These Are The 10 Whitest Cities In California For 2018

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You’re at your local Whole Foods shopping for kale chips and asparagus water, trying to work out if you’ll have time to stop at the Pottery Barn before you head to your yoga class taught by a girl named Sage. It hits you: you’re leading the whitest life imaginable.

But does that mean the city you live in is one of the whitest places in California?

Don’t worry, we’ve figured it out for you. Using actual census data combined with our favorite white people stereotypes (as confirmed by the internet), we can determine which cities are the whitest of the white in Golden State.

After analyzing cities with populations greater than 5,000, we came up with this list as the whitest cities in California for 2018:

If you’re wondering, Mendota is the least white city of all those we measured.

Read on below to see where your hometown ranked and why. Or check out the whitest states in America and the most diverse states in America.

How we determined the whitest places in California for 2018

In order to rank the whitest places in California, we had to determine what measurable criteria defines whiteness.

Obviously we had to count how many white people living there, but being one of the whitest cities in California means much more than just having a high percentage of folks who are of the Caucasian persuasion.

These are cities jam-packed with all the stuff white folks love, based on everyone’s favorite stereotypes. After breaking it down, we came up with following criteria to run on 428 cities:

Percentage of population that’s white
Whole Foods per capita
Farmers markets per capita
Vegan restaurants per capita
Pottery Barns per capita
Yoga studios per capita

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Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a city’s border, as well as within a short driving distance.

All of these results are listed in a per capita basis, meaning number of stores per person in a state. Additionally, we limited the analysis to non-CDPs that have over 5,000 people.

We ranked each place with scores from 1 to 428 in each category, where 1 was the whitest.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each place to create a whiteness index.

And finally, we crowned the city with the highest whiteness index the ‘Whitest City In California.’ We’re lookin’ at you, Loomis.

Read on below to learn more about what it’s like to live in whitebread central. Or skip to the end to see the list of all the places in the state from whitest to most diverse in California.

1. Loomis

Population: 6,690
Percent White: 90.1%
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Loomis is an incorporated town in Placer County, California, United States. It is part of the Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,733 as estimated by the US Census in 2015.

2. Indian Wells

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Population: 5,194
Percent White: 88.8%
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Indian Wells is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley. Incorporated in 1967, it lies in between Palm Desert and the resort town of La Quinta. As of the 2013 census, the city population was 5,165.

3. San Anselmo

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Population: 12,623
Percent White: 87.4%
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San Anselmo is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States. San Anselmo is located 1.5 miles west of San Rafael, at an elevation of 46 feet. It is located about 20 miles north of San Francisco. Neighboring towns include San Rafael to the east, Fairfax to the west, and Ross to the south. Mount Tamalpais dominates the view to the south. The population was 12,336 at the 2010 census.

4. Paradise

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Population: 26,396
Percent White: 87.1%
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Paradise is an incorporated town in Butte County, California. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley.

5. Pismo Beach

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Population: 7,984
Percent White: 86.5%
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Pismo Beach is a city in San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast area of California, United States. The estimated population was 7,931 in 2014, up from 7,655 in the 2010 census. It is part of the Five Cities Area, a cluster of cities in that area of San Luis Obispo County. The ‘5 Cities’ is actually only 3 cities; Grover Beach, Pismo Beach, and Arroyo Grande. Oceano is a Community Service District and Shell Beach is part of Pismo Beach. Pismo Beach’s motto is ‘Clam Capital of the World’.

6. Fairfax

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Population: 7,598
Percent White: 86.5%
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Fairfax is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States. Fairfax is located 3.25 miles west-northwest of San Rafael, at an elevation of 115 feet. The population is 7,441 at the 2010 census. Fairfax is the only town in America that holds a Green Party majority in the town council.

7. Woodside

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Population: 5,496
Percent White: 86.4%
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8. Sausalito

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Population: 7,115
Percent White: 85.5%
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Sausalito is a city in Marin County, California. Located 8 miles south-southeast of San Rafael, at an elevation of 13 feet, and is located 7km north of San Francisco.

9. Rancho Mirage

Population: 17,876
Percent White: 84.9%
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Rancho Mirage is a resort city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 17,218 at the 2010 census, up from 13,249 at the 2000 census, but the seasonal population can exceed 20,000. Located between Cathedral City and Palm Desert, it is one of the nine cities of the Coachella Valley. Rancho Mirage was incorporated in 1973 from a merger of Mirage Cove with five unincorporated areas known as the ‘Cove communities’, and had 3,000 permanent residents at the time. Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States, died at his home in the city in 2006, and Jane Wyman died one year later at her home in the same city.

10. Mill Valley

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Population: 14,318
Percent White: 84.5%
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Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 miles north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. The population was 13,903 at the 2010 census.

There You Have It – The Whitest of The White Bread In California

Measuring both the locations with the highest percentage of white people, as well as the number of stereo-typically white venues, this list provides accurate information on the whitest places in California.

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Detailed List Of The Whitest Cities In California for 2018

Rank	City	Population
1
Loomis	6,690	90.1%
2
Indian Wells	5,194	88.8%
3
San Anselmo	12,623	87.4%
4
Paradise	26,396	87.1%
5
Pismo Beach	7,984	86.5%
6
Fairfax	7,598	86.5%
7
Woodside	5,496	86.4%
8
Sausalito	7,115	85.5%
9
Rancho Mirage	17,876	84.9%
10
Mill Valley	14,318	84.5%
11
Laguna Beach	23,204	84.2%
12
Tiburon	9,170	84.1%
13
Auburn	13,858	84.1%
14
Malibu	12,853	83.9%
15
Grass Valley	12,861	83.5%
16
Hermosa Beach	19,726	81.8%
17
Sebastopol	7,630	81.7%
18
Sonoma	10,952	81.0%
19
Canyon Lake	10,985	80.8%
20
Larkspur	12,268	80.5%
21
Placerville	10,540	80.3%
22
Newport Beach	86,813	80.2%
23
Morro Bay	10,519	79.9%
24
Corte Madera	9,694	79.8%
25
Solana Beach	13,312	79.7%
26
Yreka	7,598	79.6%
27
Westlake Village	8,443	79.6%
28
Ojai	7,581	79.1%
29
Beverly Hills	34,627	79.1%
30
Encinitas	62,160	78.9%
31
Redding	91,320	78.7%
32
Truckee	16,231	78.1%
33
Pacific Grove	15,546	77.9%
34
Clayton	11,655	77.8%
35
Laguna Woods	16,347	77.7%
36
Atascadero	29,516	77.4%
37
Scotts Valley	11,824	77.3%
38
Shasta Lake	10,151	77.0%
39
Anderson	10,156	76.9%
40
Lafayette	25,381	76.9%
41
Agoura Hills	20,689	76.8%
42
Danville	43,758	76.8%
43
Dana Point	34,009	76.1%
44
Red Bluff	14,065	75.9%
45
Calabasas	24,091	75.4%
46
Manhattan Beach	35,573	75.4%
47
Coronado	24,852	75.1%
48
Orinda	18,936	75.0%
49
Atherton	7,127	74.9%
50
Rio Vista	8,055	74.7%
51
West Hollywood	35,661	74.2%
52
Seal Beach	24,510	74.1%
53
Los Gatos	30,491	74.1%
54
Arroyo Grande	17,842	74.0%
55
Carlsbad	112,008	73.8%
56
Fortuna	11,917	73.7%
57
Eureka	27,002	73.5%
58
Chico	89,377	73.1%
59
San Luis Obispo	46,716	72.9%
60
San Clemente	65,082	72.9%
61
Walnut Creek	67,568	72.8%
62
Big Bear Lake	5,149	72.7%
63
Arcata	17,775	71.6%
64
Rocklin	60,509	71.0%
65
San Carlos	29,596	71.0%
66
Santee	56,839	70.1%
67
Cotati	7,415	69.9%
68
Calimesa	8,379	69.8%
69
Roseville	128,276	69.6%
70
Ripon	14,971	69.5%
71
Sierra Madre	11,067	69.5%
72
Citrus Heights	85,954	69.4%
73
Yucca Valley	21,362	69.3%
74
Petaluma	59,757	69.3%
75
Martinez	37,544	69.2%
76
Lincoln	45,675	69.1%
77
Piedmont	11,201	69.0%
78
Solvang	5,552	68.9%
79
Villa Park	5,922	68.8%
80
Thousand Oaks	128,623	68.3%
81
Escalon	7,382	68.2%
82
Laguna Niguel	64,984	67.7%
83
Mission Viejo	96,178	67.4%
84
St. Helena	5,995	67.2%
85
Novato	54,790	67.0%
86
El Segundo	16,901	66.7%
87
Palos Verdes Estates	13,582	66.5%
88
Moraga	16,977	66.4%
89
Pleasant Hill	34,395	66.3%
90
Monterey	28,472	65.9%
91
Santa Monica	92,247	65.4%
92
Palm Desert	51,045	65.2%
93
Ridgecrest	28,604	65.1%
94
Oakdale	21,796	65.0%
95
Rancho Santa Margarita	49,038	64.8%
96
Santa Cruz	63,310	64.8%
97
Capitola	10,109	64.7%
98
Poway	49,675	64.4%
99
Rohnert Park	41,928	64.1%
100
Folsom	74,960	64.0%