City Demographics
- Population: just over 120,000
- Median age: 33.4
- Median household income: $103,727
- Employment Rate: 54%
Source: 2024 American Community Survey
UC Berkeley
The #1 public research university in the US (according to U.S. News & World Report, Times Higher Education, the Wall Street Journal, and Forbes, the institution educates 45,000+ students annually and produces the greatest number of venture-backed startups worldwide, according to Pitchbook.
With 200 graduate programs across 15 schools and colleges, the campus has spawned 63 Nobel Prize winners, 41 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” recipients, 28 recipients of the National Medal of Science and has more recipients of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships and the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships than any other public or private institution nationwide.
In recent years, the campus has doubled down on training changemakers and commercializing research, with nearly 100 innovation & entrepreneurship programs. It produces the greatest number of venture-backed startups worldwide, according to Pitchbook.
Berkeley Lab
With more than 3,800 employees, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists and engineers produce numerous startups, patents, records of invention, and R&D100 Awards. Berkeley Lab scientists bring in millions of dollars of federal, state, and corporate funding every year and have made countless impactful scientific discoveries.
