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Town in California, United States

Los Gatos

$2.4MMedian Home
334Sunny Days/yr
View on Map· Pop. 33k· Elev. 344 ftWikipedia

Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population is 32,529 according to the 2020 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area just southwest of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Los Gatos is part of Silicon Valley, with several high technology companies maintaining a presence there. Netflix, the streaming service and content creator, is headquartered in Los Gatos and has developed a large presence in the area.Wikipedia

About the RegionCalifornia

California contains multitudes in a way that makes any single characterization misleading. The Bay Area and Los Angeles operate as global city-states, with housing markets, income levels, and cultural gravity that put them in direct competition with London and Tokyo rather than with other American metros. Both have lost net domestic migrants to lower-cost states for most of the last decade — primarily to Texas, Arizona, and Nevada — though both also continue to be net draws for international migration and maintain labor markets of extraordinary depth and diversity.

But California's geography is vast. The Central Valley offers costs of living that rival the Midwest with driving distance to the Sierra Nevada; the North Coast is one of the most beautiful and least-crowded stretches of American coastline; and the smaller cities of the inland valleys represent genuinely different lifestyle profiles. For remote workers who can absorb the state income tax and housing cost, the combination of climate diversity, outdoor access, and cultural institution density remains difficult to replicate anywhere in the world.

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Current Conditions

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Cost of Living

Housing
$4k/mo
Median Rent
$2.4M
Median Home Price
Rent burden23% of income
Household Income
$198k
Median annual
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Livability

School Rating
8.9/10
Internet
Fiber
15%
Cable
87%
address availability
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Climate

Sunshine
334
sunny days per year
92% of the year
Comfort Score
70/100
Good
Rainfall
20"
inches per year
Air Quality
37
Good AQI
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Demographics

Population33k
Altitude344 ftabove sea level
Median Age46 yrs
College Educated75%bachelor's or higher
Work From Home27%of workforce
Poverty Rate4%

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