California · Census place 0643294

Los Altos Hills, California

Los Altos Hills is a town in Santa Clara County, California with an estimated 8,435 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 387th largest of 468 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
8,435
#387 of 468 in California
Change since 2020
-0.6%
-55 people
Land area
9.1 sq mi
Density
930 / sq mi
State median 3,725
Orange pin: Los Altos Hills. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Sacramento.

Los Altos Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Los Altos Hills lost 55 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +126. Among 429 California places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 196th; the median place changed by -1.1%. The median place of 5,000+ in California has 37,056 people, so Los Altos Hills is 23% of it.

8,49020208,29720218,25820228,30920238,4352024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,513. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Los Altos Hills covers 9.07 square miles of land, for 930 people per square mile of land. The median California place of 5,000+ has 3,725, so Los Altos Hills is less dense than the typical town.

What county Los Altos Hills is in

All of Los Altos Hills's residents live in Santa Clara County, which had 1,926,325 residents in 2024. Los Altos Hills holds 0.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Los Altos Hills

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Los Altos Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 94022, 94024. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Los Altos Hills is

The Census internal point of Los Altos Hills is at 37.366800, -122.138600. Sacramento, the capital, is 90.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Palo Alto, CA (67,658 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sunnyvale, CA, 6.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
37.366800, -122.138600
DMS
37°22'0.48"N 122°08'18.96"W
UTM
10N 576275.0E 4135912.0N
Geohash
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Plus code
849V9V86+PH

Daylight in Los Altos Hills

At 37.37° N, Los Altos Hills gets about 14 h 45 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 35 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 09 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Los Altos Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in California, measured between internal points. The closest is Palo Alto, 2.1 miles away, with 67,658 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Los Altos Hills, CA?

8,435 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 55 (0.6%) from 8,490 in July 2020.

What county is Los Altos Hills in?

Santa Clara County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Los Altos Hills?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 94022, 94024.

How far is Los Altos Hills from Sacramento?

90.7 miles (145.9 km) in a straight line, heading NNE from Los Altos Hills.

What is the nearest larger city to Los Altos Hills?

Palo Alto, CA, with 67,658 residents, 2.1 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.