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And San Jose moves up one...reflecting where the growth in the Bay Area is.Houston Enters Top Five In Nielsen Fall 2025 Market Rank Revisions
With the start of the Fall book last week, Nielsen Audio has released its revised market rankings. The biggest story
San Francisco descends by one in market size...now sixth.
I imagine Gilroy is expanding, too
Gilroy is in the "San Jose" single county market, which is a subset (part pf) the San Francisco market. Nielsen measures counties, not cities.
I didn’t mean in terms of Nielsen market, just development.
| 4,648,486 | 4,749,008 |
| 1,995,484 | 2,000,468 |
People with jobs here are leaving for the central valley and commuting back (or doing their jobs remotely, if possible/allowed), and those who don't have jobs here, who are retired, and who don't like the politics are heading out of the state. It's by no means a huge exodus, like numerous news articles have posited over the past 5 years (especially during the peak COVID years of 2020-2022) and the Bay Area's population is still fairly stable, but it's a large enough drop for it to register and cause some readjustments as the demographics change.
People have been leaving the Bay Area for the central valley for at least the last 10 years. If there was more housing being built faster to bring down the prices of existing rentals, and Prop 13 was repealed or state legislation was passed to encourage people who were moving out of state or into senior living, into selling and not just transferring their houses to their family members, maybe more people would/could stay in the Bay Area. I left because being able to buy a house was impossible.
