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The 'East Bay' is a subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States and is comprised of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. It lies on the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay and is generally considered to include not just the shorefront cities but the nearby inland valleys located on the east side of the Berkeley Hills.
San Francisco Bay's eastern shore was once known as "Contra Costa" (literally "opposite coast"), a name now used for and exclusively associated with Contra Costa County, which occupies the East Bay shoreline's northern quarter and extensive inland areas, amounting to about half of the land area, with the remainder in Alameda County.

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Transportation

Major employers

In Pop Culture

Cities

Notes

External Links

Transportation

★ Highways: Interstates 80, 580, 680, 880, 980, California State Route 24 and California State Route 4 are the main highways of the East Bay. Minor Highways include California State Route 13, California State Route 84, California State Route 92, California State Route 238, Interstate 238, and California State Route 242

★ Mass-Transit (Rail): Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has an extensive route system feeding towards San Francisco. Amtrak California and Altamont Commuter Express (ACE) also operate rail services in the East Bay

★ Mass-Transit (Bus): AC Transit, County Connection, WestCAT, WHEELS, Tri-Delta Transit, Union City Transit provide bus service in the East Bay

Major employers

The East Bay is an economically well-developed area offering many employment opportunities. The largest employers are:
:# University of California, Berkeley with approximately 20,000 employees ^[1]
:# AT&T with around 11,000 employees
:# The U.S. Postal Service with around 10,000 employees
:# Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with approximately 8,750 employees
:# Chevron Corp. with 8,730 employees
:# The county of Contra Costa County by offering 8,416 jobs
:# Safeway with 7,922 employees
:# Bank of America with 7,081 employees
:# PG&E employing roughly 5,200 people
:# New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) about 5,100 employees
:# Kaiser Permanente with 4,730 employees
:# Lucky Stores with 4,631 employees
:# Bio-Rad Laboratories with 4,300 employees
:# Wells Fargo that has around 4,000 people working for them in the East Bay
:# Mount Diablo Unified School District with 3,700 employees
:# West Contra Costa Unified School District with 3,360 employees
:# John Muir Medical Center with 3,023
Other companies include Pixar, Longs Drugs and Contra Costa Newspapers all of which have their headquarters in the East Bay. "Office of County Administrator; County Audit, and various published sources, including San Francisco Chronicle, May 2002; East Bay Business Times, November 2001; San Francisco Business Times, November 1999. Data is for the reported entity’s latest fiscal year." as seen on: [2]

In Pop Culture

★ In 1995, punk rock band Rancid released a song titled "Journey to the End of the East Bay" on their ''...And Out Come the Wolves'' album.This song is about Tim Armstrong's former band Operation Ivy, which originated in the East Bay

★ During the 1990s, the band AFI classified themselves as East Bay Hardcore, including this title on merchandise at the time.

★ East Oakland has been known as the birthplace of Hyphy.

★ East Bay was known for punk rock music in the late 80's to early 90's and is the birthplace of bands like Operation Ivy, Rancid, Grimple, Green Day, Filth, Blatz, and AFI

Cities

Except for its mountains and hills which remain undeveloped and some farmland in eastern Contra Costa and Alameda Counties, the East Bay is highly urbanized. The East Bay shoreline is an urban corridor with several cities exceeding 100,000 residents, including, Oakland, Hayward, Fremont, Richmond, and Berkeley. In the inland valleys on the east side of the Berkeley Hills, the land is fairly well developed, but there are areas which are still rapidly growing, particularly on the eastern fringe of Contra Costa county and the Tri-Valley area. In the inland valleys, the housing stock tends to be more suburban, the population density less and the cities smaller. The only cities exceeding 100,000 residents in the inland valleys are Antioch and Concord.
East Bay cities include:

★ Alameda

★ Albany

★ Antioch

★ Bay Point

★ Berkeley

★ Brentwood

★ Castro Valley

★ Concord

★ Danville

★ Dublin

★ El Cerrito

★ Emeryville

★ Fremont

★ Hayward

★ Hercules

★ Kensington

★ Lafayette

★ Livermore

★ Martinez

★ Moraga

★ Newark

★ North Richmond

★ Oakland

★ Oakley

★ Orinda

★ Piedmont

★ Pittsburg

★ Pinole

★ Pleasant Hill

★ Pleasanton

★ Richmond

★ Rodeo

★ San Leandro

★ San Lorenzo

★ San Ramon

★ Sunol

★ Union City

★ Walnut Creek

Notes

1. "University of California Statistical Summary and Data on UC Students, Faculty, and Staff" at [1]

External Links

★ CalEJ.org launched Fall 2006, this user-generated wiki features an environmental justice guide to the San Francisco Bay Area, with an early focus on the East Bay

★ [3] East Bay rental property