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Cupertino (/ˌkuːpərˈtiːnoʊ/ KOOP-ər-TEEN-oh) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 60,381 as of the 2020 census. The city is widely known for being the home of Apple Inc., headquartered within the city at Apple Park.
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Coordinates: 37°19′23″N 122°01′55″W / 37.32306°N 122.03194°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Santa Clara |
Region | San Francisco Bay Area |
Incorporated | October 10, 1955 |
Named for | Arroyo San José de Cupertino Saint Joseph of Cupertino |
Government | |
• Type | Council–manager |
• Body | City council |
• Mayor | Liang Chao |
• Vice Mayor | Kitty Moore |
Area | |
• Total | 11.33 sq mi (29.34 km2) |
• Land | 11.33 sq mi (29.34 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) 0.01% |
Elevation | 236 ft (72 m) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 60,381 |
• Density | 5,300/sq mi (2,100/km2) |
Time zone | UTC−8 (Pacific) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
ZIP Codes | 95014, 95015 |
Area codes | 408/669 |
FIPS code | 06-17610 |
GNIS feature IDs | 277496, 2410278 |
Website | cupertino |
Named for a local creek by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's cartographer bearing the name of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Cupertino was officially incorporated in 1955, though it saw economic activity in the early 19th century. The area was originally an agricultural community producing prunes, apricots and cherries, with a winery joining the ranks by the 19th century. Cupertino grew immensely during the 1950s due to the suburban housing boom experienced after the Second World War, concurring with the earliest roots of Silicon Valley developing near Cupertino. By the 1960s, office parks were being built and technology companies were setting up shop in the city, most notably Apple and Hewlett-Packard.
Today, Cupertino remains a cornerstone of Silicon Valley with its residents making a median household income of just under $200,000 a year. The economy is dominated by technology companies, both large ones like Apple, as well as medium-sized companies and various Silicon Valley startups.
Etymology
Cupertino was named after Arroyo San José de Cupertino (now Stevens Creek). The creek had been named by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza's cartographer, who named it after Saint Joseph of Cupertino. The name Cupertino first became widely used when John T. Doyle, a San Francisco lawyer, and historian, named his winery on McClellan Road Cupertino. After the turn of the 20th century, Cupertino displaced the former name for the region, which was West Side.
History
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In the 19th century, Cupertino was a small rural village at the crossroads of Stevens Creek Road and Saratoga-Mountain View Road (also known locally as Highway 9; later Saratoga–Sunnyvale Road, and then renamed to De Anza Boulevard within Cupertino city limits). For decades, the intersection was dominated on the southeast corner by the R. Cali Brothers Feed Mill, which is replaced today with the Cali Mill Plaza and City Hall. Back then, it was known as the West Side and was part of Fremont Township. The primary economic activity was fruit agriculture. Almost all of the land within Cupertino's present-day boundaries was covered by prune, plum, apricot, and cherry orchards. A winery on Montebello Ridge overlooking the Cupertino valley region was also in operation by the late 19th century.
Soon railroads, electric railways, and dirt roads traversed the West Side farmlands. Monta Vista, Cupertino's first housing tract, was developed in the mid-20th century as a result of the electric railway's construction.
After World War II, a population and suburban housing boom dramatically shifted the demographics and economy of the Santa Clara Valley, as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" was beginning to transform into "Silicon Valley". In 1954, a rancher, Norman Nathanson, the Cupertino-Monta Vista Improvement Association, and the Fact Finding Committee, began a drive for incorporation. On September 27, 1955, voters approved the incorporation of the city of Cupertino (225 voted "yes" and 183 voted "no"). Cupertino officially became Santa Clara County's 13th city on October 10, 1955.
A major milestone in Cupertino's development was the creation by some of the city's largest landowners of VALLCO Business and Industrial Park in the early 1960s. Of the 25 property owners, 17 decided to pool their land to form VALLCO Park, 6 sold to Varian Associates (property later sold to Hewlett-Packard), and two opted for transplanting to farms elsewhere. The name VALLCO was derived from the names of the principal developers: Varian Associates and the Leonard, Lester, Craft, and Orlando families. A neighborhood outdoor shopping center and, much later, the enclosed Vallco Fashion Park, briefly renamed Cupertino Square, were also developed.
De Anza College opened in 1967. The college, named for Juan Bautista De Anza, occupies a 112-acre (0.45 km2) site that was the location of a winery built at the turn of the 20th century, called Beaulieu by its owners, Charles and Ella Baldwin. Their mansion has now become the California History Center. De Anza College had 16,335 students as of 2022.
By the 1980s, Apple Inc. and Hewlett-Packard were the primary technology companies with major presences in Cupertino, with
Housing developments were rapidly constructed in the following years as developers created neighborhoods, including Fairgrove, Garden Gate, Monta Vista, Seven Springs, and other developments. The city is known for its high real estate prices.[citation needed]
2010 saw HP consolidate its Bay Area workforce in its hometown of Palo Alto, and the company proceeded to close its campus within Cupertino. The city estimated that the closure of the campus would lead to 3,000 to 3,500 employees being relocated. Apple eventually bought the campus site from HP for an undisclosed price and prepared to use the land to build Apple Park.
Geography
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Cupertino is located at 37°19′23″N 122°01′55″W / 37.32306°N 122.03194°W (37.3229978, −122.0321823), at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. The eastern part of the city, located in the Santa Clara Valley, is flat, while the western part of the city slopes into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Cupertino borders San Jose and Santa Clara to the east, Saratoga to the south, Sunnyvale and Los Altos to the north, and Loyola to the northwest.
Several streams run through Cupertino on their way to south San Francisco Bay, including (from north to south): Permanente Creek, Stevens Creek, San Tomas Aquino Creek and its Smith Creek, the Regnart Creek and Prospect Creek tributaries of Calabazas Creek, and Saratoga Creek.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.3 square miles (29 km2), 99.99% of it land and 0.01% of it water.
Climate
Cupertino has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb under the Köppen climate classification system), with warm to hot, dry summers and cool, wet winters.
Climate data for Cupertino, California | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 79 (26) | 89 (32) | 89 (32) | 94 (34) | 104 (40) | 108 (42) | 111 (44) | 103 (39) | 109 (43) | 100 (38) | 96 (36) | 87 (31) | 111 (44) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 58.4 (14.7) | 62.2 (16.8) | 65.7 (18.7) | 70 (21) | 74.3 (23.5) | 79.1 (26.2) | 82 (28) | 81.7 (27.6) | 81.2 (27.3) | 75.5 (24.2) | 66.8 (19.3) | 59 (15) | 71.3 (21.9) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 48.3 (9.1) | 51.6 (10.9) | 54 (12) | 57 (14) | 60.7 (15.9) | 64.7 (18.2) | 67.3 (19.6) | 67 (19) | 65.9 (18.8) | 61.2 (16.2) | 54.3 (12.4) | 48.9 (9.4) | 58.4 (14.6) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 38.2 (3.4) | 41.1 (5.1) | 42.4 (5.8) | 43.9 (6.6) | 47.1 (8.4) | 50.2 (10.1) | 52.6 (11.4) | 52.4 (11.3) | 50.6 (10.3) | 47 (8) | 41.8 (5.4) | 38.8 (3.8) | 45.5 (7.5) |
Record low °F (°C) | 19 (−7) | 23 (−5) | 28 (−2) | 29 (−2) | 32 (0) | 31 (−1) | 38 (3) | 39 (4) | 36 (2) | 30 (−1) | 24 (−4) | 20 (−7) | 19 (−7) |
Average rainfall inches (cm) | 3 (7.6) | 2.6 (6.6) | 2.3 (5.8) | 1 (2.5) | 0.4 (1.0) | 0.1 (0.25) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0.3 (0.76) | 0.6 (1.5) | 1.5 (3.8) | 2.7 (6.9) | 14.5 (36.71) |
Average rainy days | 10 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 56 |
Source: Monthly- All Data for Cupertino- Santa Clara University, California |
Neighborhoods
Cupertino is made up of numerous subdivisions, most of them developed since the 1960s. Most of Cupertino's contemporary properties were developed around 1960. The area between Stevens Creek Boulevard, Miller Avenue, Bollinger Road, and Lawrence Expressway contains 224 Eichler homes, built during the 1950s. Two of the newest parts of Cupertino are among its oldest housing tracts. Monta Vista and Rancho Rinconada were developed outside of the city's boundaries in the 1950s and before. Rancho Rinconada was annexed in 1999 and the last part of Monta Vista was annexed in 2004. The neighborhood of Seven Springs is at the southwestern tip of Cupertino and was developed in the late 1980s. The newest and most northwestern neighborhood, Oak Valley, borders Rancho San Antonio Park and was developed around the turn of the millennium.
Cupertino is known for its high housing prices as the majority of residential properties are multimillion-dollar homes as of the priciest housing market peak of 2022, with the entry-point into a single-family home at around 2 million dollars in the Cupertino HS area, and the entry point at around 2.6 million dollars in the Monta Vista HS area. Many smaller homes start from the high $2 millions, mid-size homes start from the mid $3 millions, and larger executive homes start from mid $4 millions and can go up to as much as $7 million, as of the 2022 peak. However, townhouses and condos with similar square footage are relatively less expensive, owing mainly to negligible lot sizes and the many common walls and areas.
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1960 | 3,664 | — | |
1970 | 17,895 | 388.4% | |
1980 | 34,297 | 91.7% | |
1990 | 40,263 | 17.4% | |
2000 | 50,546 | 25.5% | |
2010 | 58,302 | 15.3% | |
2020 | 60,381 | 3.6% | |
U.S. Decennial Census |
63 percent of Cupertino's population was of Asian ancestry in 2010, compared to 32 percent in Santa Clara County overall.Money's Best Places to Live, "America's best small towns", ranked Cupertino as #27 in 2012, the second highest in California. In 2014, Movoto Real Estate ranked Cupertino the seventh "happiest" suburb in the United States, ranking highly in the categories of income, safety, marriage, and education.
In 2015, Forbes ranked Cupertino as one of the most educated places in the U.S. in respect to the percentage of high school and college graduates.
2010
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The 2010 United States Census reported that Cupertino had a population of 58,302. The population density was 5,179.1 inhabitants per square mile (1,999.7/km2). The racial makeup of Cupertino was 18,270 (31.3%) White, 344 (0.6%) Black American, 117 (0.2%) Native American, 36,895 (63.3%) Asian (28.1% Chinese, 22.6% Indian, 4.6% Korean, 3.3% Japanese, 1.3% Vietnamese), 54 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 670 (1.1%) from other races, and 1,952 (3.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic of any race were 2,113 persons (3.6%); 2.4% of Cupertino's population is of Mexican ancestry.
The census reported that 57,965 people (99.4% of the population) lived in households, 61 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 276 (0.5%) were institutionalized.
There were 20,181 households, out of which 9,539 (47.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 13,802 (68.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,393 (6.9%) had a female householder with no husband present, 581 (2.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 378 (1.9%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 89 (0.4%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 3,544 households (17.6%) were made up of individuals, and 1,612 (8.0%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.87. There were 15,776 families (78.2% of all households); the average family size was 3.28.
The population was spread out, with 16,075 people (27.6%) under the age of 18, 3,281 people (5.6%) aged 18 to 24, 15,621 people (26.8%) aged 25 to 44, 16,044 people (27.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 7,281 people (12.5%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males.
There were 21,027 housing units at an average density of 1,867.9 per square mile (721.2/km2), of which 12,627 (62.6%) were owner-occupied, and 7,554 (37.4%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.8%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.7%. 36,464 people (62.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied dwelling units and 21,501 people (36.9%) lived in rental dwelling units.
Economy
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Cupertino is one of many cities that claim to be the "heart" of Silicon Valley, as many semiconductor and computer companies were founded there and in the surrounding areas. The new worldwide headquarters for Apple Inc. is located there in a modern circular complex. It is a 150-acre (610,000 m2) campus between Interstate 280, N Wolfe Rd, E Homestead Rd and along Tantau Ave one mile east of the old campus. The nine properties (50-acre (0.2 km2)) south of Pruneridge Avenue were bought in 2006, the property (100-acre (0.4 km2) north of it in 2010 (from Hewlett-Packard).
On June 7, 2011, Steve Jobs gave a presentation to Cupertino City Council, detailing the architectural design of the new building and its environs. The campus houses 13,000 employees in one central four-story circular building surrounded by extensive landscaping, with parking mainly underground and the rest centralized in a parking structure.
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In 2002, Cupertino had a labor force of 25,780 with an unemployment rate of 4.5%. The unemployment rate for Santa Clara County as a whole was 8.4%.
One of the major employers in the area is the aggregate rock quarry and cement plant in the foothills to the west of Cupertino, the Permanente Quarry. Owned and operated by Lehigh Southwest Cement, it was founded by Henry J. Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939. It provided the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam.[citation needed] It supplied the 6 million barrels (950,000 m3) of cement over a nine-mile (14 km)-long conveyor system.[failed verification][citation needed] The cement plant is the sole reason for the railroad line that runs through the city.
Top employers
According to the city's 2020–21 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:
# | Employer |
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1 | Apple |
2 | Cupertino Union School District |
3 | Corinthian International Parking Services |
4 | Synoptic Systems Inc. |
5 | De Anza Community College District |
6 | Target Stores, Inc. |
7 | Fremont Union High School District |
8 | Forum Healthcare Center |
9 | Whole Foods Market |
10 | Mobileum, Inc. |
Government
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Cupertino was incorporated in 1955. The highest body in the city government – the City Council – is made up of five members who serve overlapping, four-year terms. The council elects the mayor and vice-mayor for a term of one year. The city does not have its own charter. Instead, it is a General Law city, which follows provisions and requirements for cities established by the state of California.
Cupertino contracts with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and the Santa Clara County Fire Department for public safety services. The Cupertino Library is part of the Santa Clara County Library System.
In the California State Legislature, Cupertino is in the 15th Senate District, represented by Democrat Dave Cortese, and in the 26th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Patrick Ahrens.
In the United States House of Representatives, Cupertino is in California's 17th congressional district, represented by Democrat Ro Khanna.
Education
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Santa Clara County Library operates the Cupertino Library, which is located adjacent to city hall. The library, which was redesigned and rebuilt in 2004, is the busiest branch in the Santa Clara County Library system, with about 3 million items circulated annually.
The San Francisco Japanese School, a weekend educational program for Japanese citizen children living abroad, holds classes at J.F. Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino, as well as Harker, a private school.
Primary and secondary
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Cupertino is known for its high-achieving primary and secondary school students. For example, Murdock-Portal Elementary and Faria Elementary School are tied for highest score for elementary public school in the state of California, per California 2013 API test scores. As of 2013, John F. Kennedy Middle School is the best public middle school in the state, and Lawson Middle School is the third best in the state. Furthermore, Monta Vista High School is ranked number 23 out of all the public high schools in the nation.
Primary (K-8) public schools are organized into the Cupertino Union School District, while the Fremont Union High School District is responsible for high school students (except for a tiny portion of the northeast corner of the city which belongs to the Santa Clara Unified School District).Cupertino High School and its feeder school, Hyde Middle School, are located in the Rancho Rinconada section of Cupertino, while Monta Vista High School and its feeder, Kennedy Middle School, are in the Monta Vista neighborhood in the western half of Cupertino. Lawson Middle School feeds mostly Cupertino and Monta Vista High. In addition, Homestead High School is located in the northwestern portion of Cupertino, along the city border with neighboring Sunnyvale.
Colleges and universities
Cupertino is home to De Anza College, one of the two community colleges in the Foothill–De Anza Community College District. The University of San Francisco has satellite campuses in Cupertino.[citation needed]
Transportation
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The city is served by an interconnected road system. Two freeways, State Route 85 and Interstate 280, intersect in Cupertino, with multi-lane boulevards with landscaped medians and traffic lights at all major intersections. Almost all streets have sidewalks; the few exceptions are in unincorporated pockets at the city's edges, which are maintained directly by Santa Clara County.
Cupertino has bike lanes on many of its boulevards, and has an extension of the Stevens Creek Trail through McClellan Ranch Park and Blackberry Farm. Bicycle traffic is heavy usually around morning and noon times around DeAnza College. The VTA has buses running through Cupertino at major arteries. Cupertino's main streets are well lit, while a few older roads towards the Monta Vista High School area are a little dim.
Dedicated on April 30, 2009, Cupertino opened the Mary Avenue Bicycle Footbridge, the first cable-stayed bicycle-pedestrian bridge over a California freeway. This bridge connects the north and the south sections of the Stevens Creek Trail. The cost of the bridge project was $14,800,000.
The Union Pacific Railroad operates a branch line track up to the Lehigh Permanente Cement Plant from the mainline at San Jose Diridon Station. It is, however, strictly for the quarry and very little to no non-quarry traffic runs there.
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There is no commuter rail or light rail service in the city. Caltrain commuter rail runs through the cities to the north and east, and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)'s Mountain View – Winchester light rail line runs to Campbell, California to the south. Bus service is also provided by VTA, and the prospect of a twenty-four-hour bus service on Stevens Creek Boulevard is being studied. Cupertino is also served by VTA's 523 Rapid bus, which runs from northern Sunnyvale and the Caltrain station to Downtown San Jose with limited stops and signal priority.
Cupertino is landlocked and relies on the Port of Oakland for most oceangoing freight.
Passenger and cargo air transportation is available at San Jose International Airport in San Jose. The closest general aviation airport is in Palo Alto; it is known as Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County.
The City of Cupertino partnered with Via Transportation in October 2019 to launch a new on-demand public transportation network. Unlike traditional bus networks that rely on routes and schedules, the new microtransit service called Via allows riders to hail a shared ride on demand through a smartphone app. The transit network serves the entire City of Cupertino with a satellite zone surrounding the Sunnyvale Caltrain station for commuters.
Notable people
- Matt Arya – soccer player
- Matthew Axelson – Navy SEAL
- Kris Bubic – baseball player
- Redmond Burke – pediatric heart surgeon
- Raymond Carver – writer and poet
- Aaron Eckhart – actor
- Scott Erickson – baseball player
- Paul Fong – California politician
- Clark Glasson – golf course architect
- Adyashanti – spiritual teacher
- Mark Tapio Kines – film director, writer, producer
- Steve Jobs – co-founder of Apple Inc.
- David Kramer – soccer player
- Ronnie Lott – College and Pro Football Hall of Famer
- Bryan Mantia – drummer
- Kurt Rambis – basketball player and coach
- Josiah Little Pickard – school administrator
- Adam Peters – NFL executive
- Daniel Puder – mixed martial arts fighter
- Fred Sablan – musician
- Charlie Tagawa – Japanese-American musician
- Khyri Thomas – basketball player
- Savita Vaidhyanathan – politician
- Elizabeth Lowe Watson – leader in the California Equal Suffrage Association
- Sandy Wihtol – baseball player
- Steve Wozniak – co-founder of Apple Inc.
- Cliff Yiskis – NASCAR driver
Sister cities
Cupertino is twinned with:
Friendship cities
Cupertino also has friendly relations with:
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External links
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Cupertino ˌ k uː p er ˈ t iː n oʊ KOOP er TEEN oh is a city in Santa Clara County California United States directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains The population was 60 381 as of the 2020 census The city is widely known for being the home of Apple Inc headquartered within the city at Apple Park Cupertino CaliforniaCityClockwise from top View from the Santa Cruz Mountains Apple Park Apple Inc HQ Le Petit Trianon Steve Jobs Theater Cupertino City CenterFlagSealLocation of Cupertino in Santa Clara County CaliforniaCupertino CaliforniaLocation within the United StatesCoordinates 37 19 23 N 122 01 55 W 37 32306 N 122 03194 W 37 32306 122 03194CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCountySanta ClaraRegionSan Francisco Bay AreaIncorporatedOctober 10 1955Named forArroyo San Jose de Cupertino Saint Joseph of CupertinoGovernment TypeCouncil manager BodyCity council J R Fruen Sheila Mohan Ray Wang MayorLiang Chao Vice MayorKitty MooreArea Total11 33 sq mi 29 34 km2 Land11 33 sq mi 29 34 km2 Water0 00 sq mi 0 00 km2 0 01 Elevation236 ft 72 m Population 2020 Total60 381 Density5 300 sq mi 2 100 km2 Time zoneUTC 8 Pacific Summer DST UTC 7 PDT ZIP Codes95014 95015Area codes408 669FIPS code06 17610GNIS feature IDs277496 2410278Websitecupertino wbr org Named for a local creek by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza s cartographer bearing the name of Saint Joseph of Cupertino Cupertino was officially incorporated in 1955 though it saw economic activity in the early 19th century The area was originally an agricultural community producing prunes apricots and cherries with a winery joining the ranks by the 19th century Cupertino grew immensely during the 1950s due to the suburban housing boom experienced after the Second World War concurring with the earliest roots of Silicon Valley developing near Cupertino By the 1960s office parks were being built and technology companies were setting up shop in the city most notably Apple and Hewlett Packard Today Cupertino remains a cornerstone of Silicon Valley with its residents making a median household income of just under 200 000 a year The economy is dominated by technology companies both large ones like Apple as well as medium sized companies and various Silicon Valley startups EtymologyCupertino was named after Arroyo San Jose de Cupertino now Stevens Creek The creek had been named by Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza s cartographer who named it after Saint Joseph of Cupertino The name Cupertino first became widely used when John T Doyle a San Francisco lawyer and historian named his winery on McClellan Road Cupertino After the turn of the 20th century Cupertino displaced the former name for the region which was West Side HistoryCupertino Improvement Assn 1954 In the 19th century Cupertino was a small rural village at the crossroads of Stevens Creek Road and Saratoga Mountain View Road also known locally as Highway 9 later Saratoga Sunnyvale Road and then renamed to De Anza Boulevard within Cupertino city limits For decades the intersection was dominated on the southeast corner by the R Cali Brothers Feed Mill which is replaced today with the Cali Mill Plaza and City Hall Back then it was known as the West Side and was part of Fremont Township The primary economic activity was fruit agriculture Almost all of the land within Cupertino s present day boundaries was covered by prune plum apricot and cherry orchards A winery on Montebello Ridge overlooking the Cupertino valley region was also in operation by the late 19th century Soon railroads electric railways and dirt roads traversed the West Side farmlands Monta Vista Cupertino s first housing tract was developed in the mid 20th century as a result of the electric railway s construction After World War II a population and suburban housing boom dramatically shifted the demographics and economy of the Santa Clara Valley as the Valley of Heart s Delight was beginning to transform into Silicon Valley In 1954 a rancher Norman Nathanson the Cupertino Monta Vista Improvement Association and the Fact Finding Committee began a drive for incorporation On September 27 1955 voters approved the incorporation of the city of Cupertino 225 voted yes and 183 voted no Cupertino officially became Santa Clara County s 13th city on October 10 1955 A major milestone in Cupertino s development was the creation by some of the city s largest landowners of VALLCO Business and Industrial Park in the early 1960s Of the 25 property owners 17 decided to pool their land to form VALLCO Park 6 sold to Varian Associates property later sold to Hewlett Packard and two opted for transplanting to farms elsewhere The name VALLCO was derived from the names of the principal developers Varian Associates and the Leonard Lester Craft and Orlando families A neighborhood outdoor shopping center and much later the enclosed Vallco Fashion Park briefly renamed Cupertino Square were also developed De Anza College opened in 1967 The college named for Juan Bautista De Anza occupies a 112 acre 0 45 km2 site that was the location of a winery built at the turn of the 20th century called Beaulieu by its owners Charles and Ella Baldwin Their mansion has now become the California History Center De Anza College had 16 335 students as of 2022 By the 1980s Apple Inc and Hewlett Packard were the primary technology companies with major presences in Cupertino with Housing developments were rapidly constructed in the following years as developers created neighborhoods including Fairgrove Garden Gate Monta Vista Seven Springs and other developments The city is known for its high real estate prices citation needed 2010 saw HP consolidate its Bay Area workforce in its hometown of Palo Alto and the company proceeded to close its campus within Cupertino The city estimated that the closure of the campus would lead to 3 000 to 3 500 employees being relocated Apple eventually bought the campus site from HP for an undisclosed price and prepared to use the land to build Apple Park GeographyStevens Creek Reservoir Cupertino is located at 37 19 23 N 122 01 55 W 37 32306 N 122 03194 W 37 32306 122 03194 37 3229978 122 0321823 at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay The eastern part of the city located in the Santa Clara Valley is flat while the western part of the city slopes into the Santa Cruz Mountains Cupertino borders San Jose and Santa Clara to the east Saratoga to the south Sunnyvale and Los Altos to the north and Loyola to the northwest Several streams run through Cupertino on their way to south San Francisco Bay including from north to south Permanente Creek Stevens Creek San Tomas Aquino Creek and its Smith Creek the Regnart Creek and Prospect Creek tributaries of Calabazas Creek and Saratoga Creek According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 11 3 square miles 29 km2 99 99 of it land and 0 01 of it water Climate Cupertino has a warm summer Mediterranean climate Csb under the Koppen climate classification system with warm to hot dry summers and cool wet winters Climate data for Cupertino CaliforniaMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high F C 79 26 89 32 89 32 94 34 104 40 108 42 111 44 103 39 109 43 100 38 96 36 87 31 111 44 Mean daily maximum F C 58 4 14 7 62 2 16 8 65 7 18 7 70 21 74 3 23 5 79 1 26 2 82 28 81 7 27 6 81 2 27 3 75 5 24 2 66 8 19 3 59 15 71 3 21 9 Daily mean F C 48 3 9 1 51 6 10 9 54 12 57 14 60 7 15 9 64 7 18 2 67 3 19 6 67 19 65 9 18 8 61 2 16 2 54 3 12 4 48 9 9 4 58 4 14 6 Mean daily minimum F C 38 2 3 4 41 1 5 1 42 4 5 8 43 9 6 6 47 1 8 4 50 2 10 1 52 6 11 4 52 4 11 3 50 6 10 3 47 8 41 8 5 4 38 8 3 8 45 5 7 5 Record low F C 19 7 23 5 28 2 29 2 32 0 31 1 38 3 39 4 36 2 30 1 24 4 20 7 19 7 Average rainfall inches cm 3 7 6 2 6 6 6 2 3 5 8 1 2 5 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 25 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 76 0 6 1 5 1 5 3 8 2 7 6 9 14 5 36 71 Average rainy days 10 9 9 5 3 1 0 0 1 3 6 9 56Source Monthly All Data for Cupertino Santa Clara University California Neighborhoods Cupertino is made up of numerous subdivisions most of them developed since the 1960s Most of Cupertino s contemporary properties were developed around 1960 The area between Stevens Creek Boulevard Miller Avenue Bollinger Road and Lawrence Expressway contains 224 Eichler homes built during the 1950s Two of the newest parts of Cupertino are among its oldest housing tracts Monta Vista and Rancho Rinconada were developed outside of the city s boundaries in the 1950s and before Rancho Rinconada was annexed in 1999 and the last part of Monta Vista was annexed in 2004 The neighborhood of Seven Springs is at the southwestern tip of Cupertino and was developed in the late 1980s The newest and most northwestern neighborhood Oak Valley borders Rancho San Antonio Park and was developed around the turn of the millennium Cupertino is known for its high housing prices as the majority of residential properties are multimillion dollar homes as of the priciest housing market peak of 2022 with the entry point into a single family home at around 2 million dollars in the Cupertino HS area and the entry point at around 2 6 million dollars in the Monta Vista HS area Many smaller homes start from the high 2 millions mid size homes start from the mid 3 millions and larger executive homes start from mid 4 millions and can go up to as much as 7 million as of the 2022 peak However townhouses and condos with similar square footage are relatively less expensive owing mainly to negligible lot sizes and the many common walls and areas DemographicsHistorical population CensusPop Note 19603 664 197017 895388 4 198034 29791 7 199040 26317 4 200050 54625 5 201058 30215 3 202060 3813 6 U S Decennial CensusSaint Joseph of Cupertino Church of the Catholic Diocese of San Jose 63 percent of Cupertino s population was of Asian ancestry in 2010 compared to 32 percent in Santa Clara County overall Money s Best Places to Live America s best small towns ranked Cupertino as 27 in 2012 the second highest in California In 2014 Movoto Real Estate ranked Cupertino the seventh happiest suburb in the United States ranking highly in the categories of income safety marriage and education In 2015 Forbes ranked Cupertino as one of the most educated places in the U S in respect to the percentage of high school and college graduates 2010 Picchetti Brothers Winery The 2010 United States Census reported that Cupertino had a population of 58 302 The population density was 5 179 1 inhabitants per square mile 1 999 7 km2 The racial makeup of Cupertino was 18 270 31 3 White 344 0 6 Black American 117 0 2 Native American 36 895 63 3 Asian 28 1 Chinese 22 6 Indian 4 6 Korean 3 3 Japanese 1 3 Vietnamese 54 0 1 Pacific Islander 670 1 1 from other races and 1 952 3 3 from two or more races Hispanic of any race were 2 113 persons 3 6 2 4 of Cupertino s population is of Mexican ancestry The census reported that 57 965 people 99 4 of the population lived in households 61 0 1 lived in non institutionalized group quarters and 276 0 5 were institutionalized There were 20 181 households out of which 9 539 47 3 had children under the age of 18 living in them 13 802 68 4 were opposite sex married couples living together 1 393 6 9 had a female householder with no husband present 581 2 9 had a male householder with no wife present There were 378 1 9 unmarried opposite sex partnerships and 89 0 4 same sex married couples or partnerships 3 544 households 17 6 were made up of individuals and 1 612 8 0 had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older The average household size was 2 87 There were 15 776 families 78 2 of all households the average family size was 3 28 The population was spread out with 16 075 people 27 6 under the age of 18 3 281 people 5 6 aged 18 to 24 15 621 people 26 8 aged 25 to 44 16 044 people 27 5 aged 45 to 64 and 7 281 people 12 5 who were 65 years of age or older The median age was 39 9 years For every 100 females there were 97 4 males For every 100 females age 18 and over there were 94 6 males There were 21 027 housing units at an average density of 1 867 9 per square mile 721 2 km2 of which 12 627 62 6 were owner occupied and 7 554 37 4 were occupied by renters The homeowner vacancy rate was 0 8 the rental vacancy rate was 4 7 36 464 people 62 5 of the population lived in owner occupied dwelling units and 21 501 people 36 9 lived in rental dwelling units EconomyThe headquarters of Apple Inc on Apple Park Way in Cupertino Cupertino is one of many cities that claim to be the heart of Silicon Valley as many semiconductor and computer companies were founded there and in the surrounding areas The new worldwide headquarters for Apple Inc is located there in a modern circular complex It is a 150 acre 610 000 m2 campus between Interstate 280 N Wolfe Rd E Homestead Rd and along Tantau Ave one mile east of the old campus The nine properties 50 acre 0 2 km2 south of Pruneridge Avenue were bought in 2006 the property 100 acre 0 4 km2 north of it in 2010 from Hewlett Packard On June 7 2011 Steve Jobs gave a presentation to Cupertino City Council detailing the architectural design of the new building and its environs The campus houses 13 000 employees in one central four story circular building surrounded by extensive landscaping with parking mainly underground and the rest centralized in a parking structure Cali Mill Plaza containing the Cypress Hotel and various restaurants In 2002 Cupertino had a labor force of 25 780 with an unemployment rate of 4 5 The unemployment rate for Santa Clara County as a whole was 8 4 One of the major employers in the area is the aggregate rock quarry and cement plant in the foothills to the west of Cupertino the Permanente Quarry Owned and operated by Lehigh Southwest Cement it was founded by Henry J Kaiser as the Kaiser Permanente Cement Plant in 1939 It provided the majority of the cement used in the construction of the Shasta Dam citation needed It supplied the 6 million barrels 950 000 m3 of cement over a nine mile 14 km long conveyor system failed verification citation needed The cement plant is the sole reason for the railroad line that runs through the city Top employers According to the city s 2020 21 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report the top employers in the city are Employer1 Apple2 Cupertino Union School District3 Corinthian International Parking Services4 Synoptic Systems Inc 5 De Anza Community College District6 Target Stores Inc 7 Fremont Union High School District8 Forum Healthcare Center9 Whole Foods Market10 Mobileum Inc GovernmentThe city seal of Cupertino from 1999 to 2007 Cupertino was incorporated in 1955 The highest body in the city government the City Council is made up of five members who serve overlapping four year terms The council elects the mayor and vice mayor for a term of one year The city does not have its own charter Instead it is a General Law city which follows provisions and requirements for cities established by the state of California Cupertino contracts with the Santa Clara County Sheriff s Office and the Santa Clara County Fire Department for public safety services The Cupertino Library is part of the Santa Clara County Library System In the California State Legislature Cupertino is in the 15th Senate District represented by Democrat Dave Cortese and in the 26th Assembly District represented by Democrat Patrick Ahrens In the United States House of Representatives Cupertino is in California s 17th congressional district represented by Democrat Ro Khanna EducationMcClellan Ranch Preserve Santa Clara County Library operates the Cupertino Library which is located adjacent to city hall The library which was redesigned and rebuilt in 2004 is the busiest branch in the Santa Clara County Library system with about 3 million items circulated annually The San Francisco Japanese School a weekend educational program for Japanese citizen children living abroad holds classes at J F Kennedy Middle School in Cupertino as well as Harker a private school Primary and secondary Homestead High School Cupertino is known for its high achieving primary and secondary school students For example Murdock Portal Elementary and Faria Elementary School are tied for highest score for elementary public school in the state of California per California 2013 API test scores As of 2013 John F Kennedy Middle School is the best public middle school in the state and Lawson Middle School is the third best in the state Furthermore Monta Vista High School is ranked number 23 out of all the public high schools in the nation Primary K 8 public schools are organized into the Cupertino Union School District while the Fremont Union High School District is responsible for high school students except for a tiny portion of the northeast corner of the city which belongs to the Santa Clara Unified School District Cupertino High School and its feeder school Hyde Middle School are located in the Rancho Rinconada section of Cupertino while Monta Vista High School and its feeder Kennedy Middle School are in the Monta Vista neighborhood in the western half of Cupertino Lawson Middle School feeds mostly Cupertino and Monta Vista High In addition Homestead High School is located in the northwestern portion of Cupertino along the city border with neighboring Sunnyvale Colleges and universities Cupertino is home to De Anza College one of the two community colleges in the Foothill De Anza Community College District The University of San Francisco has satellite campuses in Cupertino citation needed TransportationCupertino Memorial Park The city is served by an interconnected road system Two freeways State Route 85 and Interstate 280 intersect in Cupertino with multi lane boulevards with landscaped medians and traffic lights at all major intersections Almost all streets have sidewalks the few exceptions are in unincorporated pockets at the city s edges which are maintained directly by Santa Clara County Cupertino has bike lanes on many of its boulevards and has an extension of the Stevens Creek Trail through McClellan Ranch Park and Blackberry Farm Bicycle traffic is heavy usually around morning and noon times around DeAnza College The VTA has buses running through Cupertino at major arteries Cupertino s main streets are well lit while a few older roads towards the Monta Vista High School area are a little dim Dedicated on April 30 2009 Cupertino opened the Mary Avenue Bicycle Footbridge the first cable stayed bicycle pedestrian bridge over a California freeway This bridge connects the north and the south sections of the Stevens Creek Trail The cost of the bridge project was 14 800 000 The Union Pacific Railroad operates a branch line track up to the Lehigh Permanente Cement Plant from the mainline at San Jose Diridon Station It is however strictly for the quarry and very little to no non quarry traffic runs there Public transit in Cupertino is powered by Via Transportation and utilizes on demand shuttles There is no commuter rail or light rail service in the city Caltrain commuter rail runs through the cities to the north and east and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority VTA s Mountain View Winchester light rail line runs to Campbell California to the south Bus service is also provided by VTA and the prospect of a twenty four hour bus service on Stevens Creek Boulevard is being studied Cupertino is also served by VTA s 523 Rapid bus which runs from northern Sunnyvale and the Caltrain station to Downtown San Jose with limited stops and signal priority Cupertino is landlocked and relies on the Port of Oakland for most oceangoing freight Passenger and cargo air transportation is available at San Jose International Airport in San Jose The closest general aviation airport is in Palo Alto it is known as Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County The City of Cupertino partnered with Via Transportation in October 2019 to launch a new on demand public transportation network Unlike traditional bus networks that rely on routes and schedules the new microtransit service called Via allows riders to hail a shared ride on demand through a smartphone app The transit network serves the entire City of Cupertino with a satellite zone surrounding the Sunnyvale Caltrain station for commuters Notable peopleMatt Arya soccer player Matthew Axelson Navy SEAL Kris Bubic baseball player Redmond Burke pediatric heart surgeon Raymond Carver writer and poet Aaron Eckhart actor Scott Erickson baseball player Paul Fong California politician Clark Glasson golf course architect Adyashanti spiritual teacher Mark Tapio Kines film director writer producer Steve Jobs co founder of Apple Inc David Kramer soccer player Ronnie Lott College and Pro Football Hall of Famer Bryan Mantia drummer Kurt Rambis basketball player and coach Josiah Little Pickard school administrator Adam Peters NFL executive Daniel Puder mixed martial arts fighter Fred Sablan musician Charlie Tagawa Japanese American musician Khyri Thomas basketball player Savita Vaidhyanathan politician Elizabeth Lowe Watson leader in the California Equal Suffrage Association Sandy Wihtol baseball player Steve Wozniak co founder of Apple Inc Cliff Yiskis NASCAR driverSister citiesCupertino is twinned with Copertino Italy Bhubaneswar India Hsinchu Taiwan Toyokawa JapanFriendship cities Cupertino also has friendly relations with Jiangmen China Jilin City China Luoyang China Shenzhen China Taichung Taiwan Taipei Taiwan Tongxiang China Xianning China Yilan City Taiwan Zhaoqing China New Taipei TaiwanReferences California Cities by Incorporation Date California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions Archived from the original Word on November 3 2014 Retrieved August 25 2014 City Council Members Cupertino Retrieved December 23 2024 Mayor City of Cupertino CA Retrieved December 23 2024 Vice Mayor City of Cupertino CA 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