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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 −3.9% YoY. inventory, +12.8% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 3.9% YoY while the median home got down 8.6% bigger, so value per square foot is up 3.0%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 94539 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 21.0% of this ZIP's 17,375 occupied households, on a median household income of $244K.
| Measure | ZIP 94539 | Alameda County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $244K | $129K | +$114K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.0% | 9.2% | -5.2% |
| Median Age | 43.70 | 39.00 | +4.70 |
| Total Population | 52,396 | 1,649,473 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 3.00 | 2.70 | +0.30 |
| Owner-Occupied | 79.0% | 54.4% | +24.6% |
| Worked From Home | 39.5% | 25.7% | +13.8% |
| Mean Commute | 29.90 | 31.00 | -1.10 |
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.