Livermore

Who needs the Napa Valley when you have over 40 wineries in your backyard? The city of Livermore, on the eastern edge of the Bay Area, boasts a Mediterranean climate, beautiful scenery, and is one of California’s premier wine-growing regions. On top of that, it constantly receives “A” grades for its schools and ethnic diversity.

With a population of 90,000, the largest in the Tri-Valley Area, Livermore was the only city in California awarded as an “All-American City” at the annual National Civic League ceremony in 2021. Formerly called Nottingham, Livermore was renamed for Robert Livermore, a rancher who settled in the area and planted the first wine grapes here. Today, it is home to the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, “a premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security,” which is also the city’s largest employer. The “Lawrence” in the lab’s name comes from Ernest Lawrence, recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the particle accelerator called a cyclotron.

Many of your neighbors may be scientists and tech professionals, but the blend of agriculture and city life, along with an affordable cost of housing, draws people of all backgrounds to call Livermore a warm, inviting place to call home.