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|Nextdoor|Mar 14, 2026

Nextdoor Audience in San Jose, CA by Age and Gender

Nextdoor Audience in San Jose, CA by Age and Gender

Nextdoor audience in San Jose, CA: min monthly reach snapshot

This San Jose snapshot reflects the audience estimates available in the Nextdoor Ads interface for San Jose, CA, US.

The numbers below reflect minimum estimated monthly reach from the Nextdoor Ads interface. This is not a count of unique users. Think of it as a practical gauge of how much local scale you can plan around.

Demographics

San Jose’s Nextdoor audience here is just above 220,000 on the minimum estimate, giving advertisers a meaningful local footprint while still feeling more concentrated than the biggest metro snapshots. The profile is clearly older-leaning, with 55+ representing the largest share of the known-age audience. At the same time, the Unknown age portion remains large enough that the demographic picture should be read as directional rather than perfectly exact.

On gender, the audience skews female overall, while Unknown gender is still material enough to matter operationally. In practice, that means you can plan around a female-leaning mix, but you should still expect some fuzziness when layering age and gender too aggressively in campaign planning.

Nextdoor audience in San Jose, CA (Min Monthly Reach)

San Jose, CA Min Monthly Reach Unknown 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+ Total
Female 20,400 3,000 9,600 16,000 19,000 48,000 116,000
Male 15,500 2,000 6,500 12,000 13,000 31,000 80,000
Unknown 9,100 1,000 1,900 3,000 3,000 8,000 26,000
Total 45,000 6,000 18,000 31,000 35,000 87,000 222,000

Interest segments

The interest table is best read as range planning. “Min” is your conservative baseline for likely scale, while “Max” shows how large the segment can become depending on how Nextdoor expands matching.

In San Jose, the most scalable buckets still lean toward home and lifestyle intent, especially home improvement, gardening, pet ownership, and health. Broad consumer categories such as automotive, finance, real estate, and travel also offer meaningful planning scale, making the mix practical for local services, home-related offers, and neighborhood-driven demand.

A few segments are especially worth watching. Declared Parents and Lifestyles - Parents and Family both show useful scale for family-oriented offers, though they remain broad audience signals rather than tightly qualified parent segments. Recent Mover - 6 Months is also notable because the gap between minimum and maximum reach is unusually wide, which makes it more useful for testing than for rigid forecasting. Small Business Decision Makers and Owners is narrower, but it can still be a helpful angle when you want local SMB exposure outside the usual LinkedIn and Meta workflows.

Nextdoor interest segments in San Jose, CA (Min/Max Monthly Reach)

Interests (San Jose, CA) Min Monthly Reach Max Monthly Reach
Automotive 61,000 327,000
Books 44,000 250,000
Caring for Aging Parents 19,000 120,000
Declared Parents 37,000 216,000
Early Adopter to New Technology 35,000 203,000
Finance 60,000 324,000
Follows High School 38,000 217,000
Food Delivery 35,000 203,000
Gardening & Landscape 83,000 426,000
Health 74,000 387,000
Home Improvement & DIY 100,000 496,000
Home security 36,000 209,000
Insurance 38,000 221,000
Lifestyles - Parents and Family 69,000 363,000
Pet Owners 78,000 405,000
Professional Sports Fans 11,000 74,000
Real Estate 46,000 256,000
Recent Mover - 6 Months 9,100 162,000
Small Business Decision Makers and Owners 6,700 47,000
Style & Fashion 19,000 123,000
Travel 54,000 297,000