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Hayward, California
Hayward
(; formerly,
Haywards
,
Haywards Station
, and
Haywood
) is a city located in
Alameda County, California
in the
East Bay
subregion of the
San Francisco Bay Area
. With a 2014 population of 149,392, Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area and the third largest in Alameda County. Hayward was ranked as the 37th most populous
municipality in California
. It is included in the
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
Metropolitan Statistical Area
by the
US Census
. It is located primarily between
Castro Valley
and
Union City
, and lies at the eastern terminus of the
San Mateo-Hayward Bridge
. The city was devastated early in its history by the namesake
1868 Hayward earthquake
. From the early 20th century until the beginning of the 1980s, Hayward's economy was dominated by its now defunct food canning and salt production industries.
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