El Sobrante is a medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 15,524 people and three associated neighborhoods, El Sobrante is the 353rd largest community in California.

Housing costs in El Sobrante are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Of important note, El Sobrante is also a town of artists. El Sobrante has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape El Sobrante’s character.

Also of interest is that El Sobrante has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.60% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

One downside of living in El Sobrante is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In El Sobrante, the average commute to work is 34.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

Even though El Sobrante is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.

The citizens of El Sobrante are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.88% of adults in El Sobrante have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in El Sobrante in 2022 was $45,303, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $181,212 for a family of four. However, El Sobrante contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

El Sobrante is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call El Sobrante home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of El Sobrante residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. El Sobrante also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.77% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in El Sobrante include English, German, Irish, European, and Italian.

In addition, El Sobrante has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (27.82%).

The most common language spoken in El Sobrante is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.