San Leandro, California.
Typical home $798,068 (-0.4% in a year), asking rent $2,517 (+3.2%). San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,760 (+72%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $2,874 -0%
- $800,943$798,068 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Down $27,716 -3%
- $825,784$798,068 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.
- San Leandro$4,189
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, prices here aren't rising.
Typical home values in San Leandro, CA fell 0.4% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Asking rents in San Leandro, CA rose 3.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +2.7%.
Owning the typical home in San Leandro runs $3,043/mo more than renting one. The gap peaked at $3,605 in May 2024.
That is $5,560 a month against $2,517 rent: a $4,189 mortgage payment, plus $517 property tax and $854 insurance & upkeep.
Owning vs renting — San Leandro
The owning line is the typical home's monthly payment at that month's rate, plus property tax and insurance & upkeep; the renting line is the typical asking rent; the grey line is the mortgage payment on its own. Same homes, same months, both ways of paying for a roof.
- Owning all in$5,560
- Renting$2,517
- Mortgage only$4,189
Property tax · $517/mo 0.78% of value a year — the ACS 2020-2024 median bill over the median home value for Alameda County, CA
Insurance & upkeep · $854/mo insurance, maintenance and repairs together, from the BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey — the national figure for mortgaged homeowners, scaled to this market's home value. BLS publishes the three bundled and they cannot be split.
Both are priced off the same month's home value, so they rise with the market. Neither is a quote — a specific home's bill depends on its assessment, its age and its insurer.
Living in San Leandro, Alameda County, California
San Leandro is a city of 91,008 people in Alameda County. Half its households earn more than $101,420 a year and half less, against $129,367 across Alameda County; 8% of its people live below the poverty line. 58% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 42% are rented. Unemployment in San Leandro was 4.9% in August 2026, and Alameda County had 0.9% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 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. San Leandro is a city in Alameda County, on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Its residents are somewhat older than in many places, and incomes run below the county's. More homes are lived in by their owners than rented, though renting is common too, and a typical home here costs a good deal. Winters are mild and cool rather than cold, summers are warm but not hot, and rain is modest and mostly falls in the cooler months.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and in restaurants, hotels and entertainment. Among the largest workplaces in San Leandro are KFH - SAN Leandro, a general hospital, San Leandro Unified, the school district, and Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling. Many people commute to work, and a good number work from home. Jobs across Alameda County have slipped slightly over the past year.
Things to do. The USS Hornet, a museum ship, is a short drive away. Farther afield, a longer drive brings you to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and to Golden Gate Park, a large public garden. Baseball fans can drive to Oracle Park, a stadium, for a game.
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- 30,454households
- 33%of adults have a degree
- 8%below the poverty line
- 31 mintypical commute
- 16%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Alameda County had 783,094 jobs in 2025, 0.9% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 58° and lows near 42°; warmest in September, with highs near 74° and lows near 56°. About 19 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Oakland Metro International Airport weather station, 3 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in San Leandro
- KFH - San LeandroGeneral hospital1,109FTE
- San Leandro UnifiedSchool district804FTE
- Bigge Crane and Rigging CoCrane rental with operator699
- Reyes Coca-Cola Bottling638
- Costco WholesaleWholesale grocer466
- ToraniSyrup, beverage, manufacturing417
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Company HQ1Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans394
- WalmartDiscount department stores321
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 98 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 14,234 people in all. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); 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
- Coastal floodingrelatively high in parts of San LeandroRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of San LeandroRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in San Leandro’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 Alameda County and the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA metro.
San Leandro home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- San Leandro$798,068
- California$761,538
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 San Leandro listings, and the typical home goes pending in 15 days — the market is heating up.
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.
- San Leandro20.48%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- San Leandro15
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- San Leandro117
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- San Leandro48
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- San Leandro$807,086
- United States$371,407
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- San Leandro106.11%
Zip codes with a San Leandro address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls San Leandro — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zip codes in San Leandro
| Zip activate to sort by Zip | Place activate to sort by Place | Population sorted descending, activate to sort ascending | Rent activate to sort by Rent | Home value activate to sort by Home value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94577 | San Leandro | 46,317 | $2,691 | $794,024 |
| 94578 | San Leandro | 41,769 | $2,409 | $765,957 |
| 94579 | San Leandro | 20,017 | $3,525 | $840,615 |