Marin City, California
| Marin City | |
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| census-designated place | |
 Marin City
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| Coordinates: 37°52′07″N 122°30′33″W / 37.86861°N 122.50917°WCoordinates: 37°52′07″N 122°30′33″W / 37.86861°N 122.50917°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 California
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| County | Marin County |
| Government | |
| • County Board | District 3 Kathrin Sears |
| • Senate | Mark Leno (D) |
| • Assembly | Marc Levine (D) |
| • U. S. Congress | Jared Huffman (D) |
| Area | |
| • census-designated place | 0.537 sq mi (1.390 km2) |
| • Land | 0.537 sq mi (1.390 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% |
| Elevation | 23 ft (7 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • census-designated place | 2,666 |
| • Density | 5,000/sq mi (1,900/km2) |
| • Metro | 7,468,390 |
| Time zone | PST (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| ZIP code | 94965 |
| Area codes | 415/628 |
Marin City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of downtown Sausalito, and about 5 miles north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge, at an elevation of 23 feet (7 m). Marin City was developed for housing starting in 1942, to accommodate war-time shipyard workers and other immigrants to California. After the war, the area became predominantly African-American, as white residents were able to move freely to private housing elsewhere in Marin. Since the 1980s, additional development has changed the makeup of the population while providing more local jobs. The population in 2010 was 2,666. Marin City's socioeconomic and racial makeup contrasts with the mostly wealthy and Caucasian populations in Marin County. In 2004 the community had high levels of poverty, crime, and recreational drug use. Marin City began to enjoy a newfound celebrity in the 1990s as the home of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Prior to World War II, the land that would become Marin City was home to a dairy farm and a handful of families. Soon after war was declared on December 8, 1941, Marin City was rapidly built during 1942 in order to house 6,000 of the 20,000 workers who migrated from all over the United States, attracted by the jobs at Marinship, the Sausalito waterfront shipyard. A total of 93 liberty ships and tankers were built and launched from Marinship in less than three years.
Many of the African-American shipyard laborers who had migrated from the Southern U.S. ended up living permanently in Marin City either by choice or because many black families were not allowed to live or buy homes in the towns surrounding Marin City. They became the core of the community when most of the other guest laborers departed at the end of the war. During the war, African-Americans comprised about 10% of Marin City's population. By the 1970s, African Americans comprised over three quarters of the population of Marin City, most of whom traced their roots to the Marinship laborers.
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