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Los Altos city, California: commercial real estate data.
Los Altos city is a Census city of 30,698 people across 6.54 square miles of land, in Santa Clara County. Median household income is $250,001, 81.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 25 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $15.3 m.
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Los Altos
What Los Altos is
- Census place typecity
- Land area6.54 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land4,694
- County holding the largest share of its areaSanta Clara County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Los Altos
How many people live in Los Altos
- Population30,698
- Median age45.9
- Population under 187,424
- Share under 1824.2 percent
- Population 65 and over6,377
- Share 65 and over20.8 percent
- Households10,840
- Family households8,903
- Share of households that are families82.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Los Altos
Income and work in Los Altos
- Median household income$250,001
- Per capita income$149,247
- Civilian labor force14,050
- Employed13,376
- Unemployed674 plus or minus 185
- Unemployment rate4.8 percent plus or minus 1.3
- Adults 25 and over21,184
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher99.0 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher88.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree55.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Los Altos
Housing in Los Altos
- Housing units11,781
- Occupied units10,840
- Vacant units941 plus or minus 265
- Vacancy rate8.0 percent plus or minus 2.2
- Owner occupied8,852
- Renter occupied1,988
- Ownership rate81.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$2,000,001
- Median gross rent, monthly$3,501
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.8 percent
- Single family units10,232
- Share single family86.9 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more1,526
- Share in buildings of two or more13.0 percent
- Mobile homes23 plus or minus 26
- Median year structure built1964
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Los Altos
How Los Altos gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute8,014
- Commuting under 15 minutes1,689
- Share commuting under 15 minutes21.1 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more2,194
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.4 percent
- Drove alone50.7 percent
- Carpooled4.2 percent plus or minus 1.2
- Public transport0.7 percent plus or minus 0.4
- Walked1.9 percent plus or minus 0.9
- Worked from home39.4 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Los Altos
SBA loans in Los Altos (7(a))
- Approvals25
- Gross approval$15,346,600
- Average approval$613,864
- Median approval$230,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$1,500,000
- Largest approval$4,880,000
- Jobs supported172
- Jobs per approval6.9
- Loans with a final outcome4
- Paid in full4
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more12.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders15
- Distinct industries by NAICS22
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Los Altos
SBA loans in Los Altos (504)
- Approvals10
- Gross approval$10,788,000
- Average approval$1,078,800
- Median approval$962,000
- Largest approval$2,313,000
- Jobs supported58
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs4
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Los Altos
Flood risk in Los Altos
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- Best Community Rating System classClass 7
- NFIP community number060341
- Currently effective map date05/18/09
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Santa Clara County, not Los Altos
Santa Clara County context, not Los Altos figures
These are Santa Clara County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Los Altos measurements.
- Establishments in Santa Clara County49,154
- Employment at those establishments, Santa Clara County1,171,397
- Covered employment, Santa Clara County1,116,581
- Average annual pay, Santa Clara County$197,043
- Average weekly wage, Santa Clara County$3,789
- Housing units permitted, Santa Clara County3,834
- Of those, single family, Santa Clara County1,926
- County product, 2024, Santa Clara County$438,483,301,000
- County product change over the prior year, Santa Clara County8.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Santa Clara County$183,973
Every figure in this section is published for Santa Clara County as a whole and is not a measurement of Los Altos. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Los Altos questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Los Altos, California?
30,698, in 10,840 households. Los Altos city covers 6.54 square miles of land, which is 4,694 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Los Altos in?
Santa Clara County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Los Altos?
$250,001. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $2,000,001. Median gross rent is $3,501 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Los Altos businesses?
25 7(a) approvals totalling $15.3 m, across 15 lenders, median approval $230,000, plus 10 504 approvals worth $10.8 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Los Altos, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Los Altos borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Los Altos. only 4 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Los Altos in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Los Altos appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 060341, carrying Community Rating System class 7, which is a premium discount for exceeding the programme minimum. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Los Altos figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Santa Clara County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Los Altos.
Is zoning published for Los Altos?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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