Daly City, California population is 101,261 as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimate), ranking #337 nationally and #76 in California. Cost of living runs 16% above the U.S. average (BEA RPP 2024); a family of four needs roughly $195,843/yr to break even (2025 modeled). This profile draws on 13 federal datasets covering population, housing, income, employment, climate, and risk.
At a glance.
2025 population
101,261
+168 in the last year
Top 2% of 19,483 U.S. cities
Census Vintage 2025
Cost of living
RPP 115.6
+16% vs US
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro · BEA 2024
Family-of-4 budget
$195,843/yr
+144% vs US
Modeled 2025 · federal sources
Median HH income
$123,547
+59% vs US
ACS 2020–2024 5-yr
Median home value
$1,115,000
+268% vs US
ACS 2020–2024 5-yr
2-BR fair-market rent
$3,604/mo
HUD FY2026 · 40th pct
Avg July high
67°F
NOAA 1991–2020
Gigabit broadband
90%
ISP-reported, FCC BDC
Explore Daly City, CA demographics, including age, race and ethnicity, households, origins, language, and education.
How many people live in Daly City?
101,261 people live in Daly City as of July 1, 2025 (U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025), the #337 largest U.S. city.
How big is Daly City?
Daly City covers 7.7 square miles of land and 0.0 square miles of water. Its population density is about 13,237 residents per square mile of land. Compare U.S. cities by land area →
Source detail: 2025 population
2025 population
Source agency
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
Dataset
Census PEP
Vintage / period
Vintage 2025 (Jul 1, 2025)
Native geography
Census PEP subcounty place records for the included city universe.
Transformation
Copied from POPESTIMATE2025, joined by Census GEOID, and used for ranks, filters, and city pages.
Known limit: Annual estimate, not a decennial count; each new PEP vintage can revise the prior series.
Population shrank 3.5% from the April 2020 base to mid-2025.
Vintage 2025 · annual estimates
Recent history (V2025 series, 2020 base → 2025).
2020 base: 104,905 → 2025: 101,261 (-3.5%)
Year
Population
Reference date
2020 base
104,905
April 1, 2020
2020
104,806
July 1, 2020
2021
101,790
July 1, 2021
2022
100,638
July 1, 2022
2023
100,577
July 1, 2023
2024
101,093
July 1, 2024
2025
101,261
July 1, 2025
Earlier history (2010–2019, prior Census vintage)
These figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2019 release — a separate, earlier methodology. They’re shown here as historical context only; the 2010 and 2019 values aren’t directly comparable to the 2020–2025 series above.
Population grew 5.0% from the July 2010 estimate to 2019 (V2019 — see seam note below).
Daly City is the #337 largest of 19,483 U.S. cities and #76 in California.
▸Show the analyst detail (9 rows)
Measure
Value
Note
2020 base
104,905
April 1, 2020 census base
5-yr change
-3,644
2020 base → 2025; within V2025
5-yr change %
-3.5%
within V2025 only
1-yr change
+168
2024 → 2025 estimate
1-yr change %
+0.2%
within V2025 only
Density
13,237
people per sq mi, land only
Land area
7.7
sq mi (2025 Gazetteer)
U.S. rank by population
#337
of 19,483 cities
State rank by population
#76
of 483 in California
What is the median household income in Daly City?
Median household income is 59% above the U.S. median ($123,547 vs $77,719); 7.7% live in poverty — 4.8 points below the 12.5% U.S. rate.
Median household income$123,547
US
Daly City: $123,547 — 59% above the US median of $77,719.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS income data
Daly City
$123,547
United States
$77,719
Income and poverty estimates for Daly City from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year estimates (window 2020–2024). Every figure is shown with its 90% margin of error (MOE). Cells where the ± margin exceeds half the estimate are flagged "low precision." See methodology §12.
Measure
Estimate
± margin / note
Median household income
123,547+59.0% vs US
±5,280
Per capita income
50,863+17.5% vs US
±1,906
Population in poverty
7.7%
share of population for whom poverty status is determined
Median home value is 268% above the U.S. median ($1,115,000 vs $303,400); median rent is 89% above ($2,551 vs $1,348); price-to-income ratio is 9.0×, making it 2.3× as cost-burdened as the typical U.S. city (3.9×).
Median home value$1,115,000
US
Daly City: $1,115,000 — 268% above the US median of $303,400.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with ACS home-value data
HUD 2-BR fair-market rent$3,604/mo
US
Daly City: $3,604/mo — 235% above the US median of $1,077/mo.
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of cities with a HUD Fair Market Rent
Poverty (Census SAIPE 2024, model-based), unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024 annual averages), and remote-work share (ACS 2020–2024) for Daly City. Numbers are labeled at their native grain — place-grain when BLS publishes it, otherwise per-county. We do not compute population-weighted county averages. See methodology §13.
Measure
Value
Grain
Unemployment rate (annual avg)
3.6%
Daly City (BLS sub-state LAUS)
Civilian labor force
59,563
2024 annual avg
Worked from home
15.2%+8.8% vs US
share of workers 16+ commuting from home · U.S. median: 14% · ACS
County context — Daly City sits in San Mateo County:
County
Poverty rate
Median HH income
Unemployment
San Mateo County
7.2%
$158,569
3.6%
Top industries by private employment — NAICS supersectors rolled up from Daly City's linked county in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW, 2024 annual averages). See methodology §11.
#
Industry (NAICS supersector)
Private employment
Avg weekly wage
#1
Professional and technical services (54)
71,055
$5,189 / wk
#2
Health care and social assistance (62)
47,203
$1,782 / wk
#3
Information (51)
43,524
$12,867 / wk
#4
Accommodation and food services (72)
36,653
$846 / wk
#5
Retail trade (44-45)
29,358
$1,096 / wk
What workers earn in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro — top occupations by employment plus six curated benchmarks (registered nurse, software developer, elementary teacher, general manager, retail salesperson, truck driver). Wages are metro-area medians from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). See methodology §25.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides is the largest tracked occupation in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro (119,120 jobs, median $35,950/yr).
▸Show all 12 occupations
Occupation
Employment
Median annual
Median hourly
Home Health and Personal Care Aides
119,120
$35,950
$17.28
Fast Food and Counter Workers
49,970
$43,870
$21.09
Cashiers
38,250
$41,270
$19.84
Office Clerks, General
37,590
$52,000
$25.00
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
30,710
$48,400
$23.27
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
29,980
$96,960
$46.61
Software Developers · benchmark
69,030
$186,640
$89.73
General and Operations Managers · benchmark
43,520
$149,990
$72.11
Registered Nurses · benchmark
41,750
$186,610
$89.71
Retail Salespersons · benchmark
39,460
$43,850
$21.08
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education · benchmark
17,860
$101,860
—
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers · benchmark
All items run 15.6% above the U.S. average (RPP 115.6); rents run 94.7% above (RPP 194.7) — the metro's housing premium is the main driver.
Cost of living (RPP, all items)RPP 115.6
US
Daly City's cost of living runs 15.6% above the U.S. average (RPP 115.6 vs 100).
Scale: 10th–90th percentile of metro/non-metro areas with a BEA price parity
BEA Regional Price Parity (all items)
RPP 115.6
+15.6% vs U.S. average · BEA 2024 · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro
HUD Fair Market Rent, 2-BR
$3,604/mo
FY2026 · San Francisco, CA HUD Metro FMR Area
State income tax (top marginal rate)
12.30%
9 brackets · TY2025
Family-of-four monthly budget total
$16,320/mo
3BR rent + food + childcare + taxes + transport · federal sources
Single-adult monthly budget total
$6,862/mo
1BR rent + food + taxes + transport · federal sources
Local income tax
—
not applicable in California · no modeled local income tax
Household budget figures are arithmetic floors using current federal sources at the grains documented in methodology. Not a recommended salary, not a poverty threshold, not a composite score.
49.7% foreign-born (U.S. median 14%); Tagalog (incl. Filipino) is the most-spoken language at home other than English (20.1% of residents 5+).
A quick read on Daly City's residents — nativity and languages spoken at home shown above, from the ACS 5-Year 2020–2024. The full demographic breakdown (age, race and ethnicity, household types, and educational attainment, each with its margin of error) lives on the demographics page.
These are K-12 public school districts. Higher education (colleges and universities) is not represented in this dataset.
Public school districts serving Daly City, from the NCES EDGE Geographic Relationship Files (GRF25, 2024–25 school year boundaries). The join is many-to-many — large cities often span multiple districts, and one district often serves multiple cities. Sorted primary district first. See methodology §12 for the consolidated-city fallback and Milford CT special case.
Source: NCES EDGE GRF25 · school year 2024–25 · methodology →
What is the climate like in Daly City?
Hottest month: September (70°F avg high). Coldest: January (45°F avg low). Annual precipitation: 25.4 in.
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) for Daly City from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. See methodology §15 for the gridded vs. station source path.
Average monthly highs & lows · 30-year normal (NOAA 1991–2020). Every number on this chart is an average.
bar = avg daily high → avg daily lowprecip in inches below each barprecip in millimeters below each bar
Composite risk score: 99.2/100 — Relatively High nationally; top hazard: Earthquake (99.7).
Natural-hazard exposure for Daly City from the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index (FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0). NRI is an expected-annual-loss composite calibrated on 1996–2019 historical losses, published at the U.S. county grain. See methodology §17.
County
NRI composite
Rating
Top hazards
San Mateo County
99.2
Relatively High
Earthquake 99.7 Relatively High · Landslide 99.7 Relatively High · Riverine Flooding 98.4 Relatively High
Source: FEMA National Risk Index · FEMA NRI December 2025 v1.20.0 · methodology →
How fast is home internet in Daly City?
15 non-satellite ISPs serve the area; 90% of locations have gigabit-capable service per ISP filings.
Fixed broadband availability for Daly City from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Data Collection (BDC), as of June 30, 2025. Every speed and provider count below is an ISP-reported advertised maximum — not measured throughput. Actual delivered speeds typically run 60–80% of advertised. See methodology §16.
Measure
Value
Note
Providers serving this city
15 + satellite
distinct ISPs, excluding satellite-only
Fiber providers
10
offer fiber-to-the-premises somewhere in the BDC
Units with ≥100/20 Mbps fixed
100.0%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Locations with ≥100 Mbps upload
89.7%
derived: max(fiber ≥100/20, gigabit). Fiber is symmetric; gigabit is ≥100 up by definition
Units with ≥1 Gbps fixed
89.7%
share of broadband-serviceable units, ISP-reported max
Total broadband-serviceable units
35,869
residential locations in the FCC Fabric (not households)
Source: FCC BDC · as of June 30, 2025 · methodology →
In-state context.
Daly City sits at state rank #76 among 483 cities in California. Nearby in the state ranking:
Just above in the profiled set: Fort Myers, FL · #336 · 101,581 residents.
Just below in the profiled set: Avondale, AZ · #338 · 100,983 residents.
Quick travel facts for Daly City
Quick travel facts.
Nearest commercial airport
San Francisco International Airport(SFO) · 8 mi 12 km from city centroid
Best months to visit
Aug, Sep, Oct · months when the avg high sits in 65–80°F and precipitation is at or below the city's median monthly precip
Sources: elevation from USGS Elevation Point Query Service (3DEP) · nearest airport from OurAirports CSV (FAA-aligned, type=large/medium, scheduled_service=yes) · best months derived from NOAA 1991-2020 normals · methodology →
Frequently asked questions about Daly City.
How many people live in Daly City, CA?
Daly City has 101,261 residents as of July 1, 2025, making it the #337 largest city in the United States and #76 in California. Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025.
Is Daly City growing or shrinking?
Daly City has shrunk 3.5% since the April 2020 census baseline, losing 3,644 residents. The most recent year ticked up slightly (+168 residents, +0.2% from 2024 to 2025). Source: Census PEP Vintage 2025.
What was Daly City's population in the 2020 census?
Daly City covers 7.7 square miles of land, with a population density of about 13,237 residents per square mile. Source: Census Gazetteer 2025.
What is the median household income in Daly City?
$123,547, about 59% above the U.S. median. Source: ACS 5-year estimates, 2020–2024.
SourceU.S. Census · PEP
VintageV2025
Reference2025-07-01
Place typeIncorporated place
GEOID0617918
Last build2026-08-27
Sources · provenance
Every listed dataset is used on this page.
The GEOID for Daly City is 0617918. These are the official datasets used by this profile's main data modules; click "methodology" for inclusion rules and the V2019 ↔ V2025 seam, or "source" for the raw publisher page. The headline population value above includes a source-detail disclosure with publisher, dataset, vintage, native geography, transformation, and caveat.
