Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Milpitas, CA

Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County whose name is Spanish for little milpas, or little cornfields.

Milpitas traces its origins to Rancho Milpitas, a Mexican land grant made in 1835 to Californio ranchero Jose Maria Alviso, whose Jose Maria Alviso Adobe still stands as a city landmark.

Milpitas incorporated on January 26, 1954, after residents voted to form a city to avoid being swallowed up by the rapidly expanding city of San Jose.

In 1952 the Ford Motor Company bought about 120 acres in Milpitas, when the town's population was only around 800, and its assembly plant anchored the young city's growth.

The Ford assembly plant closed in 1984 and the site was converted into the Great Mall of the Bay Area, which opened in 1994.

Milpitas grew from 27,149 people in 1970 to 62,698 in 2000, and the Census Bureau ranked it the eighth fastest-growing city in the nation between July 2014 and July 2015.

The 2020 census counted 80,273 people in Milpitas, and Census QuickFacts estimates about 25,066 households in the city with an average of 3.06 people per household.

Milpitas is a majority-renter city by Silicon Valley standards, with an owner-occupied housing rate of just 58.4%, and its median owner-occupied home value is about $1,251,700.

Milpitas sits at the junction of Interstates 680 and 880, bordered by San Jose to the south, Fremont to the north, Coyote Creek to the west and Calaveras Reservoir to the east.

The Milpitas BART station opened on June 13, 2020, as part of Phase I of the Silicon Valley BART extension, finally connecting the city to the regional rail network.