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{{Infobox settlement
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| name = Santa Clara County | settlement_type = [[List of counties in California|County]]
| other_name =
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| map_caption1 = Location in the state of California
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| coordinates = {{coord|37|14|N|121|43|W|type:adm2nd_region:US-CA_dim:50000|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[United States]]
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| subdivision_type2 = [[List of regions of California|Region]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[San Francisco Bay Area]]
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| established_title = [[Municipal corporation|Incorporated]] | established_date = February 18, 1850<ref name=csac>{{cite web |url= http://www.counties.org/general-information/chronology |title= Chronology |publisher= California State Association of Counties|access-date=February 6, 2015}}</ref>
| named_for = [[Mission Santa Clara de Asís]], [[Clare of Assisi|St. Clare of Assisi]]
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| seat_type = [[County seat]]<br>{{nobold|and largest city}} | seat = [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]
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| government_type = [[Council–manager government|Council–CEO]] | governing_body = [[Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors|Board of Supervisors]]
| leader_title1 = Board President
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| leader_title4 = [[Chief executive officer]]
| leader_name4 = James R. Williams, J.D.
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| unit_pref = US | area_total_sq_mi = 1304
| area_land_sq_mi = 1290
| area_water_sq_mi = 14
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| timezone = [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific]] | utc_offset = −8
| timezone_DST = [[Pacific Daylight Time]]
| utc_offset_DST = −7
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| area_code_type = [[North American Numbering Plan|Area codes]]
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'''Santa Clara County''', officially the '''County of Santa Clara''', is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of [[California]], with a population of 1,936,259 as of the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].<ref name="QF"/> Santa Clara County and neighboring [[San Benito County, California|San Benito County]] form the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara [[metropolitan statistical area]], which is part of the larger San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland [[combined statistical area]]. Santa Clara is the most populous county in the [[San Francisco Bay Area]] and in [[Northern California]].
The [[county seat]] and largest city with a population of 971,233 is [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], the [[List of United States cities by population|
Home to [[Silicon Valley]], Santa Clara County is an economic center for [[high technology]], and had the third-highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in the world as of 2015 behind [[Zürich]]
As of 2020, it has a median household income of
==Etymology==
[[File:USA-San Jose-70 West Hedding Street-East Wing-2.jpg|thumb|upright|Santa Clara County Government Center in central [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]]]
Santa Clara County is named for [[Mission Santa Clara de Asís|Mission Santa Clara]], which was established in 1777, and was in turn named for [[Clare of Assisi|Saint Clare of Assisi]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shortridge |first1=Charles Morris |title=Santa Clara County and Its Resources: Historical, Descriptive, Statistical : a Souvenir of the San Jose Mercury : 1895 |date=1895 |publisher=San Jose Mercury Pub. & Print. Company |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7hCAQAAMAAJ&q=%22named+for+the+mission+of+santa+clara%22&pg=PA16}}</ref>
==History==
{{main|History of Santa Clara County, California}}
[[File:1849 Oil Painting of Mission Santa Clara de Asis.png|thumb|[[Mission Santa Clara de Asís]] in 1849]]
Santa Clara County was one of the original [[list of counties in California|counties of California]], formed in 1850 at the time of statehood. The original inhabitants included the [[Ohlone]], residing on [[Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County)|Coyote Creek]] and [[Calaveras Creek (California)|Calaveras Creek]]. Part of the county's territory was given to [[Alameda County, California|Alameda County]] in 1853.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} Alameda County |url=http://www.acgov.org/about/#:~:text=Alameda%20County,%20California,%20was%20established,Contra%20Costa%20and%20Santa%20Clara. |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=www.acgov.org}}</ref>
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In 1882, Santa Clara County tried to levy taxes upon property of the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific Railroad]] within county boundaries. The result was the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] case of ''[[Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Co.|Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad]]'', [[Case citation|118 U.S. 394]] (1886), in which the court extended due-process rights to [[Juridical person|artificial legal entities]].
In the early 20th century, the area was promoted as the "Valley of the Heart's Delight" due to its natural beauty, including a significant number of [[orchard]]s.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyULAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA918 |page=918 |title=Automobiles: Good Roads |work=Sunset |volume=32 |year=1914}}</ref> The region was also memorably referred to as the "sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley" in Jack London's 1903 [[The Call of the Wild|Call of the Wild]].
The first major technology company to be based in the area was [[Hewlett-Packard]], founded in a garage in Palo Alto in 1939. [[IBM]] selected San Jose as its West Coast headquarters in 1943. [[Varian Associates]], [[Fairchild Semiconductor]], and other early innovators were in the county by the late 1940s and 1950s. The [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] had a large presence in the area and began giving large contracts to Silicon Valley electronics companies. The term "[[Silicon Valley]]" was coined in 1971. The trend accelerated in the 1980s and 1990s, and agriculture has since been nearly eliminated from the northern part of the county.
Santa Clara County is the headquarters for about 6500 high-technology companies, including many of the world's largest such companies, including [[AMD]], [[Nvidia]], [[Cisco Systems]], and [[Intel]], computer and consumer electronics companies [[Apple Inc.]] and Hewlett-Packard, and internet companies [[eBay]], [[Google]], and [[Yahoo!]]. Most of what is considered to be Silicon Valley is within the county, although some adjoining tech regions in [[San Mateo County, California|San Mateo]] (e.g., [[Facebook]]), [[Alameda County, California|Alameda]], and [[Santa Cruz County, California|Santa Cruz]] counties are also considered part of Silicon Valley. <!--This needs a source citation!:
In 2000, Santa Clara county sheriff Laurie Smith was elected as the first female sheriff in California history.--
==Geography==
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===Fauna===
[[File:Tule Elk - Merced National Wildlife Refuge Bill Leikam 12-03-2010.jpg|left |thumb
[[File:Tule Elk Basking Ridge Park, Santa Clara County Edgerton 2009-12-24.png
Both [[tule elk]] (''Cervus canadensis nannodes'') and [[pronghorn]] (''Antilocapra americana'') were historically [[native species|native]] to Santa Clara County. In June 1776, Lieutenant Commander Don [[José Joaquín Moraga]] led a group of soldiers and colonists from the Presidio of Monterey to establish [[Mission San Francisco de Asis]] and encountered both tule elk and pronghorn, and clearly distinguished these two species from deer.<ref name=DaneandPalou>{{cite journal |title= The Founding of the Presidio and Mission of Our Father Saint Francis |author1=George Ezra Dane |author2=Francisco Palóu |journal=California Historical Quarterly |date=June 1, 1935 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=102–110 |doi=10.2307/25160571 |jstor=25160571 }}</ref> The deer in California being [[California mule deer]] (''Odocoileus hemionus'').
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===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+'''Santa Clara County, California – Racial and ethnic composition'''<br><small>{{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(''NH = Non-Hispanic'')</small>
!Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2
!{{partial|Pop 2020}}<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2
!% 2010
!{{partial|% 2020}}
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] alone (NH)
|626,909
|style='background: #ffffe6; |555,708
|35.19%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |28.70%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] alone (NH)
|42,331
|style='background: #ffffe6; |42,148
|2.38%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.18%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] alone (NH)
|4,042
|style='background: #ffffe6; |3,240
|0.23%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.17%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] alone (NH)
|565,466
|style='background: #ffffe6; |753,399
|31.74%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |38.91%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] alone (NH)
|6,252
|style='background: #ffffe6; |5,945
|0.35%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.31%
|-
|[[Race and ethnicity in the United States census|
|3,877
|style='background: #ffffe6; |10,195
|0.22%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.53%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Mixed Race
|53,555
|style='background: #ffffe6; |78,267
|3.01%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |4.04%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|479,210
|style='background: #ffffe6; |487,357
|26.90%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |25.17%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''1,781,642'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''1,936,259'''
|'''100.00%'''
|style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%'''
|}
▲''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''
=== 2018 ===
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=== Cities by population and crime rates ===
{| class="wikitable collapsible
|-
! colspan="9" | Cities by population and crime rates
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The county's economy is heavily services-based. Technology, both hardware and software, dominates the service sector by value, but like any other county, Santa Clara has its share of retail and office support workers.
The San Jose/Sunnyvale/Santa Clara metropolitan region, comprising Santa Clara County and San Benito County, was ranked as the highest performing metropolitan area in the US in 2012, ahead of [[Austin, Texas]] and [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], according to the [[Milken Institute]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/01/16/santa-clara-county-economy-ranked-best-performing/ |first1=George |last1=Avalos |website=The Mercury News |title=Santa Clara County economy ranked best performing|date=January 16, 2013}}</ref> The GDP of the metro area reached $176.7 billion in 2011, or $94,587 per capita,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2013/pdf/gdp_metro0213.pdf |title=Economic growth continues across metropolitan areas in 2011 |website=U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis |access-date=July 31, 2013 |archive-date=July 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724045721/http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/regional/gdp_metro/2013/pdf/gdp_metro0213.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> roughly on par with [[Qatar]] in both total GDP and per capita (nominal).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnltransfer.asp?fID=2|title = National Accounts - Analysis of Main Aggregates (AMA) |website=National Accounts Section |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division}}</ref> GDP grew a strong 7.7% in 2011, and in contrast with most of California, GDP and per capita GDP (nominal) is well above 2007 (financial crisis) levels. Despite relative wealth vis a vis other regions nationally, a large underclass exists whose income is roughly equivalent to that elsewhere in the country, despite extreme land prices. The surge in metro GDP is highly correlated with home prices, which for average single-family homes passed $1 million ($1,017,528) in August 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/09/09/5191927/home-prices-in-santa-clara-county.html |date=September 9, 2013 |title=Home Prices in Santa Clara County Continued to Rise in August |agency=PRNewswire |website=Rock Hill Herald Online |access-date=September 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/
==Education==
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* [[File:Santa Clara County Route G7 CA.svg|25px]] [[County Route G7 (California)|County Route G7]]—Bloomfield Avenue
* [[File:Santa Clara County Route G8 CA.svg|25px]] [[County Route G8 (California)|County Route G8]]—Almaden Expressway
* [[File:Santa Clara County Route G9 CA.svg|25px]] [[County Route G9 (California)|County Route G9]]
* [[File:Santa Clara County Route G10 CA.svg|25px]] [[County Route G10 (California)|County Route G10]]—Blossom Hill Road
* [[File:Santa Clara County Route G21 CA.svg|25px]] [[County Route G21 (California)|County Route G21]]—Capitol Expressway
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