Hayward, California (usa)

Hayward, California

Hayward, California ranks 2,518th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Independence, Missouri, Traverse City, Michigan, and Rüsselsheim am Main. Memorable people born in Hayward, California include Dwayne Johnson, Art Larsen, and Claudia Kolb. Memorable people who died in Hayward, California include Jim Hines. Hayward, California has been the birth place of many actors, and basketball players and the death place of many athletes. Hayward, California is located in United States.

Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 36th most populous municipality in California. It is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Census. It is located primarily between Castro Valley, San Leandro and Union City, and lies at the eastern terminus of the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge. The city was devastated early in its history by the 1868 Hayward earthquake. From the early 20th century until the beginning of the 1980s, Hayward's economy was dominated by its now defunct food canning and salt production industries. Read more on Wikipedia