Los Altos (;
Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in
Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259, as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together ...
,
California
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, in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. The population was 31,625 according to the
2020 census.
Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, Los Altos is now an affluent
bedroom community on the western edge of Silicon Valley, serving as a major source of commuters to other parts of Silicon Valley. Los Altos strictly limits commercial zones to the downtown area and small shopping and office parks lining
Foothill Expressway and
El Camino Real.
History
The area was originally called "Banks and Braes".
Paul Shoup, an executive of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and his colleagues formed the Altos Land Company in 1906 and started the development of Los Altos. The company acquired of land from Sarah Winchester. Shoup wanted to link Palo Alto and Los Gatos by making Los Altos a commuter town. It continued a train-a-day operation to and from San Francisco.
In 1908, Southern Pacific Railroad began running steam train service through Los Altos (April 19, 1908) with five trains per day. Two freight cars served as a train depot. Also, the first commercial building, Eschenbruecher's Hardware, was built in downtown.
In 1913, the
craftsman-style Los Altos train station was built at 288 First Street.
By 1949, many residents were dissatisfied with the zoning policy of Santa Clara County, and there was a constant threat of annexation by neighboring
Palo Alto and
Mountain View,
so they decided to incorporate. Los Altos became the eleventh city in Santa Clara County on December 1, 1952.
Train service ceased operation in January 1964, and the train track became Foothill Expressway.
Los Altos may have a legitimate claim to having the first scientifically designed
sound baffle
A sound baffle is a construction or device which reduces the strength (level) of airborne sound. Sound baffles are a fundamental tool of noise mitigation, the practice of minimizing noise pollution or reverberation. An important type of sound b ...
in 1970. Santa Clara County undertook a seminal study to calculate the effects of alternate
soundwall
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designs along Foothill Expressway. The resulting wall brought about the predicted reduction of seven to ten decibels in
noise pollution
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levels experienced by adjacent homes.
In 1976,
Apple
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co-founders
Steve Jobs
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and
Steve Wozniak built the first 50
Apple I
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computers in Jobs's garage in Los Altos.
In 2004, landlord Judy Fusco rented her Los Altos home, later known as "Casa Facebook", to
Mark Zuckerberg; there, he and a few other associates scaled
Facebook
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from 200,000 members to 2.5 million.
On April 15, 2021, Los Altos became home to the world's first consumer
flying car showroom.
Earthquakes
Los Altos is near the
San Andreas Fault
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and therefore subject to earthquakes.
*
1906 San Francisco earthquake – Although Los Altos was hit extremely hard (VIII on the intensity level), the main local effort was to help rebuild nearby
Santa Cruz, which was nearly destroyed.
*1989 – On October 17, Los Altos experienced the
Loma Prieta earthquake, but was spared major damage. Los Altos and its churches combined efforts to clean up hard-hit areas such as
Watsonville
Watsonville is a city in Santa Cruz County, California, located in the Monterey Bay Area of the Central Coast of California. The population was 52,590 according to the 2020 census. Predominantly Latino and Democratic, Watsonville is a self- ...
and Santa Cruz.
Geography
Los Altos is bordered by
Los Altos Hills to the west,
Palo Alto to the west and northwest,
Mountain View to the northwest and northeast,
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the nort ...
to the east, and
Cupertino
Cupertino ( ) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 57,82 ...
to the southeast.
Los Altos is crossed by three creeks that flow north to San Francisco Bay,
Adobe Creek on its western boundary,
Stevens Creek on its eastern boundary and
Permanente Creek in the middle.
Hale Creek is tributary to Permanente Creek, and Permanente Creek is now largely diverted to Stevens Creek by a diversion channel. All three creeks originate on the flanks of
Black Mountain.
Demographics
2010s
The
2010 United States Census
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reported that Los Altos had a population of 28,976. The
population density
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was people per square mile (/km
2). The racial makeup of Los Altos was 20,459 (70.6%)
White
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, 148 (0.5%)
African American
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, 48 (0.2%)
Native American, 6,815 (23.5%)
Asian, 59 (0.2%)
Pacific Islander
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, 195 (0.7%) from
other races, and 1,252 (4.3%) from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...
or
Latino of any race were 1,132 persons (3.9%).
The Census reported that 28,749 people (99.2% of the population) lived in households, 34 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 193 (0.7%) were institutionalized.
There were 10,745 households, out of which 4,067 (37.9%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 7,476 (69.6%) were
opposite-sex married couples living together, 599 (5.6%) had a female householder with no husband present, 228 (2.1%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 199 (1.9%)
unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 55 (0.5%)
same-sex married couples or partnerships. 2,086 households (19.4%) were made up of individuals, and 1,228 (11.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68. There were 8,303
families (77.3% of all households); the average family size was 3.08.
The age distribution of the population consisted of 7,560 people (26.1%) under the age of 18, 1,006 people (3.5%) aged 18 to 24, 5,273 people (18.2%) aged 25 to 44, 9,353 people (32.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 5,784 people (20.0%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 46.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.9 males.
There were 11,204 housing units at an average density of per square mile (/km
2), of which 9,002 (83.8%) were owner-occupied, and 1,743 (16.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.0%. 24,669 people (85.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 4,080 people (14.1%) lived in rental housing units.
The median household income of Los Altos for 2013–2017 was $208,309. The average home listing price in 2014 was $1.96 million. In 2017, ''
Forbes
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'' ranked Los Altos (94022 and 94024) as the 3rd and 48th most expensive ZIP codes in the United States with median home prices of $7,755,000 and $3,431,615, respectively. In 2018, data from the
American Community Survey revealed that Los Altos was the fifth wealthiest city in the United States.
2000
As of the census
of 2000, there were 27,693 people, 10,462 households, and 8,024 families residing in the city. The population density was people per square mile (/km
2). There were 10,727 housing units at an average density of per square mile (/km
2). The racial makeup of the city was 80.35%
White
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, 15.42%
Asian, 0.47%
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
, 0.17%
Native American, 0.16%
Pacific Islander
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, 0.66% from
other races, and 2.44% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...
or
Latino residents of any race constituted 3.76% of the population.
Of 10,462 households, 33.6% had minor children living with them, 69.4% were married couples living together, 5.4% had a female head with no husband present, and 23.3% were non-families. 18.7% were singles including 9.8% 65 or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 2.98.
The median age was 44 years, much higher than the 35.3 national figure. 23.7% were under 18, 3.5% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 29.1% from 45 to 64, and 19.3% were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females, there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.0 males.
1930
Approximately 2,900 people would have considered themselves a resident of Los Altos.
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Housing costs
Los Altos strives to maintain a semi-rural atmosphere. Los Altos has few sidewalks except in commercial zones and along arterial roads. Minimum lot size for most residential housing is one-quarter of an acre. Most streets have broad dirt
shoulders and little or no street lighting. The civic center sits in the middle of an
orchard, a remnant of those that once covered the area. The downtown is a triangle with arterials and collector streets on all sides that enable most through traffic to bypass
Main Street.
Many Los Altos homes fetch $2 million and higher, putting the city (along with neighboring Los Altos Hills, with which it shares ZIP codes) at numbers 24 and 28 on Forbes' "Most Expensive ZIP Codes in America" list in 2007. In 2015, ''
Forbes
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'' placed Los Altos (
ZIP codes 94022 and 94024) as the 11th and 57th most expensive ZIP codes in the United States, behind such cities as
Atherton, California and
Sagaponack, New York
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Sagaponack is also the name of a popular seafood re ...
. For the 94022 ZIP code, which includes parts of
Los Altos Hills, California the median home price is $4.9 million with an average of 120 days on the market. For the 94024 ZIP code, the median home price is $2.8 million with an average of 36 days on the market.
Economy
Since the mid-1990s, downtown Los Altos has experienced mild economic difficulties due to competition from nearby shopping centers and chain stores, as well as its lack of a hotel or
movie theater. Revitalizing downtown is a major issue in city politics.
Top employers
According to the City's 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:
Government
In the
California State Legislature, Los Altos is in , and in .
In the
United States House of Representatives
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, Los Altos is in .
Education
Public
Primary and middle school students attend schools in the
Los Altos School District, the
Cupertino Union School District
The Cupertino Union School District (abbreviated as CUSD) is a school district in Santa Clara County, California. CUSD's jurisdiction covers the communities of Cupertino, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Saratoga, and Los Altos. CUSD operat ...
, or
Bullis Charter School
Bullis Charter School (BCS) is a public charter school in Los Altos, California, USA, for grades kindergarten through eighth. As the Santa Clara County Office of Education charters the school, BCS operates independently of the Los Altos School Dis ...
(K–8). The Los Altos School District has one of the highest average
API scores in California and includes seven elementary schools in the Los Altos–Mountain View area.
Local residents generally attend high school in one of two public school districts:
Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
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or
Fremont Union High School District.
All of the public schools are highly regarded, and many graduates of Los Altos-area high schools continue their education at well-known universities.
Private
Los Altos is also served by highly regarded private and religious schools. St. Nicholas School, St. Simon School, Miramonte Elementary School, (JrK–8th) Canterbury Christian School (K–6th), the Lower and Middle Campuses (K–6th) of
Pinewood School, The School for Independent Learners, and the lower school campus of the
Waldorf School of the Peninsula are located within city limits. Others nearby include
St. Francis High School (Mountain View), Mountain View Academy, and The King's Academy (Sunnyvale). Other schools farther away with students from Los Altos include
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton
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,
Mitty High School,
Menlo School,
Woodside Priory School
Woodside Priory School (commonly known as The Priory) is an independent, co-educational, Benedictine Catholic, college-preparatory, day and boarding school in Portola Valley, California, United States. It is located within the Roman Catholic A ...
,
Castilleja School
Castilleja School is an independent school for girls in grades six through twelve, located in Palo Alto, California. Castilleja is the only non-sectarian all-girls middle and high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. The faculty consists of appro ...
,
The Harker School, and
Bellarmine College Preparatory.
Public libraries
Santa Clara County Library operates the Los Altos Library and the Woodland Branch Library in Los Altos.
Parks and conservation
Adobe Creek flows through Redwood Grove, a nature preserve off University Avenue in Los Altos purchased by the city in 1974. In October 2009 Los Altos contracted with
Acterra to remove non-native plants and revitalize the redwood, oak woodland, riparian and grassland ecosystems by installing native plants, improving soil conditions, and creating habitat for wildlife such as bird houses and native bee boxes. The coast redwoods (''
Sequoia sempervirens'') were transplanted by the Halsey family from a location on Summit Road in the
Santa Cruz Mountains and replaced the native willows. The historic Halsey House, built in the late 1920s by Theodore and Emma Halsey, is a good example of Spanish Revival architecture. The city designated Halsey House a local landmark in 1981 and until recently it housed the Florence Fava collection of Coastanoan or
Ohlone Indian artifacts from a nearby archeological excavation in Los Altos Hills (now moved to the Los Altos History House). On June 16, 2010, the Los Altos City Council finalized the purchase of of creekside property from Delbert and Marlene Beumer, who wanted to provide a safe pathway connecting Shoup Park and Redwood Grove.
Steelhead trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') occurred historically in Adobe Creek. However, tidal gates at the mouth of Adobe Creek as well as culverts at the El Camino Real and Interstate 280 overpasses probably preclude the passage of migrating salmonids, even though the reaches upstream from
Hidden Villa
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in
Los Altos Hills have been judged excellent trout habitat.
Sports
Los Altos has a variety of youth-oriented sports organizations, programs, and after-school activities. Some examples include:
*The Mountain View Los Altos Soccer Club (MVLASC) has provided competitive soccer for the
MVLA community since 1972. It is a member of the California Youth Soccer Association – North (Cal North Soccer) and plays in the Foothill Youth Soccer League. The club has won 14 State Championships and two National Championships.
*Los Altos–Mountain View Pony Baseball is for boys and girls aged 5 to 19. It is the largest youth baseball program in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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, and a chartered league of PONY Baseball, Inc.
*West Valley
Pop Warner
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offers cheerleading and football programs to local youth.
*The El Camino
YMCA
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Youth Basketball League teaches basic basketball skills and the YMCA's core values.
Media
The ''Los Altos Town Crier'', a weekly, is the primary newspaper for the town, "serving the Hometown of Silicon Valley since 1947." The ''
San Jose Mercury News'' is the primary daily newspaper serving the town, delivering a Peninsula Section to Los Altans and locations north in lieu of the Local section delivered to those in San Jose and other communities closer to San Jose.
Notable people
*
Allan Bakke, student who challenged the practice of affirmative action in the 1978 landmark Supreme Court decision ''
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke''
*
Sergey Brin, co-founder of
Google
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*
The Chocolate Watchband, garage-rock band formed in 1965
*
Alan Cranston, former United States Senator from California, Senate Majority Whip, Senate Minority Whip, Controller of California, and member of the
Keating Five
*
Lorrie Fair
Lorraine Ming Fair (born August 5, 1978) is a retired American professional soccer midfielder who was a member of the World Cup Champion United States national soccer team. Over the span of ten years, she was a part of one World Cup Team and ...
, retired soccer player
*
Jon M. Chu
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, director, producer and screenwriter. Director of 2018's
Crazy Rich Asians
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*
Dennis "Thresh" Fong, businessman and professional gamer of the
''Quake'' series
*
Leslie Fu,
YouTube
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streamer
*
Charles Geschke, co-founder of
Adobe Systems
*
Jesse Grant, son of the 18th President of the United States,
Ulysses S. Grant
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*
Andrew Grove, co-founder and former CEO of
Intel
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*
John Lee Hooker, world-renowned blues guitarist, died at his home in Los Altos on June 21, 2001.
*
Juli Inkster, LPGA golfer
*
Steve Jobs
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, co-founder of
Apple Inc.
*
Andrew L. Lewis, US Navy Vice-Admiral and Commander,
United States Second Fleet
*
Janet Lewis, author and poet, died at her home in Los Altos at the age of 99 on December 1, 1998.
*
William E. Moerner, 2014 recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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*
Robert Noyce, co-founder of
Fairchild Semiconductor and
Intel Corporation
*
Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer of
Google
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.
*
Michele Raffin Michele Raffin is an American aviculturist, writer, and founder of Pandemonium Aviaries, a non-profit organization in Los Altos, California that is one of the largest exotic bird sanctuaries in the United States. Pandemonium Aviaries is now a lead ...
, writer and founder of Pandemonium Aviaries
*
Mary G. Ross
Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908 – April 29, 2008) was the first known Native American female engineer, and the first female engineer in the history of Lockheed. She was one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Sku ...
, the first
Native American female engineer
*
General Oliver P. Smith, served as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps and Commanding General of the 1st Marine Division during the Inchon Landings and Chosin Reservoir Campaign of the Korean War.
*
Shirley Temple, famous actress and child actress
*
Alejandro Toledo, 63rd President of Peru
*
John Edward Walker, California Impressionist painter, lived in Los Altos in the 1920s.
*
John Warnock, co-founder of
Adobe Systems
*
Yvor Winters, California poet, 34-year resident from 1934.
*
Ed Zschau
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, former congressman for California's
12th district
Sister cities
Los Altos had four
sister cities, as designated by
Sister Cities International
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:
*
Bendigo, Australia
*
Syktyvkar, Russia
*
Shilin, Taiwan
*
Rustington, England
The program was run by the non-profit Los Altos Sister Cities, Inc., founded in 1988. That organization later decided to cease its participation and is now dissolved. Los Altos no longer participates in the sister cities program.
References
External links
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