Edna is a

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San Luis Obispo County San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a county on the Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 282,424. The county seat is San Luis Obispo. Junípero Serra fou ...

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. Edna is at an elevation of around . The 2020 United States census reported Edna's population was 184. It is best known for the wine industry in the

Edna Valley AVA Edna Valley is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in San Luis Obispo (SLO) County, California encompassing the rural town of Edna which is southeast of the county seat San Luis Obispo and north of the small coastal town Arroyo Gran ...

History

The community was founded by Dairyman Edgar Steele who purchased 58,000 acres and built a town to house his employees. In 1883 Lynford Maxwell subdivided the area and called it Maxwellton. The citizens later renamed it Edna. There was coal tar mining of bituminous rock in the 1880s and 1890s and more recently wine grape growing has become the prominent industry.

Geography

According to the

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, the CDP covers an area of , all of it land. The valley also includes Edna Fault, a prominent landform just south of the main community.

Demographics

Edna first appeared as a

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in the 2010 U.S. Census.

2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Edna had a population of 184. The population density was . The racial makeup of Edna was 152 (82.6%)

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, 0 (0.0%)

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, 1 (0.5%) Native American, 1 (0.5%) Asian, 0 (0.0%)

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, 13 (7.1%) from other races, and 17 (9.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 20 persons (10.9%). The whole population lived in households. There were 81 households, out of which 32 (39.5%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 55 (67.9%) were married-couple households, 3 (3.7%) were

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couple households, 6 (7.4%) had a female householder with no partner present, and 17 (21.0%) had a male householder with no partner present. 18 households (22.2%) were one person, and 8 (9.9%) were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.27. There were 62

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(76.5% of all households). The age distribution was 34 people (18.5%) under the age of 18, 8 people (4.3%) aged 18 to 24, 33 people (17.9%) aged 25 to 44, 60 people (32.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 49 people (26.6%) who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 51.8years. There were 111 males and 73 females. There were 84 housing units at an average density of , of which 81 (96.4%) were occupied. Of these, 61 (75.3%) were owner-occupied, and 20 (24.7%) were occupied by renters.

Education

It is in the

San Luis Coastal Unified School District San Luis Coastal Unified School District is a school district primarily in San Luis Obispo, California. Boundary The district includes the municipalities of San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay as well as the census-designated places of Avila Beach ...

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References

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