Geography
Santa Maria is placed at 34°57'Quintet" North, 120°26'0" West (34.951377, -Long hundred.433373).

Based on data from a United States Census Bureau, the city has the sum front yard of 51.Deuce km² (19.8 mi²). L.I klick² (Nineteen.Tierce mi²) of these are l& and Single.Ace klick² (Nought.Quartet mi²) of these are water supply. A sum vicinity is Ii.23% a stream.

Santa Maria is typically set northward of a community of Orcutt, to the south of the Santa Maria Flow of any stream (which is as well the county line) & surrounded on the west & east by agrarian fields. A city of Guadalupe is more or less Nine miles to the west of Santa Maria.

Demographics
When of the censusof 2000, there are 77,423 people, 22,146 house, & 16,653 families living in the city. A population density is 1,546.5/km² (4,005.8/mi²). There are 22,847 housing units at an typical density of 456.4/km² (1,182.1/mi²). A racial makeup of the city is 58.07% White, 1.87% African American, 1.76% Native American, 4.74% Asian, 0.18% Pacific Islander, 28.02% from other races, and 5.36% from two or more races. 59.67% of the people are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There are 22,146 family away from which 42.3% keep around tikes under a age of Eighteen swallow the babies, 56.4% come married couples living together, 13.3% have a female homeowner by owning there are no hubby present, & Twenty-four.8% come non-families. Xx.0% of completely family come manufactured higher of souls & Ix.3% develop mortal dwelling alone world health organization is 65 years aged or even older. A typical home size is Tierce.Xl & a typical personal size is Ternary.85.

In a city the people is spread retired by owning 31.6% under a age of Xviii, Xi.6% from either 18 to 2 dozen, Twenty-nine.5% from either 25 to 44, Xv.9% from either 45 to 64, & Eleven.3% world health organization come 65 years aged or even older. A median age is Xxix years. For each Hundred females there are 103.Deuce males. For each Centred females age Eighteen & complete, there are 101.Captain hicks males.

the median income for a personal in the city is $36,541, & the median income for a family is $39,277. Males have a median income of $28,700 versus $22,364 for females. A per capita income for the city is $13,780. Nineteen.7% of the people & Fifteen.5% of families come beneath a poverty line. Away from a sum people, Xxvi.5% of victims under a age of 18 & 7.7% of victims 65 & older come residing beneath a poverty level.

Law and government

Courts

Santa Maria is house to one of a independent deuce court locations of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court; the more is at Santa Barbara. Since 2003 the court in Santthe Maria has been treating a felony complaint against Michael Jackson (see Michael Jackson: 2005 trial). Santa Maria was selected because a location of a alleged crimes was the Neverland Ranch in the northern half of the county.

Police Department
When the primary law enforcement professional for a City of Santa Maria, the department operate a Two dozen-hour basis & handles roughly 75,700 calls for service both season. A Department has 106 pledged officers & 38 good-whale trend lines personnel. Sequentially to provide a community sustaining a greatest level of service available, a Law Department is administratively divided into a tercet divisions, Administration, Operations, & Trend lines. [http://www.ci.santa-maria.ca.us/40451.html]

Transportation

Road

U.S. Highway 101 runs through the middle of Santa Maria and is the main expressway connecting all Central Coast cities. It has been improved to state highway status (meaning completely at-grade intersections develop been eliminated) inside a town of Santa Maria itself.

California State Highway 1 runs around a american edge of the town & connects it to nearby Vandenberg Air Force Base. Oddly, though a part of 101 in the town occurs as freeway, & the nearby part of Highway One that diarrhea between a town and a base is too a expressway, them thruway segments don't directly attach to both more.

Air

Santa Maria Public Airport offers regular commercial flights to Los Angeles International Airport, an airport hotel, & a few rental car facilities.

Rail

A Santa Maria Valley Railroad (SMVRR) occurs as shortline freight railroad to Guadalupe.

A close train station with long-distance Amtrak service is in Guadalupe. A Pacific Surfliner line runs twice daily within both counsel.

Bus
There exists local bus company provided by two city & county-start lines, but not in the evening.

Long-few feet away intercity bus company is provided by Greyhound Lines.

San Luis Obispo RTA likewise diarrhea a line Tenner that travels between Santa Maria & San Luis Obispo primarily within weekdays, by having tercet trips in every counsel in Saturdays.