Alameda at a Glance

Alameda is a 12.4 square mile island in the bay separated by an estuary from the City of Oakland and located 12 miles east of San Francisco and 13 miles west of Contra Costa County.

Population Trends

According to the most current data on Dept. of Finance’s website, Alameda’s 2008 population was 75,823, up 1.0 percent from 75,077 in 2007.

Transportation

Oakland International Airport is five miles from Alameda and has 14 carriers providing service to 150 cities on 258 daily departures (51 are all-cargo flights). Oakland International is also the Bay Area hub for the United Parcel Service and the northern California operations center for Federal Express.
Road access is facilitated by an excellent network of nearby federal highways (Interstates 880, 80, 580, and 680), and California state highways 24 and 37. Interstate 880 is located 1.5 miles from Alameda.
Alameda is located immediately adjacent to the Port of Oakland, a world- class international cargo transportation and distribution hub. Oakland's cargo volume makes it the fourth busiest container port in the United States, and ranks San Francisco Bay among the three principal Pacific Coast gateways for U.S. containerized cargoes, along with San Pedro Bay in southern California and Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest.
Oakland's 20 deepwater berths and 35 container cranes, 29 of which are Post- Panamax size, are backed by a network of local roads and interstate freeways, warehouses, and intermodal rail yards. The Union Pacific and BNSF railroad facilities are located next to the heart of the marine terminal area to provide a reliable and efficient movement of cargo between the marine terminals or transload facilities and the intermodal rail facilities.

Alameda's Business Parks

Marina Village is comprised of 34 highquality office and office-tech buildings located in a 200-acre master planned community. Marina Village has a 24-hour private security service and a dedicated waterfront pedestrian walkway including a par course exercise circuit.
The Harbor Bay Business Park is home to more than 80 companies. It has continued to see activity since the opening of the Ron Cowan Parkway in 2005, which improved access to Harbor Bay from I-880 and the Oakland International Airport.
Both business parks have shuttle services to nearby BART stations.

Major Non-Governmental Employers

• Alameda Hospital
• Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
• Wind River Systems
• Associated Third Party
• Bay Ship and Yacht
• Sage Group
• Celera Diagnostics LLC
• MBH Architects
• Oakland Raiders
• Bay View Nursing
• Perforce Software

Alameda’s Labor Pool

• Over 90% of Alameda’s employment base lives within a 30-minute commute. Shorter commutes result in greatly improved worker productivity and job satisfaction.
• Alameda’s labor pool excels particularly in the skills most important to knowledge-based industries like high-tech and biotech.
• Within a five-mile radius from Alameda, over 85,000 people hold a bachelor’s degree or better.
• Within a 30-minute commute of Alameda is a workforce equal in size and skills to that of San Jose.

The Waterfront

In addition to Alameda’s 18 parks, the city also offers two large beachside recreation areas: Crab Cove and Crown Memorial State Beach. Crab Cove’s Visitor’s Center has entertaining, educational opportunities designed to increase public understanding of the environmental importance of San Francisco Bay and ocean ecosystems. The center’s staff emphasizes the interdependence of marine life and shore life and the urgency of preserving the marine and estuarine environment. The beach area allows for exploration of the natural habitat founded in the Bay Area.
Crown Memorial State Beach is known for its beautiful sands and warm waters and the beach is a popular daytrip destination. The park’s showpiece is its 2.5-mile beach, with sand dunes bordering a bicycle trail.
Alameda features some of the most beautiful parks in the East Bay and offers a variety of recreational facilities for visitors to enjoy.