The 10 Richest Neighborhoods In Hayward, CA For 2022


We used science and data to determine which neighborhoods in Hayward are home to the 1%.

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Richest Neighborhoods In Hayward

Welcome to the land of the 1%. Where you'll find lawyers, and doctors, and business executives. And while they probably aren't made of ticky tacky, they are definitely made of money.

These are the wealthiest neighborhoods that Hayward has to offer. Where houses go for over 2.78x the national median and household incomes are 1.91x the national median.

But where exactly in Hayward do the richest of the rich people live? That would be Hayward Highland where the median income is a cool $105,076.

Here's a look at the top 10 richest neighborhoods in Hayward out of 13 for 2022.

The Richest Neighborhoods In Hayward For 2022

  1. Hayward Highland (Homes)
  2. Fairway Park (Homes)
  3. Mt Eden (Homes)
  4. Upper B Street (Homes)
  5. Glen Eden (Homes)

What's the richest neighborhood to live in Hayward for 2022? According to the most recent census data, Hayward Highland looks to be the richest Hayward neighborhood to live in.

Summing up the median income of those 10 neighborhoods adds up to $783,231. And that my friend, is more 0s than most of us will see in our bank account for a long, long time -- if we ever get that lucky. Continue on to find where your neighborhood ranks amongst the richest in Hayward. Once you're done, you can look at the bottom of the story for a complete chart of every neighborhood we looked at from richest to poorest.

For more Hayward reading, check out the best neighborhoods in Hayward and the worst neighborhoods in Hayward. Or, for living around Hayward, out the best Hayward suburbs and the worst Hayward suburbs.

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Richst Neighborhoods In Hayward For 2022 By Median Income

Rank Neighborhood Median Household Income<
1 Hayward Highland $105,076
2 Fairway Park $99,310
3 Mt Eden $98,776
4 Upper B Street $76,528
5 Glen Eden $71,221
6 Mission-Garin $70,223
7 Whitman-Mocine $69,792
8 Longwood-Winton Grove $65,686
9 Burbank $64,566
10 Mission-Foothill $62,053
11 Harder-Tennyson $59,298
12 Jackson Triangle $54,335
13 North Hayward $52,269

How We Determined The Wealthiest Neighborhoods In Hayward For 2022

Every city has it's best neighborhoods -- where everyone wants to live -- and the worst neighborhoods -- where no one wants to live. And then you have the wealthiest neighborhoods, where no one can afford to live.

And by no one, we really mean you because there's always someone richer than you.

How do you quantify richer than you? We looked at one simple criterion:

Which neighborhoods have the highest median income?

Using census and extrapolated BLS data, we ranked every neighborhood based on income levels.

We ranked every neighborhood in Hayward by median income from highest to lowest. The neighborhood with the highest median income, Hayward Highland, was named the richest neighborhood in Hayward.

The poorest neighborhood? That would be North Hayward.

Now a look at how all the neighborhoods in Hayward ranked.

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Editor's Note: We updated this article for 2022. This is our ninth time ranking the richest neighborhoods to live in Hayward.

About Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar has been in the real estate business for almost ten years now. He originally worked for Movoto Real Estate as the director of marketing before founding HomeSnacks.

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