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San Jose.

2.00 million people live in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area. Households earn a median $164,801 a year and median gross rent is $2,827 a month (ACS 2024).

San Jose, California cityscape
San Jose, California · Photo creditBen Loomis · CC BY 2.0 · Resized and cropped.
The metro at a glance · ACS 2024

San Jose at a glance.

Households earn a median $164,801 a year. Professional, scientific, and management, and administrative, and waste management services is the largest employment sector among residents, at 24.1% of employed residents.

35% of commuters reach work in under 20 minutes, while 15% of all workers work from home. Median gross rent is $2,827 a month.

Everyday life · ACS 2024

Rent, commuting and remote work.

$2,827median monthly gross rent
34.8%commute under 20 minutes
14.6%work from home
What these numbers mean

Median gross rent includes contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities for renter-occupied units paying cash rent. It reflects existing tenants, not today’s advertised rents. Commute times cover workers age 16+ who do not work from home; work-from-home and transit shares cover all workers age 16+. Survey estimates have margins of error; small rank differences may not be statistically meaningful.

Census ACS 2024 · B25064 / B08303 / B08301 ↗
Income · ACS 2024
Median household income$164,801per year · ±$4,433
Per-capita income$80,811per resident · ±$1,377
US Census Bureau · ACS 2024 1-year via Census Reporter ↗
Job market · ACS 2024

The local economy.

Unemployment5.3%
Labor-force participation67.7%
IndustryShare of employed residents
Professional & business services
24.1%
Education & health
20.3%
Manufacturing
14.8%
US Census Bureau via Census Reporter · B23025 / B24030 ↗
Climate · 2001–2020 averages

Weather through the year.

July mean temperature75°F
Estimated monthly precipitation0.0in
36°59°82°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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Where these numbers come fromData & methodology
Source
Census ACS 2024 one-year ↗Income, employment, rent and commuting via Census Reporter. Weather: NASA POWER / MERRA-2. Housing: Demographia 2026 edition · Read the source ↗
Period
2024ACS survey year 2024 · climate averages 2001–2020 · house prices Q3 2025
Coverage
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area31000US41940 · one of 58 metros. Housing-market boundaries, not city limits; source boundaries may differ from ACS metros.
Definition
Gross household income, not individual salaryGross rent includes tenant-paid utilities for existing tenants, not asking rent. Home prices exclude interest, tax, insurance and maintenance. Climate is a modelled average at one reference point, not live weather.

Ranks are ordinal positions among these 58 metros; survey margins of error are retained in the source data and small differences may not be statistically meaningful. Data definitions and sources also appear in each section. San Jose, California photograph: Ben Loomis · CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; resized and cropped. Related-metro thumbnails are credited on their own profiles. Climate reference point: 36.91°, -121.37°.

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