Alameda County, California

Overview

Alameda County's FY 2026-27 final budget appropriates $6,753.7 million across all funds, up $613.5 million (10.0%) from the FY 2025-26 final budget of $6,140.2 million. Revenues equal appropriations in both the all-funds and General Fund tables, so the funding gap is $0 in each. The General Fund appropriation is $4,314.4 million, up $25.4 million (0.6%) from $4,289.0 million. The budget funds 10,468.89 FTE (down 17.78 from FY 2025-26) and 16,264 authorized positions, including 2,908 Temporary Assignment Pool and Temporary Election Worker positions.

Source: Alameda County FY 2026-27 Final Budget Adoption presentation (June 25, 2026), budget overview table, p. 3.

At a glance — FY 2026-27 final

Source: Alameda County FY 2026-27 Final Budget Adoption presentation, p. 3.

General Fund — FY 2026-27 final vs. FY 2025-26 final

Note the proposed-to-final step: the final General Fund appropriation ($4,314.4M) is $14.0M above the proposed $4,300.4M, while final revenue is $16.0M below the proposed $4,330.4M — both as printed in the presentation's table. The all-funds final appropriation ($6,753.7M) is $43.8M above the proposed $6,709.9M.

Source: Alameda County FY 2026-27 Final Budget Adoption presentation, p. 3.

Highlighted investments — as presented

The presentation highlights the following investments inside the FY 2026-27 budget. These are highlighted items only, not a full breakdown, and they are not presented as summing to the $6,753.7M total.

The presentation also reports $184.8M in total budget-balancing reductions (program reductions $59.9M plus countywide strategies $124.9M), 125 efficiency actions estimated at $114M, and a District 4 / District 5 budget-letter direction of up to $19.3M to Alameda Health System, including eliminating the remaining 92 proposed layoffs and extending the Partial Hospitalization / Intensive Outpatient behavioral health program through October 31, 2026. The balancing table's program-area rows are partially garbled in text extraction and are not reproduced line by line here; only the printed program total ($59.9M), countywide total ($124.9M), and grand total ($184.8M) are used.

Source: Alameda County FY 2026-27 Final Budget Adoption presentation, pp. 4 and 8.

Board meetings

The Board of Supervisors meets on Tuesday mornings: closed session at 9:30 a.m. and regular calendar at 10:45 a.m., in the 5th Floor Board Chambers, County Administration Building, 1221 Oak Street, Oakland.

Next meeting: Tuesday, October 27, 2026, regular calendar 10:45 a.m.

Alameda County Board of Supervisors

Livability — Alameda County

Alameda County scores 47.0 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #37 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 790.7 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 2.6, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.

Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.

Housing prices — Alameda County

County-level figures for Alameda County.

Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).

Public schools — Alameda County

Schools physically located in Alameda County.

388 public schools in 73 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

6 schools in the NCES 2024–25 locations list for this county are not shown because they are not currently open: Centro Infantil CDC (status 7), Epic Charter (status 6), Harriet Tubman CDC (status 7), Highland CDC (status 7), Lockwood CDC (status 7), United Nations CDC (status 7) — temporarily closed (status 6) or scheduled to open within 2 years (status 7) under NCES CCD operational status codes.

School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.

Neighbor comparison

How Alameda County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.

GF figure: General Fund appropriation, FY 2026-27 final (millions precision).

Contra Costa County: Fund-balance % dashed: available fund balance $244,687,965 is beginning, not ending

San Joaquin County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 balance $382,458,987 is prior-year ending, not FY 2025-26 ending

San Mateo County: Fund-balance % dashed: June 30, 2025 total fund balance $1,648,119,840 is prior-year, not FY 2025-26 ending

Santa Clara County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Stanislaus County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published ($72,186,652 funding required is a gap, not ending)

San Francisco County: No San Francisco County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.

Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.

— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).

Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).

Sources & notes

• Only source used: County Administrator's FY 2026-27 Final Budget Adoption presentation, June 25, 2026 (county budget site). Read the presentation (PDF).
• Sum checks: all-funds appropriation = revenue ($6,753.7M) with $0 gap; General Fund appropriation = revenue ($4,314.4M) with $0 gap; all-funds increase $6,753.7M − $6,140.2M = $613.5M as printed; General Fund increase $4,314.4M − $4,289.0M = $25.4M as printed.
• Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) the full final budget book was not separately retrieved — no department or fund detail beyond the presentation is claimed; (2) all figures are rounded to $0.1M in the presentation; (3) the balancing-table detail rows are partially garbled in text extraction, so only its printed totals are used.
• Fiscal-year label: FY 2026-27 (July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027); adoption presentation dated June 25, 2026, following hearings May 28–June 25, 2026.
• Jurisdiction palette: no verified Alameda County palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a county color.

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