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Los Altos
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city in Santa Clara County, California, United States
Los Altos is a city located in Santa Clara County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is part of the region known for its concentration of technology companies and suburban residential communities.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Santa Clara
- Incorporated
- December 1, 1952
- Type
- Council/Manager
- Mayor
- Pete Dailey
- Vice mayor
- Neysa Fligor
- Total
- 6.54 sq mi (16.94 km )
- Land
- 6.54 sq mi (16.94 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 157 ft (48 m)
- Density
- 4,835/sq mi (1,867/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific Time Zone )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Zip codes
- 94022–94024
- Fips code
- 06-43280
- Gnis feature ids
- 1659745 , 2410876
- Website
- www .losaltosca .gov
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Encyclopedic overview
Los Altos (/lɔːs ˈæltoʊs/ ; Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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 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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