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Sunnyvale, California is a city of 136,310 residents in Santa Clara county. It is one of the largest cities in the Silicon Valley, just outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. The home value index for the city, as of May of 2011, was $732,500. This is down 3.1 percent from the previous year, nearing the areas five year low. The market reached its peak in May of 2008 when the home value index was $811,000. The five-year low occurred in May of 2009, when the home value index was only $710,000.

In May of 2011, Sunnyvale realtors moved a total of 122 homes, with a median sale price of $633,700 and a median list price of $600,000. Approximately 6 percent of the property currently being shown by Sunnyvale realtors are condos, and an additional 26.7 percent are single family homes.

Commute times from the Sunnyvale area are relatively low. Almost 40 percent of the homes in Sunnyvale are within 20 minutes of their employment locations, while only 7 percent have a commute longer than an hour. The median income for Sunnyvale residents is $74,409, but the community is known for housing Urban power couples and affluent immigrant power families earning six-figure incomes.

Most of the homes in the community, roughly 71 percent of the homes in the Sunnyvale area, are owned by couples who do not have children, but 56 percent of the residents are married. The median age of Sunnyvale homeowners is 36 years.

The majority of the homes in the area, about 80 percent, were manufactured between the years 1940 and 1980. Home size in the area varies greatly. The smallest homes in the area, totaling less than 9 percent of the total market, have less than 1000 square feet of living space. 28.6 percent of the homes shown by Sunnyvale realtors are between 1000 and 1400 square feet. 32.8 percent of the homes have between 1400 and 1800 square feet. 19.8 percent of the homes have between 1800 and 2400 square feet. 7.1 percent of the homes have between 2400 and 3600 square feet, and finally, the largest homes, making up only 2 percent of the market, have more than 3600 square feet of living space.

The Sunnyvale, California public school district has three high schools, five middle schools, 31 elementary schools and one Autism education center. There is also one private school in the district.