Home › States › California › Alameda
The median home value in Alameda, CA is $1,145,869, up 2.1% from a year earlier.
City housing-data period: September 2026. City source retrieval/check time (UTC) is recorded in the feed's updated field when available, not in the housing-data period.
Checked daily for new monthly Zillow releases, not new daily prices. Income and crime data are updated separately, not by the daily housing-data check. Unavailable means observation dates are missing or invalid.
Median Home Value
$1,145,869
Year-over-Year
+2.1%
Population
74,458
The typical home value decreased by 2.0%, from $1,169,454 in May 2026 to $1,145,869 in Sep 2026.
Monthly Zillow Home Value Index snapshots retained by HomePriceMap. A short history is shown now and grows automatically as each new monthly release arrives.
| Month | Typical home value | Year-over-year change |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | $1,169,454 | -2.6% |
| Jun 2026 | $1,160,754 | -1.4% |
| Jul 2026 | $1,156,096 | -0.1% |
| Aug 2026 | $1,137,620 | +1.2% |
| Sep 2026 | $1,145,869 | +2.1% |
Alameda ranks #95 of 395 California cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 51.8% above the state's city median of $754,898. It sits in Alameda County, where the county-wide median is $1,044,951.
Median household income in Alameda is $137,697, so the typical home value is about 8.3× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Alameda police recorded a violent crime rate of 317 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 4,914 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Alameda, that value is $1,145,869. That's up 2.1% from a year earlier. It is about 51.8% above the typical California city tracked here.
Homes in Alameda are more expensive than Alameda County as a whole, where the median is $1,044,951 — a difference of about 9.7%.
Median household income here is $137,697, so the typical home value is about 8.3× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Alameda police reported 317 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 74,458. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.