Anecdotal evidence suggests home-based businesses are on the rise throughout the Bay Area.
Neither San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale nor Mountain View compiles data on home-based businesses. However, most of the home businesses are concentrated in Fremont's central neighborhoods. While the findings hint at the potential economic clout of this budding economy, the statistical analysis also points to another emerging factor. The analysis relied on the city's business license database and on demographic data compiled by a private research organization that is also used by the city. The analysis doesn't account for the numerous illegal home businesses that exist in the city, nor does it discount the ones that exist in name only.