bridge routes across the Bay.

Residential Profiles

Money & Brains Upscale, Older Mix 26.4% The residents of Money & Brains seem to have it all:  high incomes, advanced degrees, and sophisticated tastes to match their credentials.  Many of these city dwellers are married couples with few children who live in fashionable homes on small, manicured lots.

Young Digerati Upscale, Younger Family MIx 21.3% Young Digerati are tech-savvy and live in fashionable neighborhoods on the urban fringe. Affluent, highly educated, and ethnically mixed, Young Digerati communities are typically filled with trendy apartments and condos, fitness clubs and clothing boutiques, casual restaurants and all types of bars- from juice to coffee to microbrew.

American Dream Upper Mid, Middle Age Mix 7.9 % American Dreams is a living example of how ethnically diverse the nation has become:  more than half the residents are Hispanic, Asian, or African-American.  In these multilingual neighborhoods- one in ten speaks a language other than English- middle-aged immigrants and their children live in middle-class comfort.

Bohemian Mix Midscale, Middle Age Mix 6.2% A collection of mobile urbanites, Bohemian Mix represents the nation’s most liberal lifestyles.  Its residents are an ethnically diverse, progressive mix of young singles, couples, and families ranging from students to professionals.  In their funky row houses and apartments, Bohemian Mixers are the early adopters who are quick to check out the latest movie, nightclub, laptop, and microbrew.

Key Demographics

Population: 75,054
Home Ownership Rate: 71.3%
Residents with a College Degree : 44%
Management, Professional, Technical, and Scientific Occupations: 48%
Sales and Office Occupations: 25.8%
Education Services and Healthcare Occupations: 19.3%

Residential Income and Benefits:
$75,000 - $99,999 - 15.4%
$100,000 - $150,000 - 22.3%
$150,000 - $200,000 - 11.8%
$200,000 and over - 7.2%

Commercial History

Union City has long been a center for commerce, going back to its roots in 1846, when a group of entrepreneurs moved into an abandoned Franciscan mission barracks. Over the next few years the group expanded the area by building wharves, warehouses, businesses, farms and irrigation systems.

Throughout the 1990's the city prospered and grew as a gateway to Silicon Valley, offering the attractive combination of affordable housing, good schools and one of the area's most diverse populations. As it has since the beginning, Union City continues to offer businesses an unequalled location for transportation options, including the Bay Area's most significant acreage adjacent to BART and rail lines.

Today Union City looks to an equally bright future, as our diversified economy, central location and multitude of transportation options continue to make it an attractive home for individuals and business.

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