Harbor Bay

Bounded by MeCartney Avenue, Island Drive and Sea View Parkway, Harbor Bay is an upper middle-class, family-oriented suburb with lush green community aesthetics. And it boasts a good two or three miles of bayside residential terrain on top of that. The area itself spans about 1.1 square miles of exclusive residential terrain. Demographically speaking, the community is pretty dense, totaling about 8,000 residents split evenly between white and asians.

Situated on the western end of Alameda, Harbor Bay is one of the nicest residential communities in Alameda. Most homes are fairly new (in Alameda standards), built within the 1980’s and colored in a sort of beige tint, eliciting a sense of community (or anonymity depending on how you look at it). But houses tend to have a nice upkeep about them, with modern house fronts and large, manicured front yards. This gives plenty of space for children to play in the front yards (which is rare for Alameda). For prospective residents, house values are around $900,000, but can spike up to $1.3 million. Also, most households tend to rake in about $130,000/year, on average, which is twice as much as the typical Alameda community.

If you’re looking for something cheaper, condominiums scatter the neighborhood. They are usually pretty large, two stories in size and have a two-car garage (which usually takes up most of the ground floor space). Rents can still be a bit expensive though, circling around $2,700/month.

For recreation, the Alameda Municipal Golf Course skirts the eastern side of the neighborhood. And for transportation, the Alameda Fairy, that docks around Adelphian Way, transports people from Alameda to San Francisco in a nice thirty minute boat ride.