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Explore Silicon Valley Market Trends with everything you need to know about the region’s most dynamic cities. From real-time housing reports and pricing insights to the history, population, and lifestyle of each community, you’ll also find highlights like top-rated schools and neighborhood features. Whether you’re buying, selling, or just curious about Silicon Valley, this section helps you stay informed and confident.
San Jose is a cultural, commercial, and political center, before the arrival of the Spanish, the area around San Jose was long inhabited by the Tamien nation of the Ohlone people. San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first city founded in the Californias.
CITY OF SAN JOSÉ
The city's population was 127,647 at the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in the Bay Area. Located in the southern Bay Area, the city was founded by the Spanish in 1777 with the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asís under the leadership of Junípero Serra.
CITY OF SANTA CLARA
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley. Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters. Many technology companies are headquartered in Sunnyvale and many more operate there, including several aerospace/defense companies.
CITY OF SUNNYVALE
Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Located in Silicon Valley, in the southern Bay Area, it had a population of 31,051 at the 2020 census. Saratoga is known for its wineries, restaurants, and historic landmarks like Villa Montalvo, Mountain Winery, and Hakone Gardens.
CITY OF SARATOGA
Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California. Los Gatos is Spanish for "The Cats". The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos ("The Corner of the Cats"), where the cats refers to the cougars (mountain lions) and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
CITY OF LOS GATOS
Monte Sereno (Spanish for "Serene Mountain") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 3,479 at the 2020 census. The community is entirely residential with no commercial zoning and 99% single-family housing. It is an upscale Silicon Valley commuter town.
CITY OF MONTE SERENO
Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California. Prior to the founding of the neighborhood, the land was occupied by the Ohlone, the Native American people of the Northern California coast, The area of Campbell was founded by Benjamin Campbell (1826–1907), after whom the city is named.
CITY OF CAMPBELL
Cupertino is a city in Santa Clara County, California. Named for a local creek by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's cartographer bearing the name of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Cupertino was officially incorporated in 1955. The area was originally an agricultural community producing prunes, apricots and cherries, with a winery joining the ranks by the 19th century.
CITY OF CUPERTINO
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, William Shockley established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in Silicon Valley. Mountain View houses the headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies.
CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW
Palo Alto (Spanish for 'tall stick') is in northwestern Santa Clara California, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto was incorporated in 1894 by the American industrialist Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane Stanford, when they founded Stanford University in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr.
CITY OF PALO ALTO
CITY OF MILPITAS
Milpitas (Spanish for 'little milpas' or little cornfields) is a city in Santa Clara County, California. The city’s modern development began in the mid-20th century, driven by postwar suburbanization and its incorporation in 1954. Milpitas experienced rapid growth during the 1970s–1990s, fueled by Silicon Valley’s tech industry, and became a hub for manufacturing and corporate offices.
CITY OF LOS ALTOS
Los Altos (Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California. Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, Los Altos strictly limits commercial zones to the downtown area and small shopping and office parks lining Foothill Expressway and El Camino Real.
CITY OF MORGAN HILL
Morgan Hill is an affluent residential community, the seat of several high-tech companies, and a dining and recreational destination, owing to its luxury hospitality, wineries, and nature parks. Prior to the arrival of Spanish colonists, Santa Clara Valley had been inhabited by the Tamien nation of Ohlone people for more than 6,000 years.
CITY OF MENLO PARK
Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Located at the eastern edge of the county, it's known because the train station holds the record as the oldest continually operating station in California. It is one of the most educated cities in the United States; nearly 70% of the residents over 25 have earned a bachelor's degree or higher.
CITY OF FREMONT
Fremont is a city in Alameda County, Ca. The city's origins lie in the community that arose around Mission San José, founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Padre Fermín Lasuén. Fremont is named after John C. Frémont, a general who helped lead the American Conquest of California from Mexico and later served as Military Governor of California and then U.S. Senator.
CITY OF ATHERTON
Atherton is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, Ca. The town's zoning regulations permit only one single-family home per acre in new subdivisions, though smaller lots exist from prior zoning laws. Atherton is known for its high concentration of wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. places and is regularly ranked as having the highest cost of living in the country.
