Palo Alto, California
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Palo Alto is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, a U.S. state in Santa Clara County. It is part of the Silicon Valley and home to Stanford University and several successful computer industries. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,598. Palo Alto is home to the headquarters of Hewlett-Packard.
Palo Alto's sister city in Sweden is Linköping.
A good description of high-tech life in Palo Alto around 1995 is found in the novel by Douglas Coupland, Microserfs. One visible trend at the time was people moving to live in San Francisco, but driving down Route 280 to work in the valley.
The median income for a household in the city is $90,377, and the median income for a family is $117,574. Males have a median income of $91,051 versus $60,202 for females. The per capita income for the city is $56,257. 4.8% of the population and 3.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.0% are under the age of 18 and 5.0% are 65 or older.
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