Portola Valley, CA
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Portola ValleyCA averageUS Census ACS
Typical home value $4,313,310 +10.3% yr/yr · +24.6% 5-yr
Home-value trend 2000–2026 (Zillow ZHVI)
🗳️ Election results (2 races)
Local election returns — winner marked ✓.
City Council 2024-11-05
Rebecca Flynn ✓ 1,780 · Helen Wolter ✓ 1,573 · Carter J. Warr 1,193 · Ellen Vernazza 871
City Council 2020-11-03
Jeff Aalfs ✓ 2,055 · Sarah Wernikoff ✓ 1,695 · Mary Page Hufty 1,059 · Angela Hey 362
Recent meetings
💰 Federal awards (top 4 by amount)
Largest recent federal contract/grant awards to recipients in this city (2023–present), via USAspending.gov.
| $2.3M | EXODIGM BIOSCIENCES, INC. Department of Defense · TRANSMEMBRANE NANO SENSORS FOR LIVE CELL GENOTYPING AND ENRICHMENT |
| $343,988 | JON KROSNICK CONSULTING Federal Trade Commission · EXPERT SUPPORT |
| $249,520 | BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION Department of Health and Human Services · LDB LYMEX DIAGNOSTICS PRIZE AND LYMEX DXD PILOT: SCIENTIFIC ADVISING A |
| $74,847 | DIFFRACT TECHNOLOGY INC Department of Defense · HOLOPROBE: COMPUTER GENERATED HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION FOR PRECISE SENSI |
Source: USAspending.gov (U.S. Treasury) — federal awards only, not city budgets.
🌐 County-level context (San Mateo County)
County-level context — from BLS, IRS, FEMA, HUD, Census. These figures cover the whole county this city sits in, not just the city itself.
Business establishments21,569 (477,938 employees · 2023)
Fair Market Rent (2BR)$3,318/mo (2025)
Adults with low literacy18.1% (low numeracy 23% · 2017)
Sources: BLS LAUS, IRS SOI, FEMA, NHTSA FARS, Census CBP, HUD, NCES PIAAC
City profile
Everything below is drawn from this city’s own public record and primary-source government data. AI-written summaries are a finding aid, not a citable quote.
$9.3M
Annual budget
34
Employees on payroll
8
Permitted housing units
The money — in
source: Census gov-finance & state comptrollerBudget
Revenue$9.3M
Spending$9.8M
Operating spending ran ahead of revenue this year.
The money — out
source: city procurement & payrollWho the city actually cuts checks to.
34 employees on the public payroll — every position and salary is public record.
Outcomes — economic mobility
source: Opportunity Atlas (Harvard) · research useFor kids who grew up here in low-income households, their adult household-income rank (0–1). The average hides a gap by race:
Research-only layer, shown here for context — not included in the CC BY 4.0 bulk download.
Where it’s happening
geocoded land-use decisions🗺 Interactive map
Every rezoning, development approval, and permit — explore the geocoded records in the research explorer.