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Hayward, CA
Population: 141,248
Compare Hayward to Top 10 Best Places
Financial
  City stats Best places average
Median family income
(per year)
$63,212 $76,893
Family purchasing power
(annual, cost-of-living adjusted)
$36,794 $68,109
Sales tax 8.75% 6.55%
State income tax rate
(highest bracket)
9.30%* 6.46%
State income tax rate
(lowest bracket)
1.00%* 2.74%
Auto insurance premiums
(Average for the state)
$2,186 $2,207
Job growth %
(2000-2005)
1.04% 10.97%
Housing
  City stats Best places average
Median home price $520,000 $259,566
Home price gain
(2004-2005)
19.70% 9.26%
Education
  City stats Best places average
Colleges, universities and
professional schools
12 8
Junior colleges and
technical institutes
3 0
Test scores reading
(% +/- state average)
-23.9% 13.3%
Test scores math
(% +/- state average)
-13.5% 16.9%
% students attending
public/private schools
91.1/8.90 88.4/11.59
Quality of life
  City stats Best places average
Air quality index
(% of days AQI ranked as good)
91.8% 71.9%
Personal crime risk
(100 is nat'l average; lower is better)
105 45
Property crime risk
(100 is nat'l average; lower is better)
108 74
Personal crime incidents
(per 100,000)
411 228
Property crime incidents
(per 100,000)
3,527 3,105
Median commute time
(in minutes)
28.7 20.8
% population with commute
45 mins. or longer
24.9% 13.4%
Leisure and culture
  City stats Best places average
Movie theaters
(within 15 miles)
23 22
Restaurants
(within 15 miles)
3,546 2,268
Bars
(within 15 miles)
166 127
Public golf courses
(within 30 miles)
89 74
Libraries
(within 15 miles)
62 43
Museums (accredited by AAM
within 30 miles)
16 7
Ski resorts (within 100 miles) 0 10
Weather
  City stats Best places average
Annual precipitation
(inches)
14.85 36.00
Clear days 160 107
High temp in July ° F 78.3° 87.7°
Low temp in Jan ° F 42.0° 23.5°
Health*
  City stats Best places average
Has health plan
(% of residents)
89.2% 88.2%
Body mass index
(avg. for residents)
26 27
Cancer mortality
(per 100,000, age-adjusted)
167.5 191.3
Cardiac mortality
(per 100,000)
199.3 202.0
Meet the neighbors
  City stats Best places average
Median age 33.0 34.5
Completed at least some college
(% of residents)
44.7% 63.9%
Married 44.9% 54.3%
Divorced 9.9% 9.3%
Amount spent on vacations
(domestic and foreign, household avg. per year)
$7,000 $7,549
*County data
Income tax notes:
15 states have statutory provision for automatic adjustment of tax brackets, personal exemption or standard deductions to the rate of inflation. Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio indexes the personal exemption amounts only.
For joint returns, the taxes are twice the tax imposed on half the income.
tax credits.
An additional 1% tax is imposed on taxable income over $1 million.
Data: OnBoard, FORTUNE. Details
California companies
FORTUNE: Best to work for
Company Best Companies
2006 Rank
Genentech 1
Vision Service Plan 7
Qualcomm 23
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FORTUNE 500
Company F500 rank
Chevron Corporation 4
Hewlett-Packard 11
McKesson 16
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Biggest employers
Company Employees
Wells Fargo & Company Inc 33,100
The University Of Southern California 17,112
Macy's California, Inc 15,620
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