Gas prices near 95118

Cambrian Park is settled, mid-century southwest San Jose, a neighborhood of ranch homes prized mostly for its schools. Sitting away from the major interchanges, its retail concentrates on a few key crossings rather than along any freeway.

Almaden Expressway is both the dividing line and the commercial backbone, and the busiest run of stations sits where it meets Branham and Hillsdale. Those intersections pull the steady local errand traffic, so they hold most of the area's pumps. Because Cambrian runs residential and a notch upscale, prices track the South San Jose average rather than dipping under it, though drifting south toward the Camden and Branham crossings sometimes turns up a slightly better number than the stations near the shopping plazas. The neighboring 95124 ZIP shares the same Almaden Expressway spine, so it is common for Cambrian drivers to fill on whichever side of the line happens to be cheaper that day.