Redwood Shores
A master-planned lagoon community built around Oracle and Electronic Arts, with lagoon-front homes and a homeowners association that keeps it polished.
Redwood Shores was built up from reclaimed marshland along San Francisco Bay in the 1960s, much like its neighbor Foster City. Today it's a master-planned community of lagoons, parks, and waterfront homes, technically part of Redwood City but geographically separated from the rest of the city, with its own distinct feel.
The community is genuinely well kept. The Redwood Shores Owners Association, an umbrella HOA that's overseen the area's residential developments since 1981, maintains the streets, trails, and lagoon frontage across the neighborhood's roughly two dozen individual HOAs, which is part of why the area still looks so uniformly polished decades after most of it was built.
Redwood Shores is also a major employment center. Electronic Arts is still headquartered at 209 Redwood Shores Parkway, and Oracle's sprawling lagoon-front campus remains a major presence here even after the company moved its global corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas in 2020. Other companies with a footprint in the area have included Qualys, Zuora, and Crystal Dynamics. Employees and residents alike make use of the trails that wind around the lagoons and office campuses.
Shopping and dining are modest but convenient, anchored by The Marketplace at Redwood Shores, with easy freeway access to more options in nearby San Carlos and Belmont. Housing ranges from condos and townhomes to single-family homes in neighborhoods like Sandpiper Lagoon, Beacon Shores, and The Preserve, many with private docks and direct lagoon access.
Redwood Shores is a distinct market from the rest of Redwood City, more planned, more HOA-governed, and often more about the lifestyle around the water than the house itself. I bring the same approach here that's guided my Peninsula clients since 2004: careful preparation, honest advice, and a clear sense of how lagoon access, HOA rules, and proximity to the tech campuses affect value. If you're weighing Redwood Shores against Foster City or San Carlos, I'm glad to help you think it through.
-Caroline
11,630 people live in Redwood Shores, where the median age is 43 and the average individual income is $109,996. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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There's plenty to do around Redwood Shores, including shopping, dining, nightlife, parks, and more. Data provided by Walk Score and Yelp.
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Redwood Shores has 4,625 households, with an average household size of 3. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s what the people living in Redwood Shores do for work — and how long it takes them to get there. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 11,630 people call Redwood Shores home. The population density is 7,884 and the largest age group is Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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