Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Albany, CA

Albany is a small city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northwestern Alameda County, bordered by Berkeley to the south and east and by El Cerrito and Richmond to the north.

Albany's land was part of Rancho San Antonio, granted to the Peralta family in 1820, and the Ohlone people lived along Cerrito Creek at the base of Albany Hill long before Spanish settlement.

Albany exists because of a garbage fight: in 1908 a group of local women, armed with two shotguns and a twenty-two-caliber rifle, confronted Berkeley's horse-drawn garbage wagons near San Pablo Avenue and Buchanan Street and turned them away, and residents soon voted to incorporate as the City of Ocean View on September 22, 1908.

In 1909 voters renamed the city Albany by a vote of 38 to 6, in honor of Albany, New York, the birthplace of the city's first mayor, Frank Roberts.

Albany had a population of 20,271 at the 2020 census, packed into about 1.8 square miles, giving it a density of more than 11,300 people per square mile.

Albany has about 7,631 households averaging 2.44 people each, and only about 53.1% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Albany homes are among the priciest in the East Bay, with a median owner-occupied home value of about $1,202,200.

Albany Hill, a 338-foot landmark once called Cerrito de San Antonio by the Peralta family, is a city park whose land Albany acquired in 1973, and the neighboring city of El Cerrito is named after the hill's original Spanish name.

The Albany Bulb, a former garbage landfill jutting into San Francisco Bay, became famous as an informal art colony and is now being folded into the Eastshore State Park shoreline.

The University of California, Berkeley owns University Village in Albany, a large housing complex used mainly for students with families.