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25,280
58%
$108,294
64.2%
America/Los_Angeles
94530
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El Cerrito, CA - History
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Welcome to the El Cerrito Home page. The El Cerrito Home page provides as much information as possible on El Cerrito. Knowing El Cerrito’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within El Cerrito’s Home page, you will also find El Cerrito’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
El Cerrito has a population of 25280. 47.2% of El Cerrito’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.8 are female. 54.6% of El Cerrito is married and 57.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $857,706, and the average rent is $2,031. Household median income in El Cerrito is $108,294, and the individual median income is $53,483. El Cerrito’s Ethnic is the following: White(51.6%), Asian(28.9%), Hispanic(11.6%), Multiple(10.4%), Black(5%), Other(2.7%), Native(0.7%), Pacific(0.6%).
El Cerrito was founded by refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. They settled in what was then Don Víctor Castro's Rancho San Pablo, and adjacent to the ranch owned by the family of Luís María Peralta, the Rancho San Antonio. A post office opened at the settlement in 1909 and the refugee camp became known as Rust, after Wilhelm F.
Rust, its first postmaster. The village's residents did not care for the name and changed it to El Cerrito (meaning "little hill" or "knoll") in 1916, in reference to the many individual hills in the village. A year later, El Cerrito was incorporated as a village with 1,500 residents.El Cerrito was incorporated in August 1917.
The communities of Stege Junction, Rust, Schmidtville, and Schindler, were all included in the new city. The 1920 census shows that the Schmidtville community had many Italian immigrants. A post office operated at Schmidtville from 1900 to 1901.
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