Alamo, California.
Typical home $2,529,452 (+5.3% in a year), asking rent $7,150 . San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$7,164 (+117%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $126,393 +5%
- $2,403,059$2,529,452 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $294,997 +13%
- $2,234,454$2,529,452 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Alamo$13,276
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 28 years.
Typical home values in Alamo, CA rose 5.3% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Alamo, Contra Costa County, California
Alamo, in Contra Costa County, had 15,314 people in the 2020 census. 92% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 8% are rented. Unemployment in Contra Costa County was 5.0% in August 2026, and the county had 0.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in professional services, then schools and health care.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 24 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Alamo is a small residential community in Contra Costa County, and its residents skew older than in most American towns. Nearly everyone owns the home they live in, far more than across the county, and homes here are valued well above what is typical elsewhere. Poverty is rare, and a four-year degree is common among adults. Winters are mild, with the coldest days in December staying cool but not harsh, and only a trace of snow in a typical year. Summers are warm, with August the warmest month, and the year brings a moderate amount of rain.
Work. Many residents work in professional and business services, in schools, hospitals and social care, in banks, insurance and property, or in shops. Across Contra Costa County, some of the largest workplaces are school districts such as San Ramon Valley Unified and Mt. Diablo Unified, along with hospitals like John Muir Medical Center - WC. The commute is a fairly long one, and a good many people work from home. Unemployment across the county is slightly lower than a year ago, and the number of jobs there has barely changed.
Things to do. The best-known nearby places are a longer drive away. The Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River offer waterways to visit, and in San Francisco the USS Hornet is a museum ship, while the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is an art museum. Golden Gate Park is a large garden and park, also a longer drive away.
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- 5,070households
- 78%of adults have a degree
- 2%below the poverty line
- 29 mintypical commute
- 32%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Contra Costa County had 374,448 jobs in 2025, 0.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 53° and lows near 41°; warmest in August, with highs near 83° and lows near 61°. About 1 inches of snow and 26 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mount Diablo Junction weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Contra Costa County
- West Contra Costa UnifiedSchool district2,751FTE
- Contra Costa Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital2,584FTE
- San Ramon Valley UnifiedSchool district2,519FTE
- 24 Hour Home CareSenior citizens centers2,496
- Mt. Diablo UnifiedSchool district2,466FTE
- John Muir Medical Center - WCGeneral hospital2,143FTE
- Antioch UnifiedSchool district1,552FTE
- JT Thorpe and SonRefractory fireproofing1,523
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 573 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 81,677 people in all across the county; Alamo has two of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- EarthquakesVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- Landslidesrelatively high in parts of AlamoRelatively moderate
- Heat wavesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Alamo’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Contra Costa County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
Alamo home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Alamo$2,529,452
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 4 Alamo listings, and the typical home goes pending in 21 days — the market is roughly in balance.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Alamo23.69%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Alamo40
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Alamo14
Zip codes with a Alamo address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Alamo — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.