San Francisco Remains a Safe Haven for the Childless and Child

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/16/san-francisco-remains-a-safe-haven-for-the-childless-and-child-averse/San Francisco is holding onto its title as the country's most childless major city, and in fact the numbers haven't budged in a decade. Every couple of years the national media seizes on the story, with each update from the Census Bureau, of the American cities that have the fewest families with children under 18, and San Francisco has been coming out on top for over two decades now. And, the percentage of children in SF's population, while holding fairly steady for the last ten years, actually came down a couple points from the early to mid-aughts, when it hovered around 15%, and 1990, when it was around 16%. The latest number is 13.4%, the same share