San Benito County, California
San Benito County ( ; San Benito, Spanish for "St. Benedict"), officially the County of San Benito, is a county located in the Central Coast region of California. Situated in the California Coast Ranges, the county had a population of 64,209, as of the 2020 United States census. The county seat is the city of Hollister.
While not part of the traditional nine-county definition of the San Francisco Bay Area, the U.S. Census Bureau includes San Benito County in the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan statistical area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland combined statistical area. El Camino Real passes through the county and includes one mission in San Juan Bautista.