San Jose, CA — income, home value, property tax, and sales tax.
In ZIP code 94089, near San Jose, median household income stands at $158,304 and per-capita income at $87,327, while the median home value is $387,800. That gap between earnings and home prices shapes how housing costs land here. The county-level effective property tax rate of 0.67% works out to roughly $2,598 annually on a home at that median value — a figure that stays contained against local incomes. Sales tax, meanwhile, runs 9.75% on purchases. The property tax itself sits comfortably within what these households earn, though the sales rate adds a steady cost to everyday spending.
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