Hispanic and Latino Americans in San Francisco

Ranchos owned by Spanish-Mexican families such as the Valenciano, Guerrero, Dolores, Bernal, Noé and De Haro continued in the area, separated from the town of Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco (centered around Portsmouth Square) by a two-mile wooden plank road (later paved and renamed Mission Street).

The lands around the nearly abandoned mission church became a focal point of raffish attractions[1] including bull and bear fighting, horse racing, baseball and dueling.

[3] In the decades after the Gold Rush, the town of San Francisco quickly expanded, and the Mission lands were developed and subdivided into housing plots for working-class immigrants, largely German, Irish, and Italian,[1] and also for industrial uses.

To a lesser extent, there are some South American residents in San Francisco, with a higher proportion of them living in the Mission District and Downtown areas.

San Francisco Bay Area in general has a large Hispanic population at around 30%, represented at least 20% in every county, with Marin being the least in proportion.

The Hispanic population has been in the Bay Area since the mid-1900s, which much of the immigration due to farmers working in the Wine County and agriculture of the San Jose's valleys.