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Santa Cruz County

Santa Cruz County, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 270,861. The county seat is Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is on the California Central Coast, south of the San Francisco Bay Area region. The county forms the northern coast of the Monterey Bay, with Monterey County forming the southern coast.

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Reference data (Census of Governments 2022)

Census ID (PID6): 194942
FIPS state: 06
FIPS county: 087
FIPS place: 99087
Census record name: COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ
Mailing address: 701 OCEAN ST, SANTA CRUZ 95060