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A town of 16,911.
South San Jose Hills grades C overall, 401st among California's 841 graded towns, with clear strengths and some subjects that lag. It is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 86% of U.S. towns. On the other side, FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 91% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. South San Jose Hills’ January low is 46°F, where California’s towns sit at 40°F and U.S. towns at 22°F. The typical home is worth about $544K, 5.7 years of the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income.
Where South San Jose Hills beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
Where South San Jose Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far South San Jose Hills is from typical.
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Census counts: 12,386 in 1970, 19,855 in 2020. The archive holds 6 old photos and papers going back to 2026 and 7 maps from 1894 on.
Explore the history →Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around South San Jose Hills. Close and well known come first.
Big draw14 mi Theme parkDisneyland17.3M visitors a year
Big draw25 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw26 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw22 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw13 mi Theme parkKnott's Berry Farm4.5M visitors a year
Big draw22 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial ColiseumDisneyland: HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0 · SoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0 · Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Kriddl, CC0 · Knott's Berry Farm: Phydend at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: CanonStarGal, CC BY-SA 4.0
South San Jose Hills is unincorporated, so Los Angeles County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Ordered by what stands out in South San Jose Hills.
South San Jose Hills has milder winter nights than nearly all U.S. towns and sends most of its workers to Los Angeles and beyond, but it trails even towns with similar incomes on health.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Its public schools are run by the Rowland Unified school district. Two of its 9 schools are below, each with why it’s listed. The largest public high school is Nogales High, with 1,535 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rorimer ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–6 | Grades K–6 | 405 | – |
| Nogales HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 1,535 | B |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
South San Jose Hills has 1,373 jobs for its 8,166 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out.
2.4% of workers work from home in South San Jose Hills. Most working residents leave South San Jose Hills for work: only 2% work in town. South San Jose Hills’ average trip to work is 29 minutes.
| South San Jose Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 2.4% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.8% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Average trip to work | 29 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
January nights average 45.7°, milder than in 97% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 88.2°.
South San Jose Hills has warm winters and warm summers, with very little rain. Snow is almost unheard of.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Against the 9,322 U.S. towns with household incomes like South San Jose Hills’s, it is less healthy than 82%, so it trails even them.
South San Jose Hills beats the California average on 5 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 15. 44% of South San Jose Hills adults feel lonely.
| South San Jose Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 44% | 36% | 33% |
| No health insurance, 18–64 (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 9% | 8.1% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 68% | 72% | 79% |
| What stands out | South San Jose Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 4% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with arthritis | 17.3% | 20.8% |
| More uninsured adults | 20.2% | 10.6% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
0.5 miles of trail in 1 park or preserve. The trail density in South San Jose Hills is 0.3 miles per square mile.
| South San Jose Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 0.3 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.8% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sunshine Park | 0.5 mi | 7 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
43 within 15 miles of the center of South San Jose Hills
About 8 of every 100 South San Jose Hills residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
Census-designated place in California, United States
South San Jose Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 19,855 at the 2020 census, down from 20,551 at the 2010 census.
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2 towns share a border with South San Jose Hills.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South San Jose Hills | #401 | C | D | — | B+ | C+ |
| West Covina | #387 | C | D− | C | B+ | B+ |
| Industry | — | — | — | — | — | — |
South San Jose Hills reports no FBI crime data of its own. Industry isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare South San Jose Hills with a neighbor →
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
South San Jose Hills grades C overall, better than 29% of U.S. towns and #401 of 841 in California. It grades C+ for health and B+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Yes. The typical home is worth about $544,000, 29% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.
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