The Bay Area has 26 active DMV field offices; the smallest town hosting one is Corte Madera

Asked:How many DMVs in Bay Area? Which are least populated?

Counted from 27 official California DMV field-office pages fetched 2026-09-01, covering the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area — general field offices only, not kiosks, business partners or industry centers. Host-city populations come from California Department of Finance E-1 estimates, mostly January 1, 2026. Host-city population describes the town an office sits in, not how busy the office is.

2627 official field-office URLs, minus 1. The Walnut Creek page no longer serves an active Walnut Creek office — it currently presents Concord DMV field-office content — so it is excluded, leaving 26 operating offices across the nine counties.

Where the 26 offices are

Nine-county tile map · number = active field offices in that county · hover a county for its offices

Smallest host cities and towns

Population of the incorporated city or town hosting each office · black = DOF E-1, Jan 1 2026 · grey = Jan 1 2024 E-1, no 2026 figure in gathered sources

Corte Madera (Marin) is by far the smallest host, ahead of El Cerrito and Los Gatos. Santa Teresa is a San Jose neighborhood and Oakland Coliseum sits in Oakland, so those offices roll up to their cities; the two Pleasanton offices share one municipal population.

Corte Madera, population 9,882 (Jan 1 2024 E-1; no 2026 figure in the gathered sources), is the smallest municipality with a DMV office — dmv.ca.gov

El Cerrito (25,700, 2024) and Los Gatos (31,439, Jan 1 2026) are the next-smallest hosts — californiacitynews.org

Alameda County has the most offices (6), including two in Pleasanton and two in Oakland; San Francisco and Napa counties have one each — dmv.ca.gov

San Jose (980,434 on Jan 1 2026) is the largest host city and effectively carries two offices, San Jose and the Santa Teresa neighborhood office — dof.ca.gov

The legacy Walnut Creek page now points readers to Concord, which is why 27 official URLs reconcile to 26 active offices — dmv.ca.gov

Office directory by county

Host-city populations behind the ranking

Directory: 27 official California DMV field-office pages fetched 2026-09-01; the Walnut Creek URL is listed as inactive because its page serves Concord office content. Populations: California Department of Finance E-1 city estimates, January 1 2026 where available (Los Gatos via a DOF-derived news summary; Pleasanton via a DOF price-and-population letter); Corte Madera, El Cerrito, Gilroy, Fairfield and Vacaville shown at January 1 2024, the newest figure in the gathered sources. Host-city population does not measure DMV traffic or wait time. Kiosks, partner locations and industry business centers are excluded.

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