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30 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />3.3 POPULATION <br />The California Department of Finance placed the population of San Leandro at 88,441 <br />residents in 2015. The city’s population has increased by 11 percent since 2000. This <br />is a slightly faster rate than Alameda County as a whole, which grew by 9 percent <br />during the same period. <br />Most of San Leandro’s growth during the last 15 years has been the result of <br />increasing household size rather than new construction. The average number of <br />persons in a San Leandro household was 2.57 in 2000 and 2.85 in 2015. This <br />continues a trend underway since 1990, when average household size was just 2.33. <br />During the 2010-2015 period alone, San Leandro added just 120 households while its <br />population increased by 3,500 people. <br />San Leandro has become much more ethnically diverse over the past two decades. <br />The percentage of Non-Hispanic White residents in the city declined from 79 percent <br />of the city’s population in 1980 to 27 percent in 2010. Based on the 2014 American <br />Community Survey, San Leandro’s population is 32 percent Asian, 28 percent <br />Hispanic, 24 percent Non-Hispanic White, 11 percent African American, and 5 percent <br />other races or multi-racial. Approximately 24 percent of the city’s residents are <br />multi-lingual and 26 percent primarily speak another language at home. <br />69