Alameda County, CA: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Alameda County, California is scored end-to-end by DLRadar for property distress, drawn only from deterministic public records. Bank/credit headwind for the county is 56 on a 0–100 scale, a moderate reading. Individual Alameda County ZIPs score between 21 and 24 on the 0–100 composite. Coverage runs to 53 ZIPs across Alameda County, a low 21/100 average.

The county market is in a peak phase: home prices rose 0.4% over the past year (phase confidence 12/100). At this stage of the cycle, distress turns selective — the edge is parcel by parcel.

With Alameda County flat at +0.4% YoY (12/100 confidence), the discount lives in outliers — target the few ZIPs carrying distress. A mid-cycle 56/100 lender reading implies both signal sets in play here.

Top distress by ZIP runs 95377 (24/100), 94505 (23/100), 94514 (22/100), 94501 (21/100), 94502 (21/100), 94536 (21/100), listed with every scored ZIP below. Further scored ZIPs: 94538, 94539, 94541, 94542, 94544, 94545, 94546, 94550, 94551, 94552.

Underneath the scores, the ZIPs DLRadar tracks across Alameda County run 11.3% of households below the poverty line, typical home values near $1,118,338, 6.9% of units sitting vacant, an owner-occupied share of 57%, incomes around $135,238, residents with a median age around 39.1. Taken together, they shape the depth of motivated supply and the pace of resale.

Net of it all, 21/100 over 53 ZIPs means the edge is selective acquisition where the ZIP scores point. Unlock Alameda County to see every parcel's owner, APN and address, scoring, lienholder detail and an estimated exit speed.

Because Alameda County, California is scored on the identical public-record model used nationwide, even a quiet county is measured on one scale — letting you weigh Alameda County against neighboring markets or the rest of California on equal footing.

Treat Alameda County, California as a ranked list, not a single market: the spread between its strongest and weakest ZIPs is where the acquisition margin actually sits. The Alameda County read is rebuilt from public records as they post — no modeling fills the gaps — so what you see is what the documents support, refreshed on each ingest.

Drilling in, Alameda County's highest-scoring ZIPs are 95377 (24/100), 94505 (23/100), 94514 (22/100), 94501 (21/100), 94502 (21/100), 94536 (21/100). DLRadar also scores 94538, 94539, 94541, 94542, 94544, 94545, 94546, 94550 and more across the county. Every one of these is scored independently — a ZIP's composite reflects its own recorded distress, which is why the county average alone hides where the real pressure sits.

DLRadar's composite for Alameda County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.