Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Cambria, CA

Cambria is an unincorporated seaside village and census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, sitting on Highway 1 roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Cambria had a population of 5,678 at the 2020 census, down from 6,032 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 2,695 households in Cambria averaging just 2.1 people each, with about 74.5 percent of homes owner-occupied.

Cambria is one of the oldest communities on California's Central Coast by age: its median resident age is 63 years, and about 45 percent of residents are 65 or older.

The name Cambria, adopted in 1869, is the Latin name for Wales; before that the settlement went by Slabtown, Rosaville, San Simeon, and Santa Rosa.

The Chumash people knew the Cambria site as tsɨtkawayu, an Obispeno name meaning 'place of the horses.'

The Spanish Portola expedition camped on Santa Rosa Creek at Cambria in September 1769 and returned on December 24-25, 1769, spending the first Christmas in what became Cambria; the soldiers named the site El Osito.

Cambria lies on the Rancho Santa Rosa Mexican land grant of 1841 to Julian Estrada, and the settlement began as Slab Town centered at Leffingwell Cove, at the north end of today's Moonstone Beach.

Cinnabar discovered in 1862 touched off a quicksilver boom around Cambria; the Oceanic Quicksilver Mining Company employed about 300 men and was at one time the sixth-largest mercury mine in the world.

Cambria sits amid one of only three native Monterey pine forests in the world.