Milpitas – #1 city with the most cars per house, population 50,000+
Top 101 cities with the most cars per house, population 50,000+
1. Milpitas, CA (housing, pop. 62,698): 16.9% 4 or more vehicles
2. Baldwin Park, CA (housing, pop. 75,837): 16.1% 4 or more vehicles
3. Lynwood, CA (housing, pop. 69,845): 14.2% 4 or more vehicles
4. Cerritos, CA (housing, pop. 51,488): 14.1% 4 or more vehicles
5. Union City, CA (housing, pop. 66,869): 14.0% 4 or more vehicles
6. Enumclaw Plateau, WA (housing, pop. 53,853): 13.6% 4 or more vehicles
7. Chino, CA (housing, pop. 67,168): 13.5% 4 or more vehicles
8. Santa Ana, CA (housing, pop. 337,977): 13.4% 4 or more vehicles
9. West Jordan, UT (housing, pop. 68,336): 13.3% 4 or more vehicles
10. South Davis, UT (housing, pop. 89,128): 13.1% 4 or more vehicles
Thanks to Burbed reader Jeff for this find.
All Bay Area cities are special – even if they’re borderline Bay Area. Congrats to Milpitas for being #1!
It was a lot of work I’m sure, but this was well worth it.
November 11th, 2007 at 9:56 am
You totally called it. http://www.burbed.com/2007/09/27/700k-house-comes-with-red-car-blocking-driveway/
November 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Oh yeah, those houses with a veritable parking lot around them, 3 cars on the front lawn, etc. That just oozes success!
November 11th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
You need 4 cars because you need at least 4 incomes to be able to pay the mortgage.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
4 is the minimum to enter this elite club, I’ve seen 6 or 8 ……
Along Maude and Fair Oaks in Sunnyvale are good places to spot these up-and-comers. And get REALLY freaking good temales too!
November 12th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Hmmm, Milpitas ranks #1. And #2 is Baldwin Park. I lived couple of years LA area. I have some idea about Baldwin Park, which is located north east side of LA county. It’s mainly an industrial city (and a race track) with pockets of low income residential areas. Mainly full of hourly job workers who commute other (better) parts of LA area everyday to make living. No wonder it ranks #2 for car per house. Because families share houses there to pay for rents/mortgages. And Santa Ana. That’s the worst part of Orange county. In fact snobbish south Orange county (Irvine to down south) people do not consider Santa Ana as part of Orange County. They say: “that’s more of a LA kind of place”.
So Milpitas got some nice friends in this ranking-list.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I confess to having little knowledge about SoCal.
I thought all of Orange County was kind of snobish? No?
November 12th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
When we hear all the stories (snobbish, gated community etc), those are all about Irvine at the north (and part of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Tustin) to San Clemente at down south. If you live in cities like Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Anaheim, Fullerton, atleast your neighbor won’t complain for your dusty car and ask you to get a car-wash. Some part of Santa Ana is very poor (and more car per house) and I doubt their cars get car-wash.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
If you look at the list, Santa Ana is by far the largest city in the top 10. This means San Jose has to work even harder to pick up the slack.