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A City of Los Altos entrance marker, located in Lincoln Park just off of Main Street
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 Location in Santa Clara County and the state of California |
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 Los Altos, California
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| Coordinates: 37°22′5″N 122°5′51″W / 37.36806°N 122.09750°WCoordinates: 37°22′5″N 122°5′51″W / 37.36806°N 122.09750°W | |
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 United States
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 California
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| County | Santa Clara |
| Incorporated | December 1, 1952 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council/Manager |
| • Mayor | Mary Prochnow |
| • City manager | Christopher Jordan |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.47 sq mi (16.77 km2) |
| • Land | 6.47 sq mi (16.77 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 157 ft (48 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 28,976 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 30,561 |
| • Density | 4,720.57/sq mi (1,822.54/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific Time Zone (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| ZIP codes | 94022–94024 |
| Area code | 650 |
| FIPS code | 06-43280 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1659745, 2410876 |
| Website | www |
Los Altos /lɔːs ˈæltoʊs/ is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in northern Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 28,976 according to the 2010 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 now an affluent bedroom community for Silicon Valley. Los Altos has several distinctive features. Commercial zones are strictly limited to the downtown area and small shopping and office parks lining Foothill Expressway and El Camino Real.
Homes and other real estate are costly in Los Altos. The median household income of Los Altos for 2006–2010 was $149,964. The average home listing price in 2014 was $1.96 million. In 2015, Forbes put Los Altos (ZIP codes 94022 and 94024) as the 11th and 57th most expensive ZIP codes in the United States.
Los Altos means "the heights" in Spanish.
The area was originally called Banks and Braes.Paul Shoup, an executive of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and his colleagues formed the Altos Land Company in 1906 and started the development of Los Altos. The company acquired 140 acres of land from Sarah Winchester. Shoup wanted to link Palo Alto and Los Gatos by making Los Altos a commuter town. It continued a train-a-day operation to and from San Francisco.
In 1908, Southern Pacific Railroad began running steam train service through Los Altos (April 19, 1908) with five trains per day. Two freight cars served as train depot. Also, the first commercial building, Eschenbruecher’s Hardware, was built in downtown.
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