A PORTRAIT OF CALIFORNIA 2014–2015 | SAN DIEGO METRO AREA CLOSE-UP

A P O R TR A I T OF CA L IFOR N I A 2 0 1 4 – 2 0 1 5

SAN DIEGO

METRO AREA CLOSE-UP San Jose (7.08) San Francisco (6.72)

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks (5.62)

San Diego (5.59)

Sacramento (5.47) Los Angeles (5.44)

Riverside– San Bernardino (4.59) Stockton (4.34)

5.59 HD INDEX

81.7

LIFE EXPECTANCY (years)

5.17

EDUCATION INDEX

$31,684 MEDIAN EARNINGS

The San Diego metropolitan area ranks fourth among the ten most populous metro areas in California in terms of well-being and access to opportunity, as measured by the American Human Development Index. Its human development (HD) Index score of 5.59 out of a possible 10 is right on track with California’s well-being score of 5.39. The San Diego metro area, with a population of 3.1 million, comprises only San Diego County, with its two principal cities of San Diego and Carlsbad. THIS CLOSE-UP IS A COMPANION TO A PORTRAIT OF CALIFORNIA 2014–2015, AVAILABLE AT WWW.MEASUREOFAMERICA.ORG.

Fresno (3.96)

MEASUREO FAMERI C A of the Social Science Research Council

A PORTRAIT OF CALIFORNIA 2014–2015 | SAN DIEGO METRO AREA CLOSE-UP

San Diego Today HOW HAS SAN DIEGO FARED SINCE THE GREAT RECESSION? Like most metro areas across the nation, San Diego saw a decline in well-being and access to opportunity since the start of the Great Recession due mainly to plummeting earnings and a myriad of other economic hardships. Median earnings, or the wages and salaries of the typical worker, fell by almost $3,000 between the pre-Recession period of 2006–2008 to the post-Recession period of 2010–2012, contributing to a decline in human development. All but four of the state’s major metro areas saw a reversal of well-being gains during the Great Recession.

The American Human Development Index The American Human Development (HD) Index for California is a composite measure of well-being and access to opportunity made up of health, education, and earnings indicators. The Index is expressed on a scale from 0 to 10.

Human Developent before and after the Great Recession San Jose

+0.13

San Francisco

+0.10

Los Angeles

+0.08

Bakersfield

–0.01 A Long and Healthy Life is measured using life expectancy at birth, calculated using 2010–2012 mortality data from the California Department of Public Health and A population data from the Long and U.S.Healthy Census Bureau. Life

Access to Knowledge is measured with school enrollment for those ages 3 to 25, and educational degree attainment for those 25 and older, with 2010–2012 data from theAccess AmericantoCommunity Survey,Knowledge U.S. Census Bureau.

A Decent Standard of Living is measured using median earnings of all full- and part-time workers 16 years and older from the American Community U.S. A Survey, Decent Census Bureau, of 2010–2012. Standard Living

I N D I CATOR S

Life expectancy at birth

Educational degree attainment

School enrollment

Median earnings

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+ Health INDEX

Riverside– San Bernardino Sacramento

Fresno

San Diego Oxnard– Thousand Oaks

Stockton

CHANGE IN HD INDEX

+

Education INDEX

+0.05

Income INDEX

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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SAN DIEGO NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD The San Diego metro area is divided by the U.S. Census Bureau into twenty-two neighborhood clusters, each with a population between one hundred tho