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Oakland
Mayor Barbara Lee · Democratic · in office since May 20, 2025
Barbara Lee
Mayor of Oakland, CA · Democratic · since May 20, 2025
City No.
#45
by population
| Government form | Strong mayor |
| Performance scoring | In development |
| Population | 440,838 |
As a strong-mayor city, Oakland's mayor will receive a full performance score — city outcome trends vs. peer cities in the same population tier — once those metrics clear verification.
City outcome data (unemployment, crime, cost of living and more) is in the verification pipeline. We publish numbers only after they clear it. Methodology
Oakland sits in CA, whose governor Gavin Newsom holds a scored statewide record (No. 6 of 29). State outcomes are not the mayor’s grade — a city is not a state — but they’re the nearest verified context today.