Your Guide to Buying a Home in Thousand Oaks, CA

Buying a Home in Thousand Oaks, California

Thousand Oaks is located in Ventura County

Population: 119,000 Thousand Oaks, a city of more than 119,000 people, is conveniently located 39 miles west of Los Angeles and 12 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. The City of Thousand Oaks lies within the Conejo Valley, a picturesque, mountain-rimmed plateau, 900 feet above sea level at the Ventura/Los Angeles County Line. Thousand Oaks continually ranks as one of the safest cities for its size in the nation by FBI reporting standards and the City was given an A+ by Kid Friendly Cities 2001 and ranked 8th.

Thousand Oaks is home to the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. As the only performing arts center of its size between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Civic Arts Plaza, provides outstanding entertainment opportunities to Southern California residents and visitors. Consisting of the 1,800-seat The Fred Kavli Theatre for the Performing Arts, the 400-seat Janet and Ray Scherr Forum, a spacious five-acre park and City Hall, the Civic Arts Plaza is a center for numerous cultural and educational entertainment opportunities.

The Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) operates four high schools, four intermediate and 19 elementary schools; 16 have been named Distinguished California Schools. Three elementaries and one intermediate have been named National Blue Ribbon Schools.

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