Fremont · ZIP 94539

Mission Valley, Fremont.

One of the four elementary attendance areas that feed Mission San Jose High, on flatter ground and generally at a lower entry price than the hillside addresses in the same school chain.

Market at a glance

ZIP 94539, by the numbers

Single-family median
$2,400,000
249 sales · 13 days
Year over year
down 2.1%
vs. the prior 12 months
Price per sq ft
$1,196
Single-family
Sale to list
102.6%
vs. asking price
Condo / townhome median
$1,020,000
101 sales · 20 days
ZIP
94539
Fremont, Alameda County

Source: Bay East / Paragon MLS closed sales for ZIP 94539, July 2025 to July 2026, compared against the twelve months before that. Single-family means detached; condo / townhome means attached. These are medians for the whole ZIP code, not for the neighborhood alone, because the MLS does not carry a neighborhood field. Medians move with the mix of homes that happened to sell and are not the change in value of any one home. Verify specifics for any individual property.

Schools

One of four, and the reason people move here

Mission Valley Elementary is one of the four schools in the Mission San Jose High attendance area, alongside Chadbourne, Gomes and Mission San Jose Elementary. The chain is Mission Valley Elementary, then Hopkins Middle School, then Mission San Jose High.

Verified August 18, 2026 against the Fremont Unified School District attendance-boundary maps and FUSD’s own school descriptions. Attendance areas can change, and FUSD notes that students “may be placed outside their home school based on availability,” while immersion and magnet programs follow their own rules. Confirm your specific address with FUSD’s official school locator before relying on any school assignment. Bela Realty does not guarantee school placement.

Character

The quieter side of the attendance area

Mission Valley runs along the corridor below the Mission San Jose hills. The housing stock leans toward mid-century single-family homes on interior streets and cul-de-sacs, generally on flatter lots than the hillside sections to the east, and typically at a lower entry price than the hill addresses inside the same attendance area.

That combination is the whole argument for the neighborhood: the same Hopkins and Mission San Jose High assignment, without the hillside premium. It is also why inventory here moves quickly when it is priced correctly.

Across ZIP 94539 as a whole, single-family homes closed at a median of $2,400,000 over the last twelve months, down 2.1% year over year, at 102.6% of asking price.

Getting to work

What the commute actually looks like

Fremont sits between two job markets, and which one you work in changes which part of town suits you. The structural facts, not estimates:

Peak-hour driving times vary far too much to publish honestly. For an actual door-to-door estimate at the time you would travel, use 511.org, the Bay Area’s official transportation information service.

Questions we get

Answered

Does Mission Valley feed Mission San Jose High School?

Yes. Mission Valley Elementary feeds Hopkins Middle School, and Hopkins feeds Mission San Jose High. It is one of exactly four elementary schools in that attendance area.

How is Mission Valley different from Mission San Jose?

They share the same middle school and high school. Mission Valley sits on flatter ground along the corridor below the hills, with mostly mid-century single-family housing, and generally entails a lower entry price than comparable hillside addresses in the same attendance area.

What is the market like in Mission Valley?

Across ZIP 94539, single-family homes closed at a median of $2,400,000 over the twelve months to July 2026, down 2.1% year over year, at 102.6% of asking price in a median 13 days.

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