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The coastal city of Alameda is located in Alameda County.
Alameda was incorporated April 19, 1854.
Time Zone: Alameda lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time.
Communities that are also named Alameda can be found in:
At the time of the 2000 Census, Alameda had a population of 72,259 people<2> (or 4.98% of the total population of Alameda County). The population of Alameda represented 0.21% of the total of California, making it the state's 89th most populous community.
From the Census Estimates for 2008, Alameda had a population of 70,580 people. This is a decrease of 2.32% since the 2000 Census.
The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Alameda.
| Year | Population | Change
Since 2000 | Year-to-Year Change |
| 2008 | 70,580 | -2.32% | +1.17% since 2007 |
| 2007 | 69,762 | -3.46% | |
| 2006 | 69,794 | -3.41% | -0.13% since 2005 |
| 2005 | 69,882 | -3.29% | |
| --- | | | | 2000 | 72,259 | The Last Census |
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<3> | 2008
Population | Change
Since 2000 |
| | Berkeley |  N | 7 mi [11.27 km] | 101,371 | 1.34% decrease |
| | Daly City |  SW | 11 mi [17.7 km] | 101,514 | 2.03% decrease |
| | Hayward |  SE | 12 mi [19.31 km] | 142,061 | 1.45% increase |
| | Redwood City |  S | 16 mi [25.75 km] | 74,060 | 1.78% decrease |
| | Richmond | N | 14 mi [22.53 km] | 102,285 | 3.09% increase |
| | San Leandro | SE | 7 mi [11.27 km] | 77,880 | 1.98% decrease |
To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Alameda.
Website for Alameda
| Official Website: | www.ci.alameda.ca.us/ |
If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Alameda or Alameda County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.
Search for Local BusinessesPeople have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Alameda. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.
For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.
If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).
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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Alameda: Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Alameda? Please visit the Map Page for Alameda. |
Footnotes
| <1> | We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alameda, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Alameda. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Alameda and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation |
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