Serra Highlands, South San Francisco

Serra Highlands is a small, middle-of-the-road South San Francisco neighborhood encompassing about a dozen neighborhood blocks. It spans about .2 square miles of residential terrain with a total population of less than 2,000. Demographically speaking, Serra Highlands is a predominately white neighborhood while hispanic and asian residents make up a large minority. It is also wedged up against Junipero Serra Boulevard, and is somewhat surrounded by cemeteries (Cypress Lawn Memorial and Holy Cross Cemetery to the north, Golden Gate National Cemetery to the south). Elsewhere, Buri Buri Elementary lies on the eastern corner of the neighborhood.

The district’s residential quarters differ from block to block. You’ll typically find somewhat unappealing areas congregated at the core of the neighborhood while nicer, two-story homes are situated along the district’s fringe. San Felipe Avenue bolsters the most attractive residents. Aesthetically speaking, homes are tightly packed into rows with little privacy. They lay ground to small, but charming grassy yards and newly paved suburban streets. For perspective home buyers, housing prices are in the range of $500,000 to 1 million. Moreover, median yearly household incomes are upwards of $75,000.

For your commercial needs, shoppers typically travel to Westborough Square Shopping Center for their errands. Its a typical residential shopping plaza outfitted with a Radio Shack, Subway, an Orchard Supply Hardware store, Walgreens, a small grocery store and a Round Table Pizza (and with plenty of public parking). Others travel up Highway 280 towards the Serramonte Shopping Center for their small boutique shopping to department store shopping center and everything in between. The neighborhood is also within two blocks of the South San Francisco Bart Station. The rail serves the whole city and connects commuters to the greater Bay Area.

Serra Highlands is a respectable enough abundance of streets that make for a decent community and overall enjoyable neighborhoods in the South San Francisco area. The one good thing about Serra Highlands is that there are plenty of starter homes for decent prices that are available in the ever climbing California real estate market as far as money is concerned. So there are quite a lot of younger families in the Serra Highlands area. One of the biggest attractions in the Serra Highlands neighborhoods is the annual Farmer's Market which draws people from all over the surrounding South San Francisco area for great and fresh produce and other food items. There are summer concerts and even a rally for preventing pollution. Serra Highlands is an up and coming neighborhood that will gain strength in the years to come. Traffic delays are common on the weekends though as in most places in California.