The Perfect Christian Divine Way was incorporated in 1918, with three directors:
- W. E. Riker, chairman
- Anna Schramm, secretary
- Irvin B. Fisher
The community at that time numbered perhaps a dozen. By the 1930 census, 33 men and 8 women were recorded as living at Holy City:
- William E. Riker - 58, head
- Lucille Riker - 42, wife
- Gottlieb Stauss - 49
- Emma Stauss - 53, his wife
- Margaret Stauss - 16, their daughter, cared for the animals
- Emma Phillips - 53
- Andrew Spath - 62, gardener
- Arthur Kastner - 43, zookeeper, handyman
- Claude Grant - 37
- William Walden - 59
- Alfred Collins - 39
- Carl Nelson - 60
- Charley Anderson - 56, wrote for the Holy City Hurrah
- Harmen Leopold - 66
- Joe Albert - 39, general manager
- Albert R. Derostaing - 65
- Ulysses Spurgeon - 55
- Arthur Landstrom - 40, town clerk
- Fred Rommel - 39, electrician, built radio transmitter and antenna for KFQU, familiar with phone systems
- Victor Miller - 24
- Harry Reynolds - 36, "Daddy of Holy City Garage"
- David L. Capps - 51
- E. Winifred Allington - 50, secretary and later postmistress
- Stephen Rozum - 45, printer
- Edward Bachman - 31, laundryman
- Frank Redman - 65
- John Rifford - 70
- George O. Yates - 64
- Otto Lossin - 44, baker
- Joseph T. Witzik - 47, "real estate agent and astronomer," killed by I.B. Fisher in 1942
- Johenna R. Gross - 45
- Albert Thiele - 50, wrote for Hurrah
- David Marshall - 55
- Rubin Spizer - 60
- Emil Rechsteiner - 52, barber
- John Fraser - 58
- Charles Northy - 54
- Thomas Davidson - 52
- L. E. "Nottie" Nottingham - 74, cook, matron of the "children's department"
- Anna Schramm - 52, secretary
- Frank McCollum - 59
Source: Los Gatos History Collection, Los Gatos Library, Folder "Mountain Communities." Year: 1930; Census Place: Redwood, Santa Clara, California; Roll: 217; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 31; Image: 1049.0