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Median real estate price in the Town Center of Los Altos Hills is $4,742,976, which is more expensive than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in California and 100.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Los Altos Hills Town Center is currently $3,788, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 91.5% of the neighborhoods in California.
Los Altos Hills Town Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Los Altos Hills, California.
Real estate in the Town Center of Los Altos Hills, CA is primarily made up of large (four, five or more bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Town Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Los Altos Hills Town Center are 6.7%, which is lower than one will find in 63.2% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Los Altos Hills Town Center is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Los Altos Hills, the Town Center neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 0.1% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe.
In addition, a majority of the adults in the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for California by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in California. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children, active retirees and urban sophisticates.
Also, if knowledge is power, then imagine the cumulative power of one neighborhood where many of the adults have earned an advanced degree, such as a Masters, law degree, medical degree, or even a Ph.D. This is certainly the case in the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood, where 52.6% have earned an advanced degree. Compare that to the average neighborhood in America, where just 8.4% of adults have completed a post-graduate degree, and you can see why this neighborhood is a stand out. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher rate of adults with an advanced degree than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Finally, astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
The Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood has a higher proportion of its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In fact, 76.9% of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what this neighborhood is about.
In the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 18.7% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.
Also, if your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 4.5% of residents in the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 97.0% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
One way that the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood really stands out, is that it has more large 4, 5, or additional bedroom homes and real estate than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America. When you walk or drive around this neighborhood, you'll instantly notice the size of the homes here which definitely makes a strong visual statement.
In addition, the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 97.1% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood has more Scottish and Asian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 29.2% have Asian ancestry.
Los Altos Hills Town Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Chinese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Town Center neighborhood in Los Altos Hills are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 73.4% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood, 76.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 12.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (6.0%), and 5.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Langs. of India and Korean.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the Town Center neighborhood in Los Altos Hills, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (29.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.7%), among others. In addition, 28.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Los Altos Hills Town Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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44 Vital Statistics. 8 Condition Alerts found.
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Raw data sources: American Community Survey, U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Education, 50 state departments of education, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 18,000+ local law enforcement agencies, Federal Housing Finance Agency, U.S. Geological Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Date(s) & Update Frequency: 2018 (latest available). Updated annually. Please note: Unemployment data updated November 2020.
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136 Vital Statistics. 2 Condition Alerts found.
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67 Vital Statistics. 5 Condition Alerts found.
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California | 83 |
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65 Vital Statistics. 30 Condition Alerts found.
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School Details | Grades | Quality Rating Compared to CA* | Quality Rating Compared to Nation* |
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Alta Vista High School
1325 Bryant Ave. Mountain View, CA 94040 |
09-12 | ||
Los Altos High School
201 Almond Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022 |
09-12 | ||
Mountain View High School
3535 Truman Ave. Mountain View, CA 94040 |
09-12 | ||
* 10 is highest |
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Proficiency in Reading and Math | 0.101011101001110 | 0.101011101001110 |
Proficiency in Reading | 0.101011101001110 | 0.101011101001110 |
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School Details | Grades | Quality Rating Compared to CA* | Quality Rating Compared to Nation* |
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Almond Elementary School
550 Almond Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022 |
KG-06 | ||
Ardis G. Egan Junior High School
100 W. Portola Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022 |
07-08 | ||
Covington Elementary School
205 Covington Rd. Los Altos, CA 94024 |
KG-06 | ||
Gardner Bullis Elementary School
25890 Fremont Rd. Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 |
KG-06 | ||
Georgina P. Blach Junior High School
1120 Covington Rd. Los Altos, CA 94024 |
07-08 | ||
Lasd Preschool School
201 Covington Rd. Los Altos, CA 94024 |
M-M | ||
Loyola Elementary School
770 Berry Ave. Los Altos, CA 94024 |
KG-06 | ||
Oak Avenue Elementary School
1501 Oak Ave. Los Altos, CA 94024 |
KG-06 | ||
Santa Rita Elementary School
700 Los Altos Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022 |
KG-06 | ||
Springer Elementary School
1120 Rose Ave. Mountain View, CA 94040 |
KG-06 | ||
* 10 is highest |
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328 Vital Statistics. 16 Condition Alerts found.
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