Best neighborhoods in San Jose
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Ranked 1st best neighborhood in San Jose
"Green, Clean and Beautiful Area with a wonderful Neighborly..."
- sd5
Everything here is a positive except for the cost of renting/buying a home. One of the priciest neighborhood in San Jose. That is the only con. Other than that you'll love everything about Willow Glen...
Ranked 2nd best neighborhood in San Jose
"Beautful Blossom Valley"
- BethB3
Blossom Valley has the best of both worlds - tree lined streets, shopping, outdoor dining, close to everything, but without the traffic nightmares, small roads, and lack of parking seen in Los Gatos,...
Ranked 3rd best neighborhood in San Jose
"Rose Garden is super quaint and well-kept!"
- rebeccal20
The Rose Garden is definitely going to be an up-and-coming neighborhood in years to come. The houses directly circling the actual Rose Garden itself are extremely charming and give off a well-kept vi...
Ranked 4th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Nice neighborhood for families"
- SuS1
Housing is definitely cheaper here, fresh air, nature, beautiful mountain views , far away from pollution path. The schools are average and above and some 8 out of ten schools. Since housing is a lot...
Ranked 5th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Excellent place to grow up"
- all1
A very nice area. It's hard to know what to write because the other two reviewers covered it so well. Lived here from 1981 - 2011. I still visit once a month to see my parents.
However there is a s...
Ranked 6th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Picture perfect"
- bayareabound
Silver Creek Valley is a small, but affluent, country club-type neighborhood that stretches along US Route 101. In fact, it is fairly new and is considered one of the nicest areas in San Jose. As a...
Ranked 7th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Rapidly gentrifying, cute houses, strong neighborhood spirit"
- cr3
This place offers huge upside. Sure the houses are old and some areas are blighted. But when tear-downs are going for over half a million, you know people are on to something.
Several renovat...
Ranked 8th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Nice place to live"
- all1
Been here since 2011. Public transit isn't great, but if you live within the El Paseo De Saratoga Shopping Center area, public transit is a little better than average.
WSC has 4 crisscrossing bus lin...
Ranked 9th best neighborhood in San Jose
"vibrant downdown area, but still small town feel"
- Shinebox
I took my family to the tech museum of innovation in downtown san jose last winter to see a special exhibit of machines built after Da Vinci's designs. The exhibit was absolutely fascinating. The re...
Ranked 10th best neighborhood in San Jose
"A gem that could stand a bit more polishing"
- davidb65
I have been a resident of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood for more than 20 years. I have witnessed its greatest growth period, late '90s through early 2000s. Firstly, it's important to note that mos...
Ranked 11th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Best Bay Area Airport"
- StephSF
While the surrounding neighborhood is subject to noise and is fairly residential by comparison to the rest of the city, I stand by the fact, time and time again, that San Jose Airport is the best in S...
Ranked 12th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Foreclosures and modest San Jose living"
- bayareabound
Nestled at the base of the Diablo Range foothills, Alum Rock is a modest, but comfortable residential San Jose neighborhood. It spans about 1.2 square miles of flat, middle to upper middle-class terr...
Ranked 13th best neighborhood in San Jose
"A Mix of Good and Not So Good Neighborhoods"
- DirtyHarry
The southeast neighborhood of Edenvale—just a hop, skip and jump from Morgan Hill—is actually better thought of as a grouping of about a dozen suburban residential neighborhoods: Century-Pebbletree, C...
Ranked 14th best neighborhood in San Jose
"The slums of San Jose"
- bayareabound
Known as the East Valley or the East Side for its location, East San Jose is a diverse, intensely urbanized San Jose neighborhood. The area hosts a variety of lower-class living terrain, but is mostl...
Ranked 15th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Emphasis on lower-class"
- bayareabound
Bounded by US Route 87, US Route 101 and Highway 280 and West Capitol Expressway, Fairgrounds is both a major retain haven and an extremely underwhelming residential space. As a whole, there is nothi...
Ranked 16th best neighborhood in San Jose
"Nice Hilly Homes"
- DirtyHarry
The Berryessa area of San Jose is located in the far northeastern corner of the city, nestled up against the Contra Costa hills. This is a fairly middle class to upper middle class neighborhood, not...
