1. The Bay Area is home to more wealthy people than any other of the most populous US metro areas, according to the US Census.
2. The typical rent in San Francisco exceeds $4,000 — more than 2.5 times the typical national rent.
3. The typical price of homes listed in San Francisco is $1.3 million — 4.4 times the typical national price of homes listed.
4. One of the city's cheapest neighborhoods, Bayview, has an average home listing price of $890,000.
But some homes go for less than that — a 480-square-foot 'fixer' recently sold for $600,000.
According to the listing, it could "easily expand" to a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house as it sits on a 2,500 square-foot lot, reported Canales.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip Ad5. To buy a typical San Francisco home with a 20% down payment, residents need to earn $303,000 — what it takes more than six years for the median US worker to earn.
6. To live comfortably as a homeowner in San Francisco, residents need to earn $230,286 — what it takes the median US worker to earn in nearly five years.
7. Some residents are also living in houseboats and vans as a housing alternative.
8. Even tech moguls and startup founders are having trouble finding homes San Francisco, where real estate goes to the highest bidder.
9. The number of San Francisco residents living in vehicles has increased by 45%.
This has caused San Francisco's homeless population to increase by 17% to 8,011 over the past two years, reported Business Insider's Katie Canales, citing the San Francisco Chronicle.
The region's tech boom and housing shortage are behind these increases, which indicate that San Francisco's long-standing homelessness crisis is worsening, Canales said.
next slide will load in 15 secondsSkip AdSkip Ad10. San Francisco is the most expensive US city to raise a family; a family of four needs to earn $148,440 a year, nearly triple what the median US worker earns in one year.
That's $12,370 a month, according to Quentin Fottrell of MarketWatch, citing the Economic Policy Institute.
More than half of tech workers, who typically make a six-figure salary, said that the increased cost of living in the area has caused them to put off having kids, according to a survey by the app Blind.
11. A family of four earning up to $117,400 in the area is considered low-income — the highest threshold of its kind in the nation, according to the federal government.
12. A single person in San Francisco can expect to spend an annual total of $69,072 on necessities — nearly 50% more than what a median US worker earns in one year.
That's $5,756 a month, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Costs in this calculation include housing, food, transportation, healthcare, other necessities, and taxes, not including savings or discretionary spending.
13. San Francisco residents think it takes $4 million to be wealthy — nearly twice as much as what the rest of the nation thinks.