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.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.60% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

In El Sobrante, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.56 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.

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 education level of El Sobrante citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 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.