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San Jose
Mayor Matt Mahan · Democratic · in office since Jan. 1, 2023
The Executive Summary
Mayor Matt Mahan (D) has led San Jose since Jan. 2023; San Jose is not yet scored — a mayor's record opens only after enough years in office for the lagged data to say anything fair; the card below says exactly where each metric stands.
| Unemployment 4.4% (2025) | +0.17σ* · +2.33%/yr vs peers +5.13%/yr · 2024–2025 (2 pts) |
| Median household income $148,226 (2024 · constant 2024 $) | Not yet scored |
| Poverty rate 8.1% (2024) | Not yet scored |
| Government form | Council-manager |
San Jose has 1 of 3 categories scored — an overall rating needs all 3, and the rest do not yet have enough years inside Matt Mahan's scoring window.
Sources: unemployment — BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · median household income — Census ACS 1-year, CPI-U deflated · poverty rate — Census ACS 1-year (B17001). Unemployment runs through 2025; income and poverty through 2024. The 2025 unemployment point is an eleven-month average — October 2025 was never collected during the federal shutdown — and it is included and flagged here under the same rule the state pages apply to the same statistic (one statistic, one rulebook, as of v2.6; through v2.5 city pages excluded it instead, and the changelog says so).
Scored on economic outcomes only — unemployment, real median income and poverty. Crime, housing and health are not yet included, so this is a narrower measure than a governor’s. *Thin data — a trend fitted through fewer than 3 points is a line between dots, not a track record; percentage-per-year figures on those rows swing hard on small changes. Government form follows standard reference classifications and was not verified city by city. Methodology
San Jose sits in CA, whose governor Gavin Newsom holds a scored statewide record (No. 20 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.