Santa Clara County, California

Overview

Santa Clara County’s FY2025-26 adopted budget, as carried in the FY2026-27 adopted book, totals $13,043,340,365 in net all-funds expenditures against $12,606,174,958 in all-funds revenues. The Health System dominates spending at $7,125,878,095 — more than half the all-funds total — reflecting the county-operated health system. The General Fund adopted net expenditures of $5,433,338,251 are led by Finance and Government ($1,519,563,572) and Children, Seniors, and Families ($1,343,654,755); General Fund revenues of $5,116,548,775 are led by current property taxes of $2,136,921,804.

Source: County of Santa Clara, FY 2026-2027 Adopted Budget (FY2025-26 Adopted columns).

At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted

Source: County of Santa Clara, FY 2026-2027 Adopted Budget (FY2025-26 Adopted columns).

All funds, FY 2025-26 adopted

Net expenditures by policy area sum exactly to $13,043,340,365.

Revenues by policy area also sum exactly to $12,606,174,958: Finance and Government $3,624,804,649; Public Safety and Justice $551,846,099; Children, Seniors, and Families $1,173,127,438; Health System $6,770,263,464; Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation $486,133,308.

Expenditures by object: Salary and Benefits $5,963,052,089 + Services and Supplies $5,785,992,061 + Other Charges $315,941,357 + Fixed Assets $305,895,048 + Operating/Equity Transfers $960,496,891 + Reserves $339,577,550 = gross $13,670,954,996; less Expenditure Transfers $627,614,631 = net $13,043,340,365 (exact).

Revenues by type sum exactly to $12,606,174,958: State aid $971,999,861; Other Financing Sources $1,791,765,393; Licenses, Permits, Franchises $49,602,245; Charges for Services $5,801,832,276; Fines, Forfeitures, Penalties $52,089,603; Revenue from Use of Money/Property $144,290,176; Federal aid $801,016,276; Revenue from Other Government Agencies $111,815,053; Taxes — Other Than Current Property $113,109,511; Taxes — Current Property $2,613,774,843; Intergovernmental Revenues $154,879,721.

Source: County of Santa Clara, FY 2026-2027 Adopted Budget (FY2025-26 Adopted columns). Scope note: the book’s all-funds summary footnote states the data does not include Restricted Funds shown in Section 6.

General Fund, FY 2025-26 adopted

Net expenditures by policy area sum exactly to $5,433,338,251.

Expenditures by object: $2,499,413,974 + $2,318,442,731 + $94,691,787 + $1,034,283 + $756,396,089 + $283,563,400 = gross $5,953,542,264; less transfers $520,204,013 = net $5,433,338,251 (exact).

Revenues by policy area sum exactly to $5,116,548,775: Finance and Government $2,487,236,736; Public Safety and Justice $551,846,099; Children, Seniors, and Families $1,139,117,111; Health System $892,693,645; Housing, Land Use, Environment and Transportation $45,655,184.

Revenues by type also sum exactly to $5,116,548,775: State aid $838,968,498; Other Financing Sources $757,891,825; Licenses, Permits, Franchises $13,795,189; Charges for Services $146,034,353; Fines, Forfeitures, Penalties $50,700,303; Revenue from Use of Money/Property $111,149,410; Federal aid $773,519,421; Revenue from Other Government Agencies $51,731,053; Taxes — Other Than Current Property $97,187,727; Taxes — Current Property $2,136,921,804; Intergovernmental Revenues $138,649,192.

Gap disclosed: General Fund revenues ($5,116,548,775) sit $316,789,476 below General Fund net expenditures ($5,433,338,251) in these summary tables, which show no balancing fund-balance line. This page does not present that gap as a deficit claim; the reconciliation is simply not shown in the extracted summary.

Source: County of Santa Clara, FY 2026-2027 Adopted Budget (FY2025-26 Adopted columns).

Elected officials

The county is governed by a five-member elected Board of Supervisors. District assignments below are the published roster; the county’s government page confirms the five-member elected board structure.

Source: County of Santa Clara, Government (five-member elected Board of Supervisors); district roster as published for the budget year.

Board meetings

The Board of Supervisors holds its regular meetings on Tuesdays beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Board Chambers at the County Government Center, 70 West Hedding Street, San José, on a pre-determined schedule set by the Board — not every Tuesday.

County of Santa Clara Board of Supervisors meetings and agendas

No next meeting date is asserted here — see the official meetings page for the next scheduled date.

Livability — Santa Clara County

Santa Clara County scores 62.0 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #8 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 430.5 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 58.8, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.

Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.

Housing prices — Santa Clara County

County-level figures for Santa Clara County.

Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).

Public schools — Santa Clara County

Schools physically located in Santa Clara County.

409 public schools in 77 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.

Neighbor comparison

How Santa Clara County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.

GF figure: General Fund adopted net expenditures, FY 2025-26.

Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

San Benito County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published (reserves $7,090,000 + restricted $5,065,000 are capital-component reserves)

San Mateo County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 total fund balance $1,648,119,840 is prior-year, not FY 2025-26 ending

Santa Cruz County: Fund-balance % dashed: available fund balance $19,600,461 is beginning, not ending

Stanislaus County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($72,186,652 funding required is a gap, not ending)

Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.

— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).

Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).

Sources & notes

• Sources used: County of Santa Clara, FY 2026-2027 Adopted Budget book, FY2025-26 Adopted columns (all-funds and General Fund summary tables). Adopted budget book.
• Sum checks: all-funds expenditures by policy area exact; all-funds revenues by policy area and by type exact; all-funds expenditures by object exact after transfers; General Fund expenditures by policy area and by object exact after transfers; General Fund revenues by policy area and by type exact.
• Basis flags: figures are FY2025-26 Adopted columns carried in the FY2026-27 adopted book, not the FY2026-27 adopted year; all-funds summary excludes Restricted Funds shown in the book’s Section 6; the county’s June 2025 News Center headline of a $13.7 billion adopted budget differs from the summary-table net $13,043,340,365 (scope difference, disclosed, not forced); the General Fund revenue-to-expenditure gap of $316,789,476 has no balancing fund-balance line in the extracted summary (disclosed, not presented as a deficit claim).
• What is not claimed: no FY2026-27 adopted-year totals are shown; no department-level detail beyond the policy-area and object summaries is claimed.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified Santa Clara County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a county color.

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