San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s population hit hard during pandemic, Census data shows
San Francisco’s metropolis and county inhabitants shrank simply over 7% from July 2020 to July 2022, in accordance with new U.S. Census Bureau knowledge.
Why it issues: The previous few years have been particularly turbulent for inhabitants tendencies, with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting beginning and loss of life charges, interstate and worldwide migration, and extra.
- In the meantime, San Francisco’s economic system has struggled to get well from the monetary impacts of the pandemic.
By the numbers: San Francisco County, which includes solely the town of San Francisco, had a inhabitants of 808,437 in July 2022, down from 870,393 in July 2020.
- San Francisco had the steepest inhabitants decline amongst Bay Space counties, adopted by San Mateo County with a 4.4% inhabitants loss from 2020 to 2022.
- Statewide, California’s inhabitants declined 1.2% from July 2020 to July 2022, to simply over 39 million.
Of word: San Francisco’s inhabitants decline slowed from July 2021 to July 2022, in contrast with 2020 by 2021.
- The town’s inhabitants dropped 6.8% from 2020 to 2021, however simply 0.3% from 2021 to 2022.
Between the strains: In San Francisco, the inhabitants decline was seemingly at the least partially fueled by tech staff newly unshackled from their places of work within the distant work period, mixed with excessive housing prices within the space.
- Manhattan, nonetheless, grew a bit, as Axios’ Emily Peck stories, complicating the sweeping “huge cities are dying” narrative of the late pandemic period.
Zoom out: Idaho, Montana and Florida had the very best inhabitants progress of U.S. states from 2020 to 2022, whereas New York, Illinois and Louisiana sustained essentially the most shrinkage.
- Idaho’s inhabitants grew almost 4.9%, whereas that of Montana and Florida grew 3.3% and three%, respectively.
- New York, in the meantime, shrank about 2%, whereas Illinois and Louisiana misplaced 1.6% and 1.3% of their populations, respectively.
The intrigue: A number of the fastest-growing areas — Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico — are additionally a number of the most weak to the continuing results of local weather change, like drought and a dwindling water provide.
What to look at: whether or not the town implements a plan to construct 82,000 housing models over the subsequent eight years, greater than half of which should be thought of reasonably priced. And if San Francisco does succeed, whether or not inhabitants ranges can be affected.
- Plus, whether or not the exodus will proceed to gradual and whether or not the rebound in immigration sustains within the Bay Space.
As pickleball popularity grows, so does the demand for courts – and the debate over the sport’s noise factor.
NBC Bay Area’s Sergio Quintana shows us how San Francisco is trying to meet the demand without upsetting residents in the video report above.
A growing group of skaters is pushing to preserve the Vaillancourt Fountain after the City of San Francisco announced a multimillion-dollar renovation plan that would remove the structure made of concrete square pipes.
Zeke McGuire started skating at the age of 10, and he grew up skating at the plaza and near the fountain.
“To see it go would be devastating,” McGuire stated. “I’ve been coming here my whole life. I’ve skated those stairs. I’ve been injured on those stairs.”
He’s skated on every inch of the Plaza, including the ledges of the Vaillancourt Fountain, which was completed in 1971. It’s impossible to miss, with its boxy concrete tubes that stand about 40 feet high.
It’s been the backdrop of more skateboard videos than anyone could count.
“It’s extremely awesome,” McGuire said. “There’s people all across the world that come to San Francisco to skate here specifically. So for it to be gone, people would come here to visit and it wouldn’t be here anymore, so I would say get it in before it’s gone.”
San Francisco Recreation and Parks announced the Embarcadero Plaza Renovation Project last year. It is a plan to construct a new waterfront park, which would tear down the structure.
Tamara Barak Aparton with Rec and Parks says that after years of deterioration, the fountain is unsafe.
“The structure is unstable,” Barak Aparton stated. “Hazardous materials are present, and we can’t allow the public access to a space that poses safety risks.”
Historical preservationists, landscape architects, and skate enthusiasts, like Bay Area professional skateboarder Karl Watson, are now pushing back and saying it’s a part of that sport’s history in San Francisco.
“A beautiful monstrosity that needs to stay,” said Watson, describing the fountain.
He says except for a few exceptions, people didn’t skate into the fountain, just around it.
“The fountain was integral for when we were tired after skating, we needed a place to relax and just enjoy the water flowing and the fountain definitely did that for us,” Watson said.
Now, the fountain is stagnant. The water stopped flowing years ago. In June 2025, it was fenced off.
Feldman was disappointed to see it like this.
“I came down here last week just to see the fencing and I was like ‘oh, they really don’t want us skating here anymore’,” Feldman explained.
In August, the Recreation and Parks department formally requested permission to remove the fountain from the city’s Civic Art Collection.
But McGuire is hoping people like Watson, and the artist keep fighting. Armand Vaillancourt’s lawyer recently sent a letter to multiple city departments demanding the city cease and desist all efforts to remove his work.
No final decision has been made yet, but if it does go, McGuire hopes they’ll leave something.
“Even if it was to be fully demolished, I think it would be really nice if they kept a little bit of something,” McGuire said. “Or maybe make a part for people to skate.”
San Francisco is set to host the 2025 Laver Cup at Chase Center from September 19 to 21, marking the first-ever tennis tournament held at the arena and the return of major men’s pro tennis to the city in over a decade. Steve Zacks, CEO of the Laver Cup, says this event showcases tennis like fans have never seen before, featuring a unique team format created by Roger Federer.
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