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Overall Rankings |
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Metro Area (out of 45): |
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Basic Housing: 9th |
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Healthy Housing: 8th |
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Central City (out of 44): |
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Basic Housing: 2nd |
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Healthy Housing: 2nd |
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Click here for the San Jose Data Table |
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Data source: 1998 American Housing Survey |
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Positive Findings: Compared to the national average, San Jose has fewer homes with broken plaster or peeling paint, signs of mice, heating equipment breakdown, room heaters without flues, and rooms without electrical outlets. Properties in the central city are less likely to have holes in floors, open holes or cracks in walls, flush toilet breakdown, sewage disposal breakdown, inadequate plumbing, and foundation problems when compared to the national average. Rental properties are less likely to lack complete plumbing or kitchen facilities when compared to the national average.
Areas for Improvement: Compared to the national average, San Jose-area homes have more problems with signs of rats, water supply stoppages, and roofing problems. Owner-occupied dwellings have more problems with open cracks or holes in walls and lack of complete plumbing when compared to the national average.
Community Information: The San Jose MSA is comprised of Santa Clara County, California. In 1998, the MSA included 565,900 occupied dwellings, 48.5% of which were located in the central city of San Jose. The housing stock of the MSA ranks among the youngest and most heavily rental of the cities surveyed. The percentage of post-1940 homes ranked 14th (6.0%) for the MSA and 6th (6.1%) for the central city. The median house age in the San Jose MSA was 1968. The percentage of rental units ranked 2nd (41.3%) for the MAS and 2nd (37.1%) for the central city. Poverty rates were not reported in the 1998 Metro survey.