Lake Forest
What’s happening
Weather
Forecast →Upcoming events
Put the next local happening — a market, a meeting, a concert — on the map.
Local news
Headlines via Google News · Articles belong to their publishers.
The Lake Forest album
Outdoors in Lake Forest
Parks & trails →Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
About Lake Forest
City in California, United StatesLake Forest is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 85,858 at the 2020 census. Lake Forest incorporated as a city on December 20, 1991. Before incorporation, the community had been known as El Toro (in Spanish, "the bull"). In 2000, Lake Forest voted to expand its city limits to include the master-planned developments of Foothill Ranch and Portola Hills. This expansion brought new homes and commercial centers to the city's northeastern boundary. Lake Forest has two lakes from which the city gets its name. The lakes are man-made, and condominiums and custom homes ranging from large to small line their shores. Neighborhood associations manage the lakes (Lake …
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
How Lake Forest ranks
All →Town numbers
Housing in Lake Forest
The typical Lake Forest home is worth about $1,179,000, up 0.7% in a year, 54% above the California typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Lake Forest
Safety Grade B
Lake Forest reports less crime per resident than 63% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Health in Lake Forest
Compared with California
of 32 measures CDC estimates. The other 11 are too close to call.
What stands out
Care nearby
Schools in Lake Forest
All Lake Forest schools →School Grade A
The public schools Lake Forest’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 87% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within CA. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Lake Forest is
Explore map →
Location map