Oakland, CA (population: 412,612) has twenty-three automotive schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. Charles A. Jones Skills and Business Education Center, the highest ranked school in this group with an automotive program, has a total student population of 1,618. It is the 1337th highest ranked school in the USA and the 107th highest in the state of California (#1 is University of California-Los Angeles).
Automotive students from Oakland schools who go on to become automotive technicians, automotive engineers, mechanics, automotive specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 606,990 people working as automotive service technicians and mechanics alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $37,880. Also, Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles make on average $29,880 per year and there are about 17,090 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area alone, there are 290 employed electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles earning an average salary of $30,100. Automotive service technicians and mechanics in this area earn $50,200/yr and there are 4,750 employed.
Oakland lies in Alameda county, which is one of the 57 counties in California. Overall, the Oakland-Fremont-Hayward Metropolitan area has 990,570 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 1% unemployment rate, $26/hr average worker wage, and a $54,590 average annual salary. Thus, about 5 out of every 1000 jobs in Oakland are held by automotive service technicians and mechanics, and 0/1000 are held by electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles.
Of the 23 automotive schools with a 100-mile radius of Oakland, only 14 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Universal Technical Institute of Northern California Inc comes out as the most expensive ($61,074/yr) for automotive students, with De Anza College as the lowest, reported at only $3,899/yr.
Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from Oakland |
Alameda | CA | 71,628 | 3 | 11.6549 | 62 | 2.2 miles |
San Leandro | CA | 78,904 | 1 | 29.9223 | 11 | 5.6 miles |
Berkeley | CA | 102,237 | 13 | 2.98519 | 59 | 7.4 miles |
Castro Valley | CA | 65,952 | 0 | - | 0 | 9.7 miles |
Hayward | CA | 145,517 | 6 | 17.5402 | 239 | 11.7 miles |
San Francisco | CA | 817,411 | 21 | 17.5697 | 455 | 12.6 miles |
Walnut Creek | CA | 64,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.3 miles |
South San Francisco | CA | 64,345 | 0 | - | 0 | 13.3 miles |
San Mateo | CA | 93,990 | 1 | 15.1982 | 101 | 15.3 miles |
Union City | CA | 76,462 | 1 | 13.7752 | 0 | 16.1 miles |
Dublin | CA | 46,208 | 3 | 13.8145 | 117 | 17.3 miles |
Concord | CA | 122,338 | 7 | 21.1076 | 136 | 18.3 miles |
Fremont | CA | 207,431 | 5 | 26.457 | 262 | 20.5 miles |
Vallejo | CA | 114,029 | 1 | 31.5233 | 11 | 23.6 miles |
Pittsburg | CA | 67,613 | 2 | 20.7913 | 157 | 25.0 miles |
Antioch | CA | 102,439 | 2 | 25.0238 | 14 | 27.5 miles |
Sunnyvale | CA | 135,564 | 4 | 17.5213 | 21 | 28.3 miles |
Milpitas | CA | 69,900 | 1 | 18.2292 | 19 | 29.7 miles |
Santa Clara | CA | 112,889 | 4 | 29.9373 | 188 | 30.9 miles |
Fairfield | CA | 104,184 | 9 | 23.8893 | 386 | 34.6 miles |
Napa | CA | 75,759 | 1 | 15.1485 | 56 | 36.9 miles |
San Jose | CA | 977,893 | 9 | 20.6572 | 297 | 38.3 miles |
Stockton | CA | 291,422 | 7 | 28.794 | 278 | 51.6 miles |
Santa Cruz | CA | 57,690 | 2 | 37.6705 | 80 | 56.2 miles |
Salida | CA | - | 2 | 26.0837 | 19 | 62.2 miles |
Laguna | CA | 60,976 | 0 | - | 0 | 62.6 miles |
West Sacramento | CA | 50,542 | 1 | 29.8049 | 4 | 65.7 miles |
Woodland | CA | 56,758 | 0 | - | 0 | 67.5 miles |
Modesto | CA | 203,882 | 4 | 24.9737 | 137 | 67.7 miles |
Sacramento | CA | 475,452 | 20 | 22.3687 | 626 | 68.7 miles |