Map: See How Campbell Home Ownership Rates Compare to Nearby Cities

Click on the cities for home ownership details. Red cities have the lowest rates of home ownership. Greener cities have the highest. Yellow & orange fall between.

Proponents of home ownership argue that it ties people more closely to a community and makes people more invested in taking care of a neighborhood.  

There are many factors that determine how much of a community is made up of homeowners vs. renters - age of the community, income, whether a town is mostly single-family housing or multi-family housing. 

The Patch map above shows the percentage of the town's population that owns a home, based on figures from the 2010 census.  A full window view of the Bay Area map is available here. Click each city for details. 

Campbell has a homeownership rate of 53.6 percent, lower than neighboring Los Gatos (68.5 percent) and Cupertino (62.9 percent), and far lower than Monte Sereno (90.7 percent) and Saratoga (88.1 percent). Los Altos Hills tops Silicon Valley with a 91 percent home ownership, where the occupants of the dwelling are the owners.

Nearby cities with significantly lower homeownership rates include Santa Cruz at 44.3 percent and Mountain View at 43.4 percent.  San Francisco checks in at 42 percent.

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Do you think a high level of home ownership is important in a community? Share your views with us in the comments section.

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