Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
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for "Sea Hill") is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
San Mateo County
San Mateo County ( ), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City, California, Redwood City is th ...
,
California
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area code 650
Area code 650 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It was split from area code 415 on August 2, 1997, and includes most of San Mateo County (except ...
Santa Cruz Mountains
The Santa Cruz Mountains ( Mutsun Ohlone: Mak-sah-re-jah, "Sharp Ridged Mountain of the Eagle" or "People of the Eagle Mountain") are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States, constituting a part of the Pacific Coast R ...
in the western part of the
San Francisco Peninsula
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. The
United States Postal Service
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census
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of 2020, there were 134 residents in the CDP. Loma Mar is home to the
YMCA
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches w ...
's Camp Loma Mar, Redwood Glen Camp and Conference Center as well as a small number of businesses and services including the Loma Mar Store, a post office, and a fire station run by volunteers.
Geography
The town is located within a
redwood
Sequoioideae, commonly referred to as redwoods, is a subfamily of Pinophyta, coniferous trees within the family (biology), family Cupressaceae, that range in the Northern Hemisphere, northern hemisphere. It includes the List of superlative tree ...
forest, and is traversed by the
Pescadero Creek
Pescadero Creek is a major stream in Santa Cruz County, California, Santa Cruz and San Mateo County, California, San Mateo counties in California, United States. At ,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline d ...
.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP covers an area of 1.7 square miles (4.5 km), all of it land.
Demographics
The 2020 United States census reported that Loma Mar had a population of 134. The population density was . The racial makeup of Loma Mar was 112 (83.6%)
White
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, 2 (1.5%)
African American
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Pacific Islander
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, 5 (3.7%) from other races, and 15 (11.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 14 persons (10.4%).
The whole population lived in households. There were 57 households, out of which 9 (15.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 27 (47.4%) were married-couple households, 5 (8.8%) were
cohabiting
Cohabitation is an arrangement where people who are not legally married live together as a couple. They are often involved in a romantic or sexually intimate relationship on a long-term or permanent basis. Such arrangements have become incr ...
couple households, 21 (36.8%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 4 (7.0%) had a male householder with no partner present. 17 households (29.8%) were one person, and 5 (8.8%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.35. There were 35
families
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(61.4% of all households).
The age distribution was 17 people (12.7%) under the age of 18, 3 people (2.2%) aged 18 to 24, 42 people (31.3%) aged 25 to 44, 31 people (23.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 41 people (30.6%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 49.3years. There were 56 males and 78 females.
There were 70 housing units at an average density of , of which 57 (81.4%) were occupied. Of these, 31 (54.4%) were owner-occupied, and 26 (45.6%) were occupied by renters.
Schools
Loma Mar is within the boundaries of the
La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District
La Honda−Pescadero Unified School District is a K−12 school district in California that serves the south coast of San Mateo County, including the communities of Pescadero, Loma Mar, and La Honda. It consists of three schools: two elementa ...
and has a bus stop located on Pescadero Creek Road across from the store, but does not have a school of its own.