Demographics and Schools
Agoura Hills
Located in Los Angeles County Agoura Hills has a population of 20,330 according to the 2010 census. It is located in the eastern Conejo Valley between the Simi Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains. This city sits on the border between the county of Los Angeles to the east, west and south and Ventura County to the north and is about 30 miles to the northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Agoura Hills and unincorporated Agoura are next to Calabasas, Oak Park, and Westlake Village.
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History
The area was first settled by the Chumash Native Americans around 10,000 years ago. As the Alta California (Upper California) coast was settled by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the late 18th century, the El Camino Real (the Royal Road or King’s Highway), a road from Loreto, Baja California, Mexico to Sonoma, California, and connecting the Spanish missions in California, was established through the heart of what would later be known as Agoura Hills. In about 1800, Miguel Ortega was granted a Spanish grazing concession called Rancho Las Virgenes or El Rancho de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Las Virgenes. The grant was abandoned after Ortega’s death in 1810, and José Maria Dominguez was given Rancho Las Virgenes as a Mexican land grant in 1834. Maria Antonia Machado de Reyes purchased the rancho from Dominguez in 1845. (The “Reyes Adobe” ranch headquarters sits today in central Agoura Hills, where it is part of the Reyes Adobe Museum built around 2004 and owned by the Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation Department.) By 1900, Agoura Hills was being used as a popular stage stop for travelers along the Camino Real because of its natural spring at the foothills of Ladyface Mountain, one of Agoura Hills’ defining geographic features. In the 1920s, the community was briefly known as Picture City, as Paramount Pictures owned a ranch in the area used for filming Westerns. To obtain a post office of their own, the residents were required to choose a one-word name, and in 1927 chose the shortest name proposed: a misspelling of the last name of Pierre Agoure, a local Basque man and French immigrant who had settled in the area in 1871 to live the lifestyle of the Mexican rancher. Styling himself Don Pierre Agoure, he was a successful sheep herder and had a reputation as a swashbuckler. An estate in Old Agoura Agoura Hills began to grow rapidly in the late 1960s after the Ventura Freeway section of U.S. Route 101 was built through the city’s heart, isolating the northern half of the city from the south. The first housing tracts started in Agoura were Hillrise, Liberty Canyon and Lake Lindero. Rapid growth continued during the 1970s, when schools were built and much of downtown erected. In 1978, residents of the Agoura Hills area banded together to lobby Sacramento to widen the Kanan Bridge. Legislation was passed requiring the State Department of Transportation to award contracts for widening of the Kanan Road bridge overpass, over the Ventura Freeway, from two lanes to four lanes. In 1982, the residents of the City of Agoura Hills voted in favor of cityhood by a 68% majority. Agoura Hills became the 83rd City in Los Angeles County. Elected to the first City Council were Mayor Fran Pavley, Mayor Pro Tem Carol Sahm, Councilmembers Ernest Dynda, John Hood and Vicky Leary. Incorporating a year after neighboring Westlake Village, the drive for cityhood in the region was largely based on public discontent with the county’s failure to limit residential development of the area, motives that influenced Malibu and Calabasas to follow suit in 1991. The 1980s was a period of tremendous growth, with large land areas being subdivided into housing tracts and a great wave of migration of people into the city. In the 1990s, numerous businesses set up shop in the city, and the downtown area was filled with shops and restaurants. Information source: Wikipedia
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Lot Size4.67 ac
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Home Size1,149 sqft
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Beds3 Beds
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Baths2 Baths
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Year Built1975
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Days on Market1
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Lot Size7,240 sqft
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Home Size2,510 sqft
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Beds3 Beds
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Baths4 Baths
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Year Built2002
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Lot Size11,979 sqft
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Home Size3,670 sqft
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Beds5 Beds
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Baths3 Baths
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Year Built1987
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Days on Market5
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Lot Size6,752 sqft
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Home Size2,347 sqft
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Beds4 Beds
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Baths3 Baths
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Year Built1977
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Days on Market5
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Lot Size15,660 sqft
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Home Size4,925 sqft
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Beds6 Beds
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Baths5 Baths
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Year Built1983
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Days on Market6
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Lot Size12.06 ac
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Home Size811 sqft
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Beds2 Beds
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Baths1 Bath
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Year Built1978
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Days on Market8
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Lot Size2.12 ac
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Home Size1,077 sqft
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Beds2 Beds
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Baths2 Baths
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Year Built1974
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Days on Market9
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Lot Size36,791 sqft
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Home Size3,079 sqft
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Beds4 Beds
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Baths4 Baths
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Year Built1976
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Days on Market12
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Lot Size5,324 sqft
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Home Size1,660 sqft
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Beds4 Beds
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Baths2 Baths
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Year Built1968
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Days on Market15
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Lot Size1,290 sqft
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Home Size1,773 sqft
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Beds4 Beds
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Baths3 Baths
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Year Built1981
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Days on Market21
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