- Though some people are leaving California, San Diego and California continue to attract more affluent and highly educated people from across the nation and internationally, creating a mega-market for the housing.
- 60% of adults moving to California have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
- The unemployment rate in California among those with college degrees is 2.9%, with San Diego County total unemployment below 7%.
- San Diego County has gained 50,000 new jobs since January 2021.
- In 2020, more than 50% of the nation’s venture capital went to California.
- In 2020, almost half million Californians filed for new business licenses (a 22% increase).
- California leads the nation in business starts.
- UCSD generates the second largest number of annual STEM degrees in the U.S.
- UCSD had 118,000 applications for enrollment in 2021 (most in the U.S.) and SDSU was 10th.
- Through April 2021, more than 3,350 new homes, condominiums, and apartments broke ground in San Diego County.
- In this coming year, there will be almost a dozen new master-planned communities opening for sale, most of them in North San Diego County, and most with homes in the $500,000-$1,000,000 range.