A vicinity is known primarily for agriculture and tourism. Major crops include lettuce, strawberries, and artichokes. Particularly, a Salinas Valley is one of the virtually all fertile agricultural regions in the United States. Popular tourer attractions include Cannery Row (in Monterey), the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the golf courses of Pebble Beach and the Monterey Peninsula, the rugged coastline of Big Sur and Hearst Castle in San Simeon.

Overall, a locality is does'nt super densely populated, non surprising looking for that a primary industry is agriculture. A big city in the region is Salinas, with approximately 150,000 population. Due to the moo people density of the central coast, training & ethnical resouces come comparatively just. University of California campuses are incurred each around Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara, on the extreme north & in the south edges of the area, severally. One of a universities observed inside a central coast locality itself is California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB), founded in 1994 using facilities donated when Fort Ord was converted from war machine to civilian utilizes. Around San Luis Obispo the state university California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) was founded in 1901, & has been fully operation for decades. This campus is the sister campus of the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Travel through the locality is nearly completely by personal machine, since mass transit is limited to the handful of municipal bus lines. Amtrak maintains train service with a Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner routes. Because of its position about midway between a major cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, San Luis Obispo is home to America's number one motel. No major drome. A sole major main road in the area is 101, which runs n-south throughout a entire central coast. This main road diarrhea from either Los Angeles, over a Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and connects a Central Coast to the Bay Area in the north. The little however great deal other scenic route (Big Sur, Morro Bay, San Simeon) California State Route 1, connects the numerous coastal communities together.