Union City, CA Rental Market Trends

Union City Rent Report: April 2024

Welcome to the Apartment List April 2024 Rent Report for Union City, CA. Currently, the overall median rent in the city stands at $2,624, after rising 1.9% last month. Prices remain down 0.5% year-over-year. Read on to learn more about what’s been happening in the Union City rental market and how it compares to trends throughout the broader San Francisco metro area and the nation as a whole.

Union City rents are up 1.9% month-over-month and flat year-over-year

The median rent in Union City rose by 1.9% over the course of March, and has now decreased by a total of 0.5% over the past 12 months. Union City’s rent growth over the past year has is similar to both the state (-1.0%) and national averages (-0.8%).

Union City rent growth in 2024 pacing above last year

Three months into the year, rents in Union City have risen 2.4%. This is a faster rate of growth compared to what the city was experiencing at this point last year: from January to March 2023 rents had increased 1.5%.

Union City rents are 4.3% higher than the metro-wide median

If we expand our view to the wider San Francisco metro area, the median rent is $2,516 meaning that the median price in Union City ($2,624) is 4.3% greater than the price across the metro as a whole. Metro-wide annual rent growth stands at -2.2%, below the rate of rent growth within just the city.

The table below shows the latest rent stats for 20 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 $3,126. Berkeley is the metro’s most affordable city, with a median rent of $1,919. The metro's fastest annual rent growth is occurring in San Bruno (3.6%) while the slowest is in Alameda (-11.1%).

City
Median 1BR Rent
Median 2BR Rent
M/M Rent Growth
Y/Y Rent Growth
Alameda
$1,896
$2,379
-1.1%
-11.1%
Berkeley
$1,771
$2,136
-1.1%
-7.5%
Concord
$2,015
$2,372
0.3%
2.9%
Contra Costa Centre
$2,616
$3,168
0.6%
-0.2%
Daly City
$2,538
$3,125
-0.4%
2.4%
Dublin
$2,661
$3,081
1.2%
-0.8%
Emeryville
$2,838
$3,427
0.9%
-1.7%
Fremont
$2,218
$2,688
1.2%
-1.8%
Hayward
$2,248
$2,529
0.1%
-0.8%
Livermore
$1,945
$2,530
-0.9%
-4.3%
Oakland
$1,813
$2,177
-0.3%
-10.1%
Pleasanton
$2,131
$2,748
0.7%
-2.4%
Redwood City
$2,648
$3,353
-0.1%
-0.5%
San Bruno
$2,427
$2,943
1.7%
3.6%
San Francisco
$2,685
$3,182
0.6%
-2.1%
San Mateo
$2,768
$3,468
1.9%
0.7%
San Ramon
$2,273
$2,623
-0.1%
-2.4%
South San Francisco
$2,361
$3,095
2.1%
1.2%
Union City
$2,315
$2,577
1.9%
-0.5%
Walnut Creek
$2,407
$2,952
0.8%
0.1%
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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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