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A market with no active rental pool to price against. The sale-side figures below are the whole picture.
What would change this read: the median listing price is −15.0% YoY. inventory, +17.9% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 15.0% YoY while the median home got down 7.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 0.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 94538 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 55.3% of this ZIP's 23,628 occupied households, on a median household income of $147K.
| Measure | ZIP 94538 | Alameda County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $147K | $129K | +$18K |
| Below Poverty Level | 5.5% | 9.2% | -3.7% |
| Median Age | 36.70 | 39.00 | -2.30 |
| Total Population | 67,781 | 1,649,473 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.82 | 2.70 | +0.12 |
| Owner-Occupied | 44.7% | 54.4% | -9.7% |
| Worked From Home | 29.1% | 25.7% | +3.4% |
| Mean Commute | 29.00 | 31.00 | -2.00 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.1% to 1,649,473: residents under 18 are down 1.4% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $129K, 9.2% of residents are below the poverty level, 25.7% work from home.