San Ramon

In San Ramon, the jobs came first. Bishop Ranch has been a major employment center since the 1980s, and the city grew up around it, so that center sits inside city limits rather than a freeway away.

Why people move here

• Work close to home. Bishop Ranch anchors the local economy, and City Center Bishop Ranch added an open-air shopping and dining center right next to it.
• The Iron Horse Trail runs north through town toward Danville and Walnut Creek, entirely off-street.
• Central Park carries most of the city’s recreation; Las Trampas rises along the western ridge; Forest Home Farms preserves a working ranch inside the city.
• Newer housing stock than most of this valley. Much of San Ramon was built from the 1980s on, and Dougherty Valley later still.

Neighborhoods

Dougherty Valley is the large planned area east of the freeway, developed from the late 1990s with its own schools and parks. Bollinger Canyon and Twin Creeks sit west toward the ridge. The Country Club area surrounds the golf course near the older center of town.

All of San Ramon is San Ramon Valley Unified, shared with Danville, Alamo, and Diablo.