Assumption Parish, San Leandro

Local descriptions place Assumption Parish between Interstate 580 and East 14th Street, running from Estudillo Avenue south to about 140th Avenue. East 14th Street forms a busy corridor on the west side, and the freeway runs along the east side. As with the rest of San Leandro, neighborhood edges vary a little from one description to the next.

At a glance: In the 12 months through September 2026, the median sale price of a single-family home in Assumption Parish was $897,500, across 24 sales. Homes sold for about 107.9% of their list price, and the middle sale took 8 days on the market.

Most of the homes date from the late 1940s and the 1950s, when much of San Leandro was built. The City of San Leandro's General Plan notes that buildings from 1940 to 1960 make up about half of the city's housing stock, and that its postwar subdivisions have matured into comfortable, established neighborhoods. Assumption Parish is one of the clearest examples: block after block of homes from the same era, now with seventy-plus years of mature trees and landscaping around them.

The City's plan also points out that homes of this age are old enough to count as potentially historic under state and federal rules, though few would ever be designated as landmarks. For a buyer, that mostly means the homes are older than they look, and deserve the same careful look as any other older house.

Assumption School, a private school for kindergarten through grade 8 on 136th Avenue, shares the neighborhood's name. San Leandro High School, on Bancroft Avenue, is in the neighborhood too, and Jefferson Elementary School on Bancroft Avenue and McKinley Elementary School on East 14th Street are close by. The public schools are part of the San Leandro Unified School District. School boundaries don't follow neighborhood names, so check the district's boundary map for any address you're considering. The San Leandro page lists the public and private schools across the city.

Interstate 580 runs right along the neighborhood's east side, and Interstate 880 is across town to the west. AC Transit buses run along East 14th Street, and both of San Leandro's BART stations, Downtown San Leandro and Bay Fair, are a short drive away.

Buyers who look at Assumption Parish are usually drawn to its single-story ranch homes, its mature trees, and its quick access to Interstate 580, East 14th Street, and downtown San Leandro.

Tanja Odzak knows what to check in a postwar home, from past additions to the electrical panel, and how a San Leandro sale works. If you're weighing a move to Assumption Parish, that's worth a conversation.