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About Los Altos
City in California, United StatesLos Altos ( ; Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 31,625 according to the 2020 census. Most of the city's growth took place between 1950 and 1980. Originally an agricultural town with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, Los Altos is a 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.
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How Los Altos ranks
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Housing in Los Altos
The typical Los Altos home is worth about $4,531,000, up 8.2% in a year, 493% above the California typical home.
A strong seller's market
Safety in Los Altos
Safety Grade B+
Los Altos reports less crime per resident than 65% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade.
Schools in Los Altos
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The public schools Los Altos’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 99% 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.
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