These Are The 10 Whitest Cities In California For 2018

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:

1. Loomis
2. Indian Wells (Photos)
3. San Anselmo (Photos)
4. Paradise (Photos)
5. Pismo Beach (Photos)
6. Fairfax (Photos)
7. Woodside (Photos)
8. Sausalito (Photos)
9. Rancho Mirage
10. Mill Valley (Photos)

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

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%

2. Indian Wells

Population: 5,194
Percent White: 88.8%

3. San Anselmo

Population: 12,623
Percent White: 87.4%

4. Paradise

Population: 26,396
Percent White: 87.1%

5. Pismo Beach

Population: 7,984
Percent White: 86.5%

6. Fairfax

Population: 7,598
Percent White: 86.5%

7. Woodside

Population: 5,496
Percent White: 86.4%

8. Sausalito

Population: 7,115
Percent White: 85.5%

9. Rancho Mirage

Population: 17,876
Percent White: 84.9%

10. Mill Valley

Population: 14,318
Percent White: 84.5%

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

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