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A-10 | City of Pleasanton Housing Needs Assessment <br />Figure A-5: Pleasanton’s Population by Race, 2000-2019 <br /> <br />Notes: <br />Data for 2019 represents 2015-2019 ACS estimates. <br />The Census Bureau defines Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity separate from racial categories. For the purposes of this graph, the “Hispanic <br />or Latinx” racial/ethnic group represents those who identify as having Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity and may also be members of any <br />racial group. All other racial categories on this graph represent those who identify with that racial category and do not identify with <br />Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity. <br />Source: ABAG 2021 Pre-certified Housing Needs Data (U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000, Table P004; U.S. <br />Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Data (2015-2019), Table B03002) <br />A.2.4 Employment <br />A city houses employed residents who either work in the community where they live, or who work <br />elsewhere in the region (i.e., export workers). Conversely, a city may have jobs that employ <br />residents from the same city, but more often employ workers commuting into the city (i.e., import <br />workers). Smaller cities typically will have more employed residents than jobs and export workers <br />to other cities, while larger cities tend to have a surplus of jobs and import workers to their city. <br />To some extent the regional transportation system is set up to accommodate this flow of workers <br />to the region’s core job centers. At the same time, as the housing affordability crisis has illustrated, <br />local imbalances may be severe, where local jobs and worker populations are out of sync at a <br />sub-regional scale. <br />One measure of this is the relationship between workers and jobs. A city with a surplus of <br />employed residents “exports” workers to other parts of the region, while a city with a surplus of <br />jobs must conversely “import” workers. Between 2002 and 2018, the number of jobs in Pleasanton <br />increased by 2.4 percent overall (see Figure A-6). However, this same period saw a steep decline <br />in total jobs during the Great Recession; since 2010 the number of jobs in Pleasanton has risen <br />back to (and now slightly exceeds) pre-Recession levels. <br />12%23%35% <br />78%61% <br />50% <br />8%10%9% <br />0% <br />10% <br />20% <br />30% <br />40% <br />50% <br />60% <br />70% <br />80% <br />90% <br />100% <br />2000 2010 2019Share of PopulationAmerican Indian or Alaska Native, Non-Hispanic Asian / API, Non-Hispanic <br />Black or African American, Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic <br />Other Race or Multiple Races, Non-Hispanic Hispanic or Latinx