Observed arrival · 2026-10-13
Alameda Scorecard: A Resident-Made Measure of City Health
A sourced scorecard compares Alameda across 16 measures of housing, jobs, infrastructure, safety, and health, with a separate guide to local improvements and ballot issues.
- For
- Alameda residents comparing local conditions and city goals
- Worth noticing
- Homelessness is excluded from the cross-country score because countries count it differently, but a local 2026 count is shown separately.
Field notes
Each of five areas averages its measures, while the overall score is a plain average and is only calculated when all five areas have data; homicide and road-death measures use a log scale. The page keeps Alameda’s homelessness count outside the cross-country score because definitions differ, and lists a separate local count of 242 people in 2026 versus 455 in 2024. It also flags county-level life-expectancy data as a limitation.
Observed signals
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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