ZIP 94542 Property Distress & Foreclosure Data

DLRadar grades ZIP 94542 (Alameda County, California) at a low 24/100 for overall property distress. Structural exposure scores 53 and live distress 2 on the 0–100 scale. Property-level stress concentrates in structural risk (53/100), construction/permit lag (23/100), institutional ownership (20/100). By contrast, institutional ownership (20/100) and mortgage stress (8/100) register low. It additionally carries heavy environmental risk: climate & FEMA risk (100/100), flood (NFIP) exposure (87/100).

The market reads peak — home values rose 1.2% year on year, and 5% higher over three years, at 23/100 phase confidence. Topping markets hide individual distress behind strong averages.

Vacancy runs 7.0%. Rent burden reaches 42% of tenant households. About 14,729 people live here, median age 43. Around 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher. 72% of housing is owner-occupied. There are about 5,201 housing units across 94542. The typical home is worth about $1,148,000 (8.2× income, severely stretched). The demographic-stress sub-score lands at 42/100. The poverty rate is 8.7%. At $131,989, median income runs above typical U.S. levels.

Net-net, 94542 is middle-of-the-pack, where the deals are specific addresses rather than the whole ZIP. Every signal above traces to a verifiable public dataset, refreshed continuously and scored the same way in every ZIP nationwide.