99th pct · 6th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
98th pct · 2nd of 58 California counties · median $500,264
Home value, one year
+0.3%
as of August 2026
23rd pct · 2,337th of 3,063 US counties · median +2.9%
50th pct · 29th of 58 California counties · median +0.3%
Typical rent
$3,821
as of August 2026
99th pct · 8th of 1,399 US counties · median $1,496
93rd pct · 4th of 49 California counties · median $2,340
Jobs
1,126,059
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 12th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
94th pct · 4th of 58 California counties · median 74,865
Average weekly wage
$4,446
as of 2026 Q1-01
99th pct · 3rd of 3,221 US counties · median $1,039
98th pct · 2nd of 58 California counties · median $1,206
Years of wages per home
6.8
86th pct · 409th of 3,063 US counties · median 4.3
38th pct · 36th of 58 California counties · median 7.4
Typical home value divided by the average annual wage of one covered job.
A percentile here is a min-max scaling of average rank: the smallest published value in the cohort is 0 and the largest is 100, and tied values share the average of the ranks they span. It is not the share of entities below the value, so 0 means smallest, not none below. Entities that did not publish the metric are outside the cohort entirely and are counted in neither the rank nor its denominator.
Typical home $1.6 m (Aug 2026), +0.3% over one year, +17.4% over five
99th pct · 6th of 3,063 US counties · median $234,566
98th pct · 2nd of 58 California counties · median $500,264
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Item
Value
Distance
Santa Clara County, CA
$1.6 m · +0.3% 1-yr
Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), typical value of homes in the 35th to 65th percentile, smoothed and seasonally adjusted; a model estimate of value, not a sale price. Data through Zillow Research.
Principal and interest of $8,575 a month on $1,566,638 at 7.28%, against an average weekly wage worth $19,266 a month: 44.5% of one job’s pay.
payment = P·r / (1 − (1+r)^−n), P = $1.6 m × 80% = $1.3 m, r = 7.28%/12 (Freddie Mac PMMS via FRED, 2026-10-01), n = 360 → $8,575/mo principal and interest
wage share = payment / (avg weekly wage $4,446 × 52 / 12 = $19,266) = 45% of one average job's pay (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all covered jobs)
years of wages = $1.6 m / ($4,446 × 52) = 6.8
price-to-rent = $1.6 m / ($3,821 × 12) = 34.2
The wage is one covered job’s average, not a household’s income, so this is the share of a single paycheque and not a mortgage underwriting ratio.
Estimate. Principal and interest on the typical home with 20% down over 30 years at this week's Freddie Mac average rate; compared with the average weekly wage of all jobs covered by unemployment insurance in the area (BLS QCEW), which is pay per job, not household income.
1.13 m jobs at 89,281 employers (2026 Q1); +1.2% jobs and +8.4% average weekly wage over the year
99th pct · 12th of 3,221 US counties · median 8,232
94th pct · 4th of 58 California counties · median 74,865
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
Item
Value
Distance
Santa Clara County, CA
1.13 m jobs · $4,446/wk · +1.2% YoY
BLS QCEW, all ownerships, third month of the quarter. A location quotient of 1.00 means this county has the national share of its jobs in that sector; 2.00 means twice it. A withheld row is a BLS disclosure code N: the cell is absent, not zero.
NAICS sector
Jobs
Avg weekly wage
Location quotient
Jobs over the year
Health care and social assistance
161,719
$1,707
0.95
+3.2%
Professional and technical services
153,673
$6,959
1.98
-0.6%
Manufacturing
124,467
$8,120
1.37
+0.6%
Information
88,997
$13,422
4.29
-5.7%
Accommodation and food services
82,849
$775
0.82
-0.2%
Retail trade
69,272
$1,429
0.63
-0.4%
Management of companies
62,583
$6,351
3.32
+8.8%
Administrative and waste services
58,417
$1,486
0.91
+5.0%
Construction
50,892
$2,295
0.86
+3.6%
Educational services
45,135
$2,093
1.86
-1.2%
Wholesale trade
26,820
$4,073
0.62
+0.0%
Other services
26,496
$1,193
0.79
+1.2%
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, all ownerships, total covered employment in the quarter's third month; over-the-year changes as published. Suppressed cells stay blank.
No drought class at this point (USDM covers the United States only)
Sites found: 5, searched within 0 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 0 km away are not.
US Drought Monitor current week; the highest class of any polygon containing the point.
2 USGS reservoir gauges, no capacity figures to weight
Sites found: 2, searched within 150 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 150 km away are not.
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
Site
Reading
Distance
TULLOCH RES NR KNIGHTS FERRY CA
58,820 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
120 km
DON PEDRO RES NR LA GRANGE CA
1,531,000 Acre-ft (USGS, no capacity on file)
124 km
Σ(capacity × percent full) / Σ capacity over TWDB reservoirs within 150 km. Texas only; elsewhere USGS reservoir elevation/storage is listed without a capacity to normalise by.
268 gauges · 0 flooding · 38 with quality panels averaging 84 % · 18 stale
Sites found: 268, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Site
Reading
Distance
USGS-372525121584701
turb. 38.4 FNU · quality 50 % (3) · STALE
33 km
MT EDEN C NR UNION CITY CA
turb. 118.0 FNU · quality 60 % (5) · STALE
57 km
USGS-372750122012701
stage 7.80 ft · quality 33 % (3)
39 km
ARROYO DE LA LAGUNA A VERONA CA
flow 5.73 ft³/s · quality 67 % (3) · no flooding
47 km
ALVISO SLOUGH NR ALVISO CA
turb. 114.0 FNU · quality 33 % (3) · STALE
36 km
USGS-373751122143601
turb. 5.30 FNU · quality 80 % (5) · STALE
66 km
SF BAY A SAN MATEO BRIDGE NR FOSTER CITY CA
turb. 8.40 FNU · quality 67 % (3)
63 km
USGS-372507121594801
DO 7.90 mg/l · quality 67 % (3)
34 km
USGS-373015122071000
turb. 29.6 FNU · quality 38 % (4)
49 km
MUD SLOUGH NR GUSTINE CA
flow 26.2 ft³/s · quality 50 % (2)
69 km
USGS latest readings screened against EPA freshwater criteria (DO ≥ 5 mg/L, pH 6.5–9, conductance, turbidity, temperature); NWS flood categories where a NWPS gauge is co-located.
Sites found: 5, searched within 75 km of this place’s internal point. That is a disc around a point, not the area itself: sites outside the boundary are included, and sites inside it further than 75 km away are not.
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
Site
Reading
Distance
USGS-374004122092105
depth 14.0 ft · 2026-08-06
64 km
USGS-374004122092104
depth 7.33 ft · 2026-08-06
64 km
USGS-374004122092106
depth 3.28 ft · 2026-08-06
64 km
USGS-374004122092102
depth 15.7 ft · 2026-08-06
64 km
USGS-374004122092103
depth 14.5 ft · 2026-08-06
64 km
USGS latest daily water levels. A single latest reading says where the table is, not which way it is moving; select a well for its 365-day trace.
$174.1 bn in deposits at 286 offices of 42 banks (SOD June 2026); HHI 1,529, moderately concentrated. $262,046 federal obligations in FY2026 (loans $262,046), $0 per covered job
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
Item
Value
Distance
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
$43.6 bn · 25.0% share · 3 offices
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$36.8 bn · 21.1% share · 45 offices
Bank of America, National Association
$25.7 bn · 14.7% share · 43 offices
Santa Clara, CA
$262,046 FY2026 · $0/job
FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 2026. These are institution offices, not people: the row is a bank's presence in the county.
Institution
Deposits
Share
Offices
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
$43,601,042,000
25.0%
3
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
$36,787,449,000
21.1%
45
Bank of America, National Association
$25,658,555,000
14.7%
43
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
$22,517,936,000
12.9%
49
Citibank, National Association
$7,807,000,000
4.5%
22
Western Alliance Bank
$7,640,467,000
4.4%
1
U.S. Bank National Association
$5,846,225,000
3.4%
28
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
$5,367,356,000
3.1%
12
BMO Bank National Association
$3,111,383,000
1.8%
23
East West Bank
$2,753,983,000
1.6%
4
Deposit concentration is 1,529 across 41 banks, which the 1995 Department of Justice bank merger screen calls moderately concentrated.
HHI = Σ (share %)² over 41 banks with deposits in the county = 25.0² + 21.1² + 14.7² + … (38 more) = 1,529
FDIC Summary of Deposits: deposits at every insured office as of June 30, annual; HHI is the sum of squared county deposit shares (DOJ 1995 bank merger screen: 1000 / 1800). USAspending: obligations by place of performance for the latest complete federal fiscal year (Oct 1 to Sep 30), what agencies committed, not what they paid out; recipients are legal entities. Per-job divides obligations by BLS QCEW covered employment.
unavailableretrieved 2026-10-02USAspending did not return a recipient, agency and NAICS breakdown for this county.
That is $0 per covered job, against 1,126,059 jobs in the 2026 Q1 QCEW quarter.
per job = FY2026 obligations $262,046 / 1.13 m covered jobs (BLS QCEW 2026 Q1, all ownerships) = $0
USAspending obligations are recorded where the work is performed, so a prime award performed here is counted here even when the recipient is headquartered elsewhere. Recipients are legal entities, never people.
currentretrieved 2026-10-02The company snapshot is a committed fixture, not a pull.
3 public companies file with the SEC from a business address here (Apple Inc., HP Inc, NVIDIA Corp). These rows are a committed fixture, not a pull: the snapshot has never been refreshed, so every financial fact is null and the list is not a complete census of filers in this county. The county's jobs mix maps to 10 GICS sectors, led by Communication Services.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
Item
Value
Distance
Apple Inc.
AAPL · Nasdaq · Information Technology · Cupertino, CA 95014
HP Inc
HPQ · NYSE · Information Technology · Palo Alto, CA 94304
NVIDIA Corp
NVDA · Nasdaq · Information Technology · Santa Clara, CA 95051
This is a committed fixture, not a pull: 3 filers are named and their financial facts are empty until the snapshot is refreshed. An absent company is not evidence that none is headquartered here.
Public filers whose registered business address with the SEC falls in this county, from a committed snapshot of EDGAR's company_tickers_exchange file. A position is the centroid of the address's ZIP code (Census ZCTA) or, where the snapshot says so, of its city: it is not a building. Legal entities only - no officer, insider or shareholder data is read, and Forms 3, 4 and 5 are excluded everywhere. Sector exposure is the county's BLS QCEW jobs mix bridged to GICS sectors by a convention documented in lib/companies/sectors.ts; a jobs mix is not a portfolio.
These are United States, single-gauge, single-state and port series. None of them is keyed to this county.
The national indicator set, unfiltered by place.
Series
Latest
As of
Change
Mississippi River at Memphis, stage · ft
not published
not published
Mississippi River at St. Louis, stage · ft
not published
not published
Ohio River at Louisville, stage · ft
16.50
2026-09-30
-11.7%
Missouri River at St. Joseph, stage · ft
not published
not published
Colorado River below Hoover Dam, flow (Hoover releases) · ft³/s
5,170.00
2026-02-05
-25.3%
Texas reservoirs, statewide percent full · %
71.30
2026-10-01
+0.1%
Laredo truck crossings, monthly · trucks
258,700.00
2026-08-01
-0.4%
Los Angeles + Long Beach container volume, annual · TEU
10,513,167.00
2023-01-01
-13.5%
Containerships waiting for a berth, all US ports · ships
6.00
2026-09-22
-14.3%
Shanghai to Los Angeles container rate · $ per 40 ft box
6,830.00
2026-08-01
+7.4%
US diesel retail price · $ per gallon
unavailable
not published
WTI crude oil, spot · $ per barrel
96.16
2026-09-29
-3.2%
30-year fixed mortgage rate · %
7.28
2026-10-01
+3.6%
Housing starts, annual rate · thousands of units
1,275.00
2026-08-01
-2.6%
Building permits, annual rate · thousands of units
1,403.00
2026-08-01
-2.1%
Case-Shiller US home price index · index, Jan 2000 = 100
337.31
2026-07-01
+0.1%
Unemployment rate · %
4.10
2026-08-01
+0.0%
US goods and services trade balance, monthly · $ millions
-88,576.00
2026-07-01
-24.4%
Retail sales excluding food services, monthly · $ millions
646,347.00
2026-08-01
+1.1%
The indicator registry has no county-keyed series and no geographic selection: every entry is national, a named gauge, a single state or a port. They are here as the backdrop the county's own numbers move against, and they are never this county's readings.
Santa Clara County, CA: 17 findings, 3 at a watch level and 14 noted
watchSanta Clara County, CA's price-to-rent ratio of 34.2 ranks 7th of 1,399 US counties, a watch level here: price-to-rent in the top tenth of US counties (position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
position among the counties that published both ZHVI and ZORI this month; not an official level
watchSanta Clara County, CA's price-to-rent ratio is 34.2, a watch level here: typical home value worth 25 or more years of typical rent (typical home value / (typical rent × 12), Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level). The previous published period is not in this table, so this is a standing level rather than a change.
Period 2026-08.
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test: priceToRent = 34.169595205219196 >= 25
typical home value / (typical rent × 12); Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month
typical home value / (typical rent × 12), Zillow ZHVI over ZORI, same month; convention chosen for this dashboard, not an official level
watchSanta Clara County, CA's years of wages of 6.8 scores 87 on the 0-to-100 scale across US counties but 39 across California counties, a gap of 48 points.
Period 2026-08.
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48 = |87 across US counties - 39 across California counties|
typical home value / (average weekly wage × 52); one average covered job, not a household
position among the entities that published this metric this period; not an official level
noteSanta Clara County, CA's average weekly wage was 8.4% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.
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+8.4 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published
noteSanta Clara County, CA's covered employment was 1.2% higher than the same quarter a year earlier in 2026 Q1, on BLS QCEW's published over-the-year change.
Period 2026 Q1.
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+1.2 % = BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change for 2026 Q1, as published
the newest QCEW file carries no year-earlier level, so no move from one level to another is printed
BLS QCEW over-the-year percent change, as published