Los Altos, California

Los Altos is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the United States, within the San Francisco Bay Area. Its Spanish name means The Heights. The town was originally agricultural, with many summer cottages and apricot orchards, and most of its growth took place between 1950 and 1980. Today it is a bedroom community on the western edge of Silicon Valley and a major source of commuters to other parts of the valley. Los Altos strictly limits commercial zones to its downtown area and to small shopping and office parks along Foothill Expressway and El Camino Real. The 2020 census counted 31,625 residents.