The Bay Area: The Sweetest Place in the Country, Literally
Posted by Jessie Woodyard on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 @ 08:56 AM
The online mecca for residential real estate data, Zillow, produces a list of the Best Cities to Trick or Treat. This year, San Francisco is #1 in the country trailed by San Jose at #6 - Bay Area, you should be proud.
Zillow has produced the list for three years now and for three years straight San Francisco has prevailed. It makes sense though, based on Zillow’s methodology, San Francisco has it all when it comes to best places on All Hallow’s Eve to hit the candy jackpot. San Francisco has the least amount of walking (key for those trying to hit as many houses as humanly possible like most people under the age of 10) and with the least safety risks (key to the parents of the candy-ravenous ghosts and goblins) .
Here are the stats:
San Francisco
Median Home Value: $660,494
Walk Score: 84.9
The Bay Area can continue its bragging by heading South to San Jose. Coming into sixth place, San Jose holds it own. A high medium home value and decent walk score helped set it squarely at the top of the list of 20 cities. Unfortunately though, in 2010 San Jose actually ranked #4. The downward bump was most likely due to the spike in crime the city has experienced this year as well as a contributing factor of declining values in real estate.
Here are the stats:
San Jose
Median Home Value: $493,721
Walk Score: 54.5
So all you Trick or Treaters out there, get those goodies bags ready and hit the streets. Here is the breakdown by neighborhood for San Francisco and San Jose.
