Our base is San Bruno. From there it's a short drive to most of the Peninsula and San Francisco, and a longer one to Palo Alto, Mountain View, Oakland and Dublin.
Our base is San Bruno. From there it's a short drive to most of the Peninsula and the city, and a longer one to Palo Alto, Mountain View, Oakland and Dublin. Road miles from San Bruno next to each city.
12.5 road miles from San Bruno, about 19 min. San Francisco's housing is old and dense: the median unit was built in 1946, 45.2% date from 1939 or earlier, and 49.2% sit in buildings of five or more units. Summer fog and cool marine air hang longest on the ocean side.
2.8 road miles from San Bruno, about 6 min. South San Francisco's median housing unit dates to 1965, the 1950s were its busiest building decade, and 58.5% of units are single-family detached. Liquefaction potential runs through most of the lowlands, and Westborough and Sign Hill sit on hillsides.
6.9 road miles from San Bruno, about 11 min. About 78.3% of Daly City's 35,922 housing units predate 1980. Westlake's homes are generally split-level; in Serramonte and Southern Hills the typical house puts the living area over a two-car garage; east of I-280 the stock is older and more mixed.
Our home base. The 1950s were San Bruno's biggest building decade, with 29.3% of today's housing units, and 80.4% predate 1980. The older eastern half is a flat street grid; the newer western half climbs steep hills in curving subdivisions.
6.5 road miles from San Bruno, about 13 min. Pacifica is mostly single-family houses, and most went up between the 1940s and the 1970s; the median home dates to 1966. Fog, wet winters and about 30 inches of rain a year give it a climate closer to the Pacific Northwest's.
2.1 road miles from San Bruno, about 4 min. Millbrae grew in phases from the early 1900s into the 1970s; 76.7% of its homes predate 1980, and nearly a third are in buildings of five or more units. The whole city lies inside SFO's Airport Influence Area.
5.2 road miles from San Bruno, about 10 min. Burlingame's older neighborhoods are Craftsman, Tudor and Mediterranean homes from the 1910s and 1920s, with postwar ranch and Eichler homes to the north; 29.6% of units predate 1940, and 43.5% are in buildings of five or more units.
4.9 road miles from San Bruno, about 9 min. Hillsborough is almost entirely detached single-family homes (98.5%), with a half-acre minimum lot and no commercial or industrial uses. The median home dates to 1970, and many properties lie within the Wildland Urban Interface.
10.2 road miles from San Bruno, about 16 min. San Mateo's houses include San Mateo Park, laid out from 1902, 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival streets and postwar tracts such as Hillsdale and Shoreview. The median home was built in 1965, and filled baylands in the east are prone to settlement.
15.2 road miles from San Bruno, about 22 min. The City calls Redwood City the oldest city on the Peninsula, and Stambaugh-Heller has homes from the mid-1800s. The median home dates to 1968, and Redwood Shores sits on reclaimed bay marsh behind a large levee system.
18.3 road miles from San Bruno, about 27 min. Atherton is almost entirely detached single-family homes (97.3% of units), zoned for minimum lots of a third of an acre to an acre, with no commercial land. The median home dates to 1960, and 17.2% of units were built in 1939 or earlier.
20.0 road miles from San Bruno, about 30 min. Menlo Park's homes include 1925 bungalows in Allied Arts/Stanford Park, 1930s and 1940s ranch houses in Felton Gables and 1960s Sharon Heights, with a median build year of 1964. More than 60 percent of Belle Haven is in a FEMA flood hazard area.
21.7 road miles from San Bruno, about 31 min. Palo Alto's housing is mostly older: about 70% of its 29,241 units were built before 1980, with the 1950s the busiest decade. Some 2,700 are Eichlers on concrete slabs, and Professorville holds shingle and clapboard houses from the 1890s to 1929.
26.6 road miles from San Bruno, about 36 min. Most Mountain View housing is attached: 49.0% of units are in buildings with five or more units and 14.2% are single-family attached, and 61.4% of homes are rented. About 60.1% were built before 1980.
22.0 road miles from San Bruno, about 33 min. Oakland's housing is old: 37.2% of its 191,713 units were built in 1939 or earlier, and the median year built is 1953. West Oakland keeps Victorian-era houses from the 1870s, and many hill homes were built stepping down steep slopes.
35.2 road miles from San Bruno, about 49 min. Dublin's housing is young: the median home was built in 2004, and the 2010s were the busiest building decade. The older neighborhoods began with Volk-McLain's San Ramon Village tracts in the early 1960s, and eastern Dublin has grown quickly over the past 15 years.
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