Alameda, CA Rental Market Trends

Alameda Rent Report: May 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List May 2024 Rent Report for Alameda, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,155, after falling 1.0% last month. Prices are now down 9.6% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Alameda rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader San Francisco metro area and the nation as a whole.

Alameda rents are down 1.0% month-over-month and down 9.6% year-over-year

The median rent in Alameda fell by 1.0% over the course of April, and has now decreased by a total of 9.6% over the past 12 months. Alameda’s rent growth over the past year has has fallen behind both the state (-0.9%) and national averages (-0.8%).

Alameda rent growth in 2024 pacing above last year

Four months into the year, rents in Alameda have fallen 2.7%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to April 2023 rents had decreased 4.1%.

Alameda rents are 14.9% lower than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider San Francisco metro area, the median rent is $2,532 meaning that the median price in Alameda ($2,155) is 14.9% lower than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -1.9%, above the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 19 cities in the San Francisco metro area that are included in our database. Among them, San Mateo is currently the most expensive, with a median rent of $3,178. Berkeley is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,941. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in Concord (3.2%) while the slowest is in Oakland (-10.3%).

City
Median 1BR Rent
Median 2BR Rent
M/M Rent Growth
Y/Y Rent Growth
Alameda
$1,878
$2,356
-1.0%
-9.6%
Berkeley
$1,790
$2,160
0.1%
-8.4%
Concord
$2,029
$2,388
0.5%
3.2%
Contra Costa Centre
$2,693
$3,261
2.5%
2.3%
Daly City
$2,535
$3,121
-0.2%
3.2%
Dublin
$2,681
$3,104
0.8%
-1.0%
Emeryville
$2,846
$3,436
0.4%
-2.8%
Fremont
$2,257
$2,735
1.5%
-1.0%
Hayward
$2,251
$2,532
0.0%
-1.3%
Livermore
$1,937
$2,519
-0.3%
-3.2%
Oakland
$1,799
$2,159
-0.4%
-10.3%
Pleasanton
$2,146
$2,767
0.7%
-2.9%
Redwood City
$2,693
$3,411
1.1%
0.4%
San Bruno
$2,447
$2,968
0.8%
2.5%
San Francisco
$2,698
$3,198
0.4%
-1.5%
San Mateo
$2,815
$3,526
1.5%
1.1%
South San Francisco
$2,369
$3,105
0.4%
1.5%
Union City
$2,357
$2,624
1.9%
-0.6%
Walnut Creek
$2,435
$2,987
1.0%
1.2%
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You can also use the map below to explore the latest rent trends in the San Francisco metropolitan area.

Methodology

Apartment List is committed to the accuracy and transparency of our rent estimates. We begin with reliable median rent statistics from the Census Bureau, then extrapolate them forward to the current month using a growth rate calculated from our listing data. In doing so, we use a same-unit analysis similar to Case-Shiller’s approach, capturing apartment transactions over time to provide an accurate picture of rent growth in cities across the country. Our approach corrects for the sample bias inherent in other private sources, producing results that are much closer to statistics published by the Census Bureau and HUD. For more details, please see the Apartment List Rent Estimate Methodology.

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