San Jose Neighborhoods Ranked by Price per Square Foot (2026)

San Jose has 114 neighborhood guides on our site. To see how they compare on price, we took the 2,483 San Jose houses, condos and townhomes that sold in the 180 days to October 27, 2026, placed the 2,482 with a map position and a living area on the map, and found the median price per square foot inside each guide’s outline. 2,479 of those sales landed inside at least one guide. Across the city, the median was $859 per square foot for all homes and $968 for houses.

The short answer

• Highest median price per square foot (guides with at least 10 sales): Lynbrook ($1,609, 10 sales), Rainbow ($1,583, 11 sales) and Calabazas ($1,581, 26 sales).
• Lowest: Spartan Keyes & Martha Gardens ($545, 11 sales) and Evergreen Estates & Meadowlands ($488, 74 sales).
• 107 of the 114 guides had 5 or more sales in the window, enough to rank here; the rest are listed below with their counts.
• Top to bottom, the highest-ranked guide sold for 3.3 times as much per square foot as the lowest-ranked one.

All homes, ranked

Guides with at least 5 sales, highest median price per square foot first. Each name opens its guide, with live listings, the last 12 months of sales and our notes on the streets and houses.

Houses only

Townhomes and condos often sell for a different price per foot than houses a block away, so here are the guides with at least 5 house sales, ranked on houses alone.

Fewer than 5 sales in the window, so not ranked: Alviso (1), Buena Vista (4), Kelley Park & Santee (4), Mayfair (4), Montevideo (4) and San Tomas Park & Westmont (4). No sales in the window: Baypointe & Zanker.

Reading it right

• A ranking summarizes recent sales; it isn’t a verdict on a neighborhood. Price per square foot moves with home size, age, lot, condition and the mix of homes that happened to sell, and a higher number says nothing about which neighborhood is right for you.
• Some guides overlap. A few guides share an edge, for example River Glen & The Willows and Downtown Willow Glen. A sale inside two outlines counts in both.
• Small samples swing. Each row shows its sale count; a guide with 6 sales can move a lot when one more home closes.
• Bigger homes often sell for less per foot, so compare guides with similar homes, or use the houses-only table.

Go deeper

The live Neighborhood Ranking recalculates these numbers from the MLS whenever you open it, with a shaded map and a budget finder. The Price per Sq Ft Map plots every sale, and the San Jose city guide links all 114 guides. To see where we’ve sold, our San Jose sales map shows the 372 sales since 2012 we can match to MLS records. Condos and townhomes have their own post: San Jose condo and townhome prices.

The San Jose data series: housing market by the numbers · where homes sell over asking · ten years of prices by neighborhood · condos and townhomes · house prices by bedrooms · houses under $1.5M · houses at $2.5M and up · the best month to sell · the most expensive streets · lots by neighborhood · our sales map

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A Property Nerd will pull the closest recent sales in your neighborhood and walk you through what they say about price. Call (408) 373-1660 or (650) 383-8606, or book a strategy call. Commissions are negotiable, and we offer bundled services, so ask us what’s included.