Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Fairview, CA

Fairview is a census-designated place in unincorporated Alameda County, a hilly East Bay community between Hayward and Castro Valley whose residents have repeatedly resisted annexation by the city of Hayward.

Fairview's hills were the homeland of the Chochenyo-speaking Muwekma Ohlone people, and in 1843 the land became part of Rancho San Lorenzo, a Mexican land grant to Guillermo Castro that covered today's Hayward, Castro Valley, and San Lorenzo.

Fairview's population was 11,341 at the 2020 census, up from 10,003 in 2010, and the community was first counted as a census-designated place in the 1990 census.

Fairview has 3,756 households with an average size of 2.98 people, about 77% of its homes are owner-occupied, and its median household income is a high $148,801.

Lone Tree Cemetery, established in 1868, stands in Fairview and holds the graves of William Dutton Hayward, the man Hayward is named for, 1955 Indianapolis 500 winner Bob Sweikert, and Wizard of Oz actor Charlie Becker - its Memorial Day observance has run continuously since 1903.

The Hayward Fault Zone runs directly through the Fairview hills, and the great 1868 Hayward earthquake, estimated at magnitude 6.8 to 7.0, destroyed the Alameda County Courthouse and reshaped settlement across the East Bay.

Fairview's terrain climbs from about 200 feet near Don Castro Regional Recreation Area to nearly 1,100 feet along Fairview Avenue, mixing suburban streets with multi-acre rural properties.

Fairview is protected by its own Fairview Fire Protection District, a small independent district formed in 1938 that has contracted its operations to the Hayward Fire Department since 1993.

Fairview is notably international - the Census Bureau estimated 26.5% of its residents were foreign-born in 2023.

Fairview locals take in views and open space at parks such as Lakeridge Park, and the community sits just east of the East Bay hills' vast regional parklands.