Alameda County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties
Alameda County, CA, California: 53 ZIP codes scored, Alameda County, CA averaging 21/100 (low, Alameda, CA), from 20 to 26. Alameda County, CA is in its peak phase (Alameda, CA confidence 12/100): Alameda, CA home prices up 0.4% (Alameda, CA) over twelve months. Alameda County, CA lender headwind: 56/100.
Highest-scoring Alameda County, CA ZIPs: 95377 (26/100), 94501 (21/100), 94502 (21/100), 94536 (21/100), 94538 (21/100), 94539 (21/100). Also scored in Alameda County, CA: 94541, 94542, 94544, 94545, 94546, 94550, 94551, 94552, 94555, 94560.
Across Alameda County, CA's scored ZIPs: median home value $1,118,338, household income $135,238, 6.9% vacancy, 11.3% poverty, 57% owner-occupied, median age 39.1.
Alameda County, CA insurance distress 30/100 (#1,621 in the US); FEMA hazard 0/100 for Alameda, CA; 8 Alameda, CA NFIP flood claims, $539K paid.
37 banks with 233 branches lend in Alameda County, CA; Alameda, CA weighted bank stress 67/100, highest 90/100 in Alameda, CA.
Alameda County, CA unemployment 4.9% (Alameda, CA +0.4 pts, six months); 3,413 new housing units permitted in Alameda County, CA over twelve months, Alameda, CA up 90% from 1,796; Alameda, CA home prices +4.8% a year (Alameda, CA) over three years.
637,212 housing units in Alameda County, CA; 272,405 Alameda, CA renter households; 48% of Alameda, CA renters spend 30%+ of income on rent, 24% (Alameda, CA) half or more.
Alameda County, CA ranks #3,106 nationally on the opportunity index (Alameda, CA, among all ranked counties); Alameda, CA scores 22.0/100 and Alameda, CA sits #51 inside California. Alameda, CA is in the weak opportunity phase; Alameda, CA's primary driver is bank institutional, Alameda, CA second driver vacancy; Alameda, CA moved down 22 places. 119 short-sale listings across Alameda, CA; 89 days on market observed in Alameda, CA; 5.8% vacancy over 53 Alameda, CA ZIPs.
0.3% of Alameda County, CA mortgages were ninety-plus days late in December 2025; Alameda, CA's thirty-to-eighty-nine-day share was 0.7% (CFPB county sample). Alameda, CA's ninety-day rate is unchanged on twelve months earlier; the Alameda, CA peak since 2008 was 6.0% in February 2010; California overall reads 0.5%.
Alameda County, CA has 22 watched banks; 22 Alameda, CA banks sit in an elevated band. Alameda, CA footprints: Fremont Bank (14 branches, stress 75) in Alameda, CA; East West Bank (5 branches, stress 56) in Alameda, CA; United Business Bank (4 branches, stress 79) in Alameda, CA.
HUD lists 68 assisted multifamily properties in Alameda County, CA with 4,310 units; 2,946 Alameda, CA units are assisted, 26 Alameda, CA properties under project-based Section 8.
38,966 of the 637,212 housing units in Alameda, CA sit vacant. Alameda County, CA permitted 2,201 multifamily units in twelve months; Alameda, CA's one-to-four unit structures added 1,212 units in Alameda County, CA.