Oakland Hills market desk
Dated reports and neighborhood guides for ZIP 94611 and nearby hills pockets. Every number carries a source and as-of window.
Latest report
Open →Is 94611 competitive for buyers right now?
ACS 2024 5-year household and housing context for ZIP 94611 — sourced, dated, and clear about what it is (and is not).
Read the ZIP snapshot GuideDOM and sale-to-list, without the spin
An educational walkthrough of two listing metrics buyers see on every listing sheet.
Read the guideNeighborhoods
All →What is Montclair, Oakland like?
Village-scale commercial core, hillside streets, and a 94611 ZIP that also covers other pockets.
Montclair guide Upper RockridgeHow is Upper Rockridge different?
Closer to Rockridge BART than the Montclair village core. Same ZIP overlay; different pocket.
Upper Rockridge guideGuides
All →How to read days on market and sale-to-list
What the metrics mean, what they hide, and why a ZIP median is not a street-level promise.
Open guide ProcessFirst-time buyer process in the Oakland Hills
A process map plus links to county and HUD hubs. We link to official program pages rather than inventing dollar amounts.
Open guideHow we use data
Hills Desk publishes cited public statistics first — currently American Community Survey estimates for ZCTA 94611 via Census Reporter (ACS 2024 5-year unless noted). These describe households, housing stock, and owner-reported values. They are not MLS sale medians.
Monthly sale metrics (median price, days on market, sale-to-list, inventory) appear on the dated report when we can publish them with a clear source. ACS figures are ZIP-level estimates with margins of error. 94611 is not the same as Montclair or Upper Rockridge. See About for more on our approach and fair-housing notes.