Santa Clarita Real Estate
Santa Clarita Real Estate
This guide to Santa Clarita real estate covers a city in northwestern Los Angeles County, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, along the Santa Clara River in the Santa Clarita Valley. Santa Clarita was incorporated on December 15, 1987, combining Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus and Valencia, which still keep separate identities, and it covers 70.81 square miles. Interstate 5 is on the west edge and State Route 14 forms part of the east edge, with the Angeles National Forest to the north and east. Read on for the city’s history, how to get around, and where to find parks, shopping and dining. Current prices, rents, schools and weather follow, each with its source and date. Santa Clarita is one of the communities in the Santa Clarita Valley section of this site.
Santa Clarita Real Estate By The Numbers
Santa Clarita
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The Area Score compares this community with the other Los Angeles-area communities this site covers (the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, central Los Angeles and the Santa Clarita Valley). A community with more than one ZIP code uses all of them: each ZIP code’s home values and rents count in proportion to its number of homes (the Census Bureau’s home counts), and the empty rentals and rental homes of all of them are added together. Each measure is turned into a rank from 0 to 100, then the ranks are averaged. Price Growth is the change in Zillow’s typical home value over the last 12 months. Rent Yield is a year of Zillow’s typical rent divided by the typical home value. Rental Demand is how few rental homes sit empty, from the Census Bureau’s rental vacancy rate (fewer empty rentals ranks higher). If a measure has too little data for an area, it is left out and the score says how many measures it used. The score describes housing-market numbers only. It is not a rating of the people or the neighborhood, and it is not investment advice.
A Short History Of Santa Clarita
The Tataviam lived in the valley, with about 20 villages in the area. Mentryville, in Pico Canyon, was founded on September 26, 1876, and its Pico Number 4 well was the first commercially successful oil well in the western United States. It operated until 1990. The Newhall Land and Farming Company, incorporated in 1883, oversaw the development of present-day Santa Clarita’s communities, including Valencia, where it is headquartered. The St. Francis Dam collapsed on March 12, 1928, with 411 deaths reported.
Los Angeles studios began filming here shortly after the turn of the 20th century, with early actors including William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Harry Carey and John Wayne. The City’s film office says Santa Clarita has been a filming destination for generations and that its movie ranches have helped define the look of countless productions.
Wikipedia lists the Sand Fire and the Tick Fire among the notable wildfires in the Santa Clarita area. The Sand Fire began on July 22, 2016, near Soledad Canyon Road and Sand Canyon Road. The Tick Fire began in Canyon Country on October 24, 2019, and burned 4,615 acres. The 1994 Northridge earthquake collapsed the Newhall Pass interchange of Interstate 5 and State Route 14. The numbers section links to official fire and earthquake hazard maps.
Getting Around Santa Clarita
Interstate 5 (the Golden State Freeway) runs along the city’s west edge, and State Route 14 (the Antelope Valley Freeway) forms part of its east edge. State Route 126 ends at Interstate 5, where the road continues into Santa Clarita as Newhall Ranch Road. Metrolink’s Antelope Valley Line, 76.6 miles from Lancaster to Los Angeles Union Station, has stations in Santa Clarita that include Newhall, Santa Clarita (at 22122 Soledad Canyon Road), Via Princessa and Vista Canyon. Santa Clarita Transit is the city’s local public transit service. The Santa Clara River Trail, a paved path of about 8 miles, runs between Canyon Country and Valencia through Saugus, with a fork to Newhall. The City’s trails page lists approximately 80 miles of trails and 20 miles of paseos. The numbers section shows the closest rail station and its distance.
Parks, Trails And Open Space
Central Park, in Saugus, is the city’s largest park, with a 3.1-mile cross country course, a disc golf course and a dog park. The city limits also include a small exclave in Towsley Canyon Park, west of Interstate 5. Placerita Canyon State Park, in an unincorporated area east of Newhall, has eight hiking trails, equestrian trails, waterfalls, the Oak of the Golden Dream and the Walker Cabin. The Angeles National Forest forms part of the city’s northern and eastern edges. The numbers section also counts the parks, grocery stores, restaurants and coffee shops within one mile, using OpenStreetMap.
Shopping, Dining And Attractions
Valencia Town Center is described by Wikipedia as the city’s largest shopping center. Newhall is the oldest community in the city, and the Old Town Newhall website describes its center as an arts and entertainment district. Six Flags Magic Mountain opened on May 29, 1971, on 262 acres and has 20 roller coasters. It sits just outside the city limits, in unincorporated Valencia.
Library, Schools And Colleges
The City of Santa Clarita opened the Santa Clarita Public Library on July 1, 2011. It has three branches: the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Branch at 18601 Soledad Canyon Rd., the Old Town Newhall Branch at 24500 Main St. and the Valencia Branch at 23743 W. Valencia Blvd. College of the Canyons has its main campus in Valencia and a second campus on Sierra Highway in Canyon Country. California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), a private art university founded in 1961, has been in Valencia since 1971. The numbers section lists nearby K-12 and adult schools, colleges and trade schools by distance, with links to their official pages. School attendance areas are set by the school district, so confirm them with the district for any address you are considering.
Look Up A Santa Clarita Address
Free public tools let anyone check an address’s zoning and assessment details. The City of Santa Clarita’s zoning map identifies the land-use zone for properties in the city, and the City’s Planning Division page links to its mapping tool and Unified Development Code. The County Office of the Assessor also has a public portal for property assessment information.
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