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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 −6.1% YoY. inventory, +1.5% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 6.1% YoY while the median home got down 5.1% bigger, so value per square foot is down 3.4%.
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 94551 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 29.4% of this ZIP's 14,052 occupied households, on a median household income of $145K.
| Measure | ZIP 94551 | Alameda County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $145K | $129K | +$16K |
| Below Poverty Level | 4.8% | 9.2% | -4.4% |
| Median Age | 39.70 | 39.00 | +0.70 |
| Total Population | 37,885 | 1,649,473 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.68 | 2.70 | -0.02 |
| Owner-Occupied | 70.6% | 54.4% | +16.2% |
| Worked From Home | 21.5% | 25.7% | -4.2% |
| Mean Commute | 31.50 | 31.00 | +0.50 |
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.