The week in review: October 5–9
The week of October 5–9 on sanjose.metrotrendlines.com, in 10 posts.
Monday, October 5 — Unemployment in the city of San Jose, August 2026. 4.4% of the city of San Jose’s labor force was unemployed in August 2026, against 4.8% a year earlier. Across the whole metro area the rate was 4.3% in August 2026.
Monday, October 5 — Moffett Field against normal, September 2026. September 2026 at Moffett Field ran 0.1°F below normal.
Tuesday, October 6 — Santa Clara County for-sale inventory, September 2026. Santa Clara County ended September 2026 with 1,987 active for-sale listings, up 20.3% from a year earlier.
Tuesday, October 6 — What Santa Clara County sellers listed, September 2026. Santa Clara County sellers put 1,290 new listings on the market in September 2026, up 2.4% from the same month a year earlier.
Wednesday, October 7 — Santa Clara County asking prices, September 2026. The median Santa Clara County listing asked $1,409,500 in September 2026, down 0.3% from a year earlier.
Wednesday, October 7 — Santa Clara County homes under contract, September 2026. 848 Santa Clara County listings were under contract at the end of September 2026, down 10.5% from a year earlier.
Thursday, October 8 — San Jose-metro unemployment, August 2026. San Jose-metro unemployment was 4.3% in August 2026, the newest month in the series and the monthly update to the unemployment post. That is down 0.4 points from 4.7% in the same month a year earlier, and up from 4.1% the month before.
Thursday, October 8 — How long a Santa Clara County listing sits, September 2026. The median Santa Clara County listing sat 34 days on the market in September 2026, against 36 days a year earlier.
Friday, October 9 — California jobless claims, week of Oct 3, 2026. California workers filed 38,757 initial unemployment claims in the week ending Oct 3, 2026; the steadier four-week average is 35,182, down 11.8% from the same weeks a year ago. Read the chart in two parts.
Friday, October 9 — San Jose’s labor force, August 2026. The San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara labor force — everyone employed or actively looking for work — was 1,069,363 in August 2026, down 0.9% from a year earlier.
The week in review: every post from October 5–9, summarised from its own listing blurb and linked. Assembled each Saturday from the posts that actually published that week.