Significant Facts: Metropolitan San Jose
The San Jose Metropolitan Area (Santa Clara County) ranks first in the
nation in median household effective buying income ($62,725) among all
metropolitan areas. Source: 2003 Survey of Buying Power, Sales &
Marketing Management Magazine.
The City of San Jose is the 10th largest city in the United States and
the third largest in California with a population of 928,800. Source:
2003 Survey of Buying Power, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine.
San Jose has the lowest crime rate of any major city in the U.S.
(population of 500,000 or more). Source: FBI statistics.
Out of 582,300 households in the San Jose Metropolitan Area, 63.4
percent have incomes of $50,000 or more. Source: 2003 Survey of Buying
Power, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine.
The San Jose Metropolitan Area is home to over 7,300 high technology
companies employing over 300,000 people. Source: City of San Jose Office
of Economic Development.
One out of every 4.5 workers in Santa Clara County is employed in
manufacturing (194.5 workers out of a total employment of 878,700).
Source: California Employment Development Department.
San Jose is the site of the oldest civil settlement in California,
established in 1777. Source: San Jose City Historian.
San Jose ranked first among large metropolitan areas as a world class
manufacturing community based on manufacturing strength and the high
productivity of area workers.
San Jose metropolitan area continues to have the highest productivity
level of any region in the U.S. Source: City of San Jose, Office of
Economic Development
Leading the nation in the number of high-tech companies, San Jose is
appropriately known as the "Capital of Silicon Valley." Source: City of
San Jose, Office of Economic Development
The education level of the San Jose metropolitan area workforce is one
of the highest in the U.S. - 67 percent of the workforce has some
college education and 40 percent have earned a college degree. Source:
City of San Jose, Office of Economic Development
Fortune magazine has called San Jose "the epicenter of information
technology." Source: City of San Jose, Office of Economic Development
Santa Clara County ranks first among all nine Bay Area counties in:
- Population - 1,290,900. Source: State of California Estimates.
- Total retail sales - $30.6 billion in 2002. Source: 2003 Survey of
Buying Power, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine.
- Total net effective buying income - $46.1 billion in 2002. Source:
2003 Survey of Buying Power, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine.
- Total manufacturing employment - 194,500 in 2002. Source:
California Employment Development Department.
- San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce -
San Jose content reprinted with permission from
San Jose Area Chamber of Commerce
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