Area guide · city, Ventura County

Moorpark

Apricot-town roots, a High Street rail stop and family neighborhoods

Updated · Facts checked against public records; sources at the bottom of the page.

34,161residents (2026-01-01)
16neighborhood guides
81tracts & sub-neighborhoods
93021, 93020ZIP codes
The short version

Moorpark at a glance

Moorpark is a city of about 34,000 people in southeastern Ventura County. It sits in the valley where the Ronald Reagan Freeway (SR-118) meets SR-23, with Simi Valley to the east and Thousand Oaks over the hills to the south. Robert W. Poindexter took title to the townsite in 1887, named it for the Moorpark apricot and planted the pepper trees that still shade downtown. High Street, with its train station and arts center, keeps the feel of a farm-town main street.

The town stayed small through the 1970s. Then large subdivisions such as Peach Hill and Mountain Meadows filled in south of the Arroyo Simi, and the population went from about 4,000 in 1980 to more than 25,000 by 1990. Moorpark became a city in 1983. Planned communities followed: Carlsberg in the southeast, then Moorpark Highlands, Meridian Hills and the Country Club Estates in the northern hills. The 755-home Hitch Ranch plan, approved in 2022, is next.

Everyday life runs through Moorpark Unified's schools, Moorpark College with its teaching zoo and public observatory, 19 city parks and the 3,000-acre Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park on the northeast edge. Farmland still rings the city, including Underwood Family Farms to the south. Metrolink and Amtrak trains at the High Street station give commuters a rail link toward Los Angeles and the coast.

What it iscity · Ventura County
IncorporatedJuly 1, 1983 (Ventura County's tenth city)
Population34,161 (2026-01-01, California Department of Finance, Report E-1 (May 2026), provisional January 1, 2026 estimate (January 1, 2025 revised: 34,573; 2020 Census: 36,284))
ZIP codes93021, 93020
Land area12.44 sq mi
Elevation515
GovernmentCity of Moorpark: council-manager government. The mayor is elected citywide for a two-year term, and four council members are elected by district to staggered four-year terms. The council adopted district elections on April 3, 2019, and the first district races were held in November 2020. City Manager: PJ Gagajena. City Hall: 323 Science Drive, (805) 517-6200. Police chief (Ventura County Sheriff's Office): Capt. Nick Odenath.
School districtsMoorpark Unified School District, Ventura County Community College District (Moorpark College)
High schoolsMoorpark High School (4500 Tierra Rejada Rd.), The High School at Moorpark College (middle-college high school on the Moorpark College campus)
Neighborhoods16 with their own guide (list)
Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods of Moorpark

16 neighborhoods and 81 tracts inside them, each with its own guide.

Pins mark each neighborhood's approximate center, not its boundary. Tap a pin for its guide. The dashed line is the Census Bureau boundary of City of Moorpark.

Buttercreek

Buttercreek is a neighborhood of about 530 homes on Moorpark's west side, between Los Angeles Avenue and the Arroyo Simi.

3 tractsBuilt 1979–1984

Campus Park

Campus Park is the group of tracts around Moorpark College in the city's northeast corner, between SR-118 and the hills.

12 tractsBuilt 1969–1997

Carlsberg

Carlsberg is Moorpark's southeast corner, a planned area of about 500 acres between Spring Road and the SR-23 freeway that residents usually call…

4 tractsGatedBuilt 1990–2003

Downtown Moorpark

Downtown Moorpark is the city's original town center. It runs from Charles Street and the High Street rail station south across Los Angeles Avenue to…

19 tractsBuilt 1900s–2020s

Gabbert

Gabbert is Moorpark's semi-rural northwest corner: about 50 homes on large lots along Gabbert Road north of Poindexter Avenue, with the Country Club…

1 tractBuilt 1960s–2009

Hitch Ranch

Hitch Ranch is a planned neighborhood of up to 755 homes on about 277 acres north of Poindexter Avenue and west of Casey Road, at the western edge of…

2 tractsBuilt 2022–2026

Meridian Hills

Meridian Hills is a hillside subdivision of about 265 homes on Moorpark's north side, west of Walnut Canyon Road and reached by Meridian Hills Drive.

3 tractsSome gatesBuilt 2006–2017

Moorpark Country Club Estates

Moorpark Country Club Estates is a golf-course community on Moorpark's northern edge, laid out along Championship Drive between Grimes Canyon and…

2 tractsGatedBuilt 2001–2018

Moorpark Highlands

Moorpark Highlands is a hillside community of about 680 homes on Moorpark's north side.

6 tractsSome gatesBuilt 2005–2017

Moorpark Home Acres

Moorpark Home Acres is an unincorporated Ventura County neighborhood on Moorpark's west side, just outside the city limit beside the West Ranch area.

Built 1928–1997

Mountain Meadows

Mountain Meadows is one of Moorpark's largest neighborhoods, with about 2,400 homes in the southwest part of the city between the Arroyo Simi and the…

15 tractsBuilt 1983–1998

Peach Hill

Peach Hill is the swath of south-central Moorpark between the Arroyo Simi and Tierra Rejada Road, with Spring Road on the east and the Edison power…

13 tractsBuilt 1960–2001

Varsity Park Village

Varsity Park Village is a 64-unit condominium complex on the south side of Campus Park Drive in northeast Moorpark.

1 tractBuilt 1983–1984

Villa Campesina

Villa Campesina is a one-tract neighborhood of 62 one-story homes just south of Los Angeles Avenue at Leta Yancy Road.

Built 1988–1991

Villa del Arroyo

Villa del Arroyo Mobile Home Estates is Moorpark's only mobile home park, with 240 manufactured-home spaces at 15750 Arroyo Drive.

Built 1978

Virginia Colony

Virginia Colony is one of Moorpark's oldest neighborhoods. About 50 single-family homes stand on Avenida Colonia, Nogales Avenue and an old stretch…

Built 1925–1980s

This page covers the incorporated City of Moorpark, which lists its area as 12.44 square miles (Census figures put it at about 12.46). ZIP 93021 also reaches unincorporated land outside the city, and 93020 is Moorpark's post-office-box ZIP. - Moorpark Home Acres is included as an unincorporated neighborhood. It sits just past the western city limit, uses Moorpark addresses and shares a landscaped buffer with the city's West Ranch area. - Other unincorporated land in 93021 does not get its own page: Underwood Family Farms and the Tierra Rejada Valley farms, Happy Camp Canyon, and the Grimes Canyon ranches. Santa Rosa Valley is covered on its own area page. How this guide groups some areas: - Steeple Hill (Tract 2865) and Pheasant Run (Tracts 3019 and 3525) are covered under Peach Hill. Pheasant Run lies west of Peach Hill Road, from Williams Ranch Road south across Tierra Rejada Road, along the Peach Hill/Mountain Meadows edge. - Inglewood Street (Tract 3306, 22 homes) sits just west of Peach Hill Road, north of Pheasant Run, and is also covered under Peach Hill. - Buttercreek is its own neighborhood, north of the Arroyo Simi. The names "Buttercreek Estates" (Tract 4142) and "Buttercreek" (Tract 3274) also belong to sections of Mountain Meadows south of the arroyo; they are not part of the Buttercreek neighborhood. - West Ranch is covered under Mountain Meadows. - Campus Hills (Tract 3963), the late-1980s streets around Harte Lane, Swift Place and Sophomore Court, is covered under Campus Park. - Waverly Place (Pardee Homes, 102 townhomes, built about 2007-2010) and Pardee's 133-home LivingSmart Homes (Tract 5860, recorded 2013 on a site first set aside for a school) are covered under Moorpark Highlands. - North Ranch (also listed by the city as Moorpark 67, on Gabbert Road) is covered under Hitch Ranch because the city's Housing Element groups pending projects in that area, although it is not part of the Hitch Ranch Specific Plan. It is unrelated to North Ranch in Westlake Village. - La Perch, a pending Shea Homes project at 7200 Walnut Canyon Road between Meridian Hills and Moorpark Highlands, does not have a neighborhood page yet. - Old Town is covered on the Downtown Moorpark page. Not yet covered on neighborhood pages: Vistas at Moorpark (Tract 5130), Tract 5226 (near Stagecoach Trail and New Los Angeles Avenue) and "Arroyo West," an informal real-estate name that is also the name of a school. Council districts by neighborhood are approximate; some neighborhoods are split between districts.

Neighboring areas: Simi Valley Thousand Oaks Santa Rosa Valley

Schools

Schools serving Moorpark

Moorpark Unified School District

TK-12 (plus preschool and adult school)

District guide: schools, maps, transfers · District website · School locator (by address)

Ventura County Community College District (Moorpark College)

Community college

District website

High schools: Moorpark High School (4500 Tierra Rejada Rd.), The High School at Moorpark College (middle-college high school on the Moorpark College campus)

Ventura County GIS puts essentially the whole city, and the adjacent unincorporated Moorpark Home Acres, inside Moorpark Unified. The district runs: - five TK-5 elementary schools: Arroyo West Active Learning Academy (4117 Country Hill Rd.), Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology (240 Flory Ave.), Mountain Meadows 21st Century Learning Academy (4200 Mountain Meadow Dr.), Peach Hill Academy (13400 Christian Barrett Dr.) and Walnut Canyon Arts & Technology Magnet School (280 Casey Rd.); - one TK-8 school, Campus Canyon College Preparatory Academy (15300 Monroe Ave.); - two middle schools, Chaparral (280 Poindexter Ave.) and Mesa Verde (14000 Peach Hill Rd.); - Moorpark High School and The High School at Moorpark College; - a preschool early childhood center and Moorpark Adult School. The district office is at 5297 Maureen Lane, (805) 378-6300. Attendance areas change, so check the district's PowerSchool locator or call the district. Neighborhood pages list nearby schools only, not attendance assignments. The city notes that Moorpark High's Academic Decathlon team won national titles in 1999, 2003, 2008 and 2009.

School assignment goes by address: always confirm with the district's locator, or check an address against the districts' own boundary data. All districts in the region.

Living here

Services & who to call

Area-wide providers. Water, trash and some districts vary by street — confirm yours on your bill or with the provider.

PoliceMoorpark Police Department (contract with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office)
(805) 532-2700 station; (805) 654-9511 non-emergency dispatch; 911 for emergencies · Moorpark Police Services Center, 610 Spring Road, shared with the CHP Moorpark Area office. Capt. Nick Odenath serves as police chief.
FireVentura County Fire Department
911 for emergencies; Station 40 (805) 378-7000; Station 42 (805) 378-7007 · Station 40, 4185 Cedar Springs St. (west Moorpark, built 1989), and Station 42, 295 E. High St. (central and east Moorpark).
Water & sewerVentura County Waterworks District No. 1
(805) 378-3000 · Serves the city and nearby unincorporated land to the north and west. Supply is mostly imported State Water Project water through Calleguas Municipal Water District, plus local groundwater and recycled water.
ElectricSouthern California Edison (delivery and billing) with Clean Power Alliance (default power supplier)
SCE (800) 655-4555; CPA (888) 585-3788 · Residents are enrolled by default in a Clean Power Alliance plan and can choose another CPA plan or opt out to SCE.
GasSouthern California Gas Company (SoCalGas)
(877) 238-0092
Trash & recyclingWM (Waste Management)
(805) 522-9400 · The city's residential hauler. Billing is every two months; trash, recycling and green organics carts (yard and food waste) are required under state law. Senior and small-cart discounts are available through WM.
Parks & recreationCity of Moorpark Parks, Recreation & Community Services
(805) 517-6300 (Arroyo Vista Recreation Center) · Moorpark is outside the Rancho Simi and Conejo recreation and park districts; the city runs its own 19 parks, the Arroyo Vista Recreation Center and the Active Adult Center. Park reservations are made in person at Arroyo Vista.
LibraryMoorpark City Library
(805) 517-6370 · 699 Moorpark Ave. A city-run library, separate from the Ventura County Library system. Construction of a new 17,272-square-foot library at 83 High St. began in January 2026, and the city hopes to open it by fall 2027.
Animal servicesCity of Moorpark Animal & Vector Control Division; Ventura County Animal Services (shelter)
City (805) 517-6290; Simi Valley Shelter (805) 388-4341 · Sheltering and adoptions are at the county's Simi Valley Shelter, 670 W. Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley.
Public transitMoorpark City Transit and MCT On Demand; VCTC Intercity; Metrolink; Amtrak
MCT On Demand microtransit costs $1 a trip.
Emergency alertsVC Alert (Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services)
888-772-4482 · Sign up at vcalert.org. Incident updates and evacuation maps are posted on VC Emergency.
City HallCity of Moorpark
(805) 517-6200 · 323 Science Drive.
Civics

Who represents Moorpark

Local governmentCity of Moorpark: council-manager government. The mayor is elected citywide for a two-year term, and four council members are elected by district to staggered four-year terms. The council adopted district elections on April 3, 2019, and the first district races were held in November 2020. City Manager: PJ Gagajena. City Hall: 323 Science Drive, (805) 517-6200. Police chief (Ventura County Sheriff's Office): Capt. Nick Odenath.
CouncilMayor Chris Enegren (citywide). District 1: Renee Delgado. District 2: Chris Barrett. District 3: Tom Means. District 4: Dr. Antonio Castro, Mayor Pro Tem. The mayor's seat and Districts 1 and 3 are on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot; Enegren, Delgado and Means are running again.
County supervisorVentura County Board of Supervisors, District 4 (Simi Valley and Moorpark): Janice S. Parvin, a former Moorpark mayor. She won re-election outright in the June 2, 2026 primary over Ruth Luevanos, with 68.7% of the vote in the official final count.
State Assembly42nd Assembly District: Jacqui Irwin (D), whose district covers all of Moorpark. Irwin is running for Congress, so the seat is open on Nov. 3, 2026. Agoura Hills council member Deborah Klein Lopez (D) led the June primary, with Republican Ted Nordblum second in preliminary results.
State Senate27th Senate District: Henry Stern (D). The seat is not on the 2026 ballot.
Congress26th Congressional District: Julia Brownley (D), who is not seeking re-election. Under the Proposition 50 map approved by voters in November 2025, Moorpark stays in the 26th District. The Nov. 3, 2026 race is between Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D) and Republican Sam Gallucci.
Look up your addressFind your representatives

Officeholders as of October 15, 2026. The Nov. 3, 2026 general election may change the mayor, the Council District 1 and 3 seats, the Assembly member and the member of Congress. County maps put essentially the whole city in AD-42, SD-27, CD-26 and Supervisor District 4. Approximate council districts by neighborhood (some neighborhoods are split): District 1 covers the college area, Varsity Park, Villa del Arroyo and Moorpark Highlands; District 2 covers Meridian Hills, the Country Club Estates, Gabbert, Buttercreek and most of Mountain Meadows; District 3 covers Peach Hill (including Steeple Hill) and Carlsberg; District 4 covers downtown, the Los Angeles Avenue corridor, Virginia Colony and Villa Campesina. The city's district map is on its Election Information page.

Fire & safety

Wildfire and emergency readiness

Fire protection comes from the Ventura County Fire Department. - Station 40, 4185 Cedar Springs St. in Mountain Meadows, was built in 1989 to cover west Moorpark and has run a paramedic engine since 2005. - Station 42, 295 E. High St., covers central and east Moorpark. The town's station dates to 1931 and moved into its current building in 2004.

Hazard zones: - The State Fire Marshal's 2025 Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for local-responsibility land puts most of Moorpark in the Very High zone. That includes downtown, Carlsberg, Buttercreek, most of the college area, and the northern hill neighborhoods (Moorpark Highlands, Meridian Hills, the Country Club Estates and Gabbert). The middle of Peach Hill and parts of Mountain Meadows are mapped as High, Moderate or non-wildland. - The open hills outside the city, including the land around Moorpark Home Acres and the slopes above Moorpark Highlands, are State Responsibility Area. Most of that land is rated Very High on the state map in effect since April 1, 2024. - To check an address, use the OSFM Fire Hazard Severity Zone viewer (linked from osfm.fire.ca.gov). A Very High rating brings stricter building and defensible-space rules, and it must be disclosed when a home is sold.

Evacuations: - The Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services issues evacuation warnings and orders. They go out through VC Alert, Wireless Emergency Alerts, broadcast radio and TV, and door-to-door notices, and appear on VC Emergency (vcemergency.com). - The county's incident map shows pre-planned evacuation zones while a warning or order is active. During an incident, go by the area described in each alert and on the VC Emergency map. - The city's evacuation routes map, part of the 2025 Tri-Cities Emergency Evacuation Awareness Plan shared with Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks, splits Moorpark into four route areas: Northern, Northeastern, Southern and Dalaway Drive. Each has primary and secondary routes. These areas are for route planning, not alert zones.

Alerts: register for VC Alert, the county's free emergency notification system, at vcalert.org or 888-772-4482. SCE Public Safety Power Shutoff information is linked from the city's Emergency Management page.

Recent fires: - The November 2024 Mountain Fire started on Balcom Canyon Road north of Somis, west of Moorpark. It burned about 19,900 acres and destroyed 243 structures, many of them in Camarillo Heights. - The hills of Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park have burned more than once, including in the 2009 Guiberson Fire and the 2013 Happy Camp Fire.

Alerts, zones and checklists →

Around town

Parks, places & landmarks

Parks & open space

community park

Arroyo Vista Community Park & Recreation Center

4550 Tierra Rejada Rd., next to Moorpark High School. The city's largest park, with athletic fields and the recreation center where park reservations are made.

regional park / open space

Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park

About 3,000 acres in the foothills on Moorpark's northeast edge, run by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority since 1990. About 12.5 miles of moderate trails, including the 10.7-mile Happy Camp Loop.

neighborhood park

Tierra Rejada Park

11900 Mountain Trail St., Mountain Meadows. Home to the city's all-abilities playground, plus tennis and pickleball courts.

neighborhood park

Poindexter Park

500 Poindexter Ave., downtown.

neighborhood park

Mammoth Highlands Park

7000 Elk Run Loop, Moorpark Highlands.

neighborhood park

Peach Hill Park

13200 Peach Hill Rd.

neighborhood park

Mountain Meadows Park

4350 Mountain Meadow Dr.

nature park

Monte Vista Nature Park

4201 Spring Rd.

memorial park

Veterans Memorial Park

Spring Road and Flinn Avenue.

neighborhood parks

College View, Campus Park and Campus Canyon parks

College area: 15400 Campus Park Dr., 6400 Harvard St. and 6970 Campus Canyon Dr.

neighborhood parks

Other city parks

Country Trail (11701½ Mountain Trail St.), Glenwood (11800 Harvester St.), Magnolia (296 Charles St.), Miller (4530 Miller Pkwy.), Villa Campesina (4704½ Leta Yancy Rd.), Virginia Colony (14507 Condor Dr.), Walnut Acres (161 Second St.), Community Center Park (799 Moorpark Ave.) and the city dog park.

trail

Country Club Estates equestrian trail

A city-maintained equestrian trail between Grimes Canyon Road and Walnut Canyon Road, with a staging area on the east side of Grimes Canyon Road.

trail corridor (planned)

Arroyo Simi corridor

A trail study presented to the City Council in June 2003 mapped a future multi-use trail along the Arroyo Simi through town.

Landmarks, shopping & dining

historic main street

High Street / Old Town

The original commercial core, with Poindexter-era pepper trees, restaurants, the High Street Arts Center and the train station. Guided by the Downtown Specific Plan, adopted in 1998.

rail station

Moorpark station

300 High St. Metrolink Ventura County Line and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. Trains first stopped here in 1983 on the short-lived CalTrain service, and the station was rebuilt for Metrolink in 1992. The Southern Pacific depot, built in 1900 and torn down in 1964, stood where the Chamber of Commerce is now.

performing arts

High Street Arts Center

City-owned theater on High Street.

college

Moorpark College

7075 Campus Rd. Opened in September 1967 on a 150-acre hilltop campus. Its Exotic Animal Training and Management program (since 1973) runs America's Teaching Zoo, and the Charles Temple Observatory, dedicated in 1987, is Ventura County's only public observatory.

golf

Moorpark Country Club

11800 Championship Dr., at the center of the Country Club Estates. 27 holes designed by Peter Jacobsen, played as three nines, with a restaurant and event space. Open to the public, with memberships available.

shopping center

Moorpark Marketplace

A 29-acre retail center along New Los Angeles Avenue, built under the Carlsberg Specific Plan in southeast Moorpark.

shopping

Los Angeles Avenue retail corridor

Los Angeles Avenue through town is lined with grocery-anchored and big-box centers, including the Town Center area, Tuscany Square and Campus Plaza (Collins Drive at Campus Park Drive).

civic

Moorpark Civic Center

City Hall at 323 Science Dr.; Community Center at 799 Moorpark Ave.

library

Moorpark City Library

699 Moorpark Ave. A larger new library is under construction at 83 High St., with an opening hoped for by fall 2027.

farm (unincorporated)

Underwood Family Farms

Working farm south of the city, one of several farms that surround Moorpark.

fossil / local history

Moorpark Mammoth

Bones of a southern mammoth, from soils about one million years old, found in spring 2005 at the Meridian Hills construction site. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History holds them, and part is on display there.

Background

History & getting around

  1. Before 1795Chumash people live in the area; their village of Quimisac stood in what is now Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park.
  2. 1795The land becomes part of Rancho Simi, granted to the Pico brothers.
  3. 1887Robert W. Poindexter receives title to the townsite. He names it for the Moorpark apricot, lays out the streets and plants the pepper trees that still shade downtown.
  4. 1895A subdivision map divides the Peach Hill section of Rancho Simi, the source of the neighborhood's name.
  5. 1900A post office is approved in August, a townsite map is prepared in November, and Southern Pacific builds a depot on High Street.
  6. 1904The Santa Susana rail tunnel is completed, making Moorpark a regular stop on the coast line.
  7. 1920Construction begins on Moorpark Memorial Union High School.
  8. 1927The Colonia Virginia tract map is recorded, and Virginia Colony grows between the railroad and the Arroyo Simi.
  9. 1928The Moorpark Home Acres subdivision map is recorded west of town, and Flory Street School replaces a one-room schoolhouse.
  10. 1939The first high school closes after earthquake damage, and a new campus is built on Casey Road.
  11. 1957Power from the Sodium Reactor Experiment at the nearby Santa Susana Field Laboratory makes Moorpark one of the first towns lit by nuclear-generated electricity. Edward R. Murrow's See It Now features it that November.
  12. 1961Julius Goldman founds Egg City, then the largest chicken ranch in the United States. It closed in 1996.
  13. 1964The Southern Pacific depot is demolished.
  14. 1967Moorpark College opens in September with about 1,400 students.
  15. 1978Villa del Arroyo, the city's only mobile home park, opens on Arroyo Drive.
  16. 1980sLarge subdivisions such as Peach Hill and Mountain Meadows fill in south of the Arroyo Simi. The population grows from about 4,000 in 1980 to more than 25,000 by 1990.
  17. 1983Moorpark incorporates on July 1 as Ventura County's tenth city. Passenger trains begin stopping on High Street on the short-lived CalTrain service.
  18. 1989The Villa Campesina farmworker homes are completed around 1989-1991, and Fire Station 40 opens to serve west Moorpark.
  19. 1990The City Council adopts the Carlsberg Specific Plan (amended in 1994), and the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority takes over Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park.
  20. 1992The rebuilt Moorpark station opens to Amtrak on October 25 and to Metrolink's new Ventura County Line on October 26.
  21. 1998The city adopts the Downtown Specific Plan for High Street and the original neighborhoods.
  22. 1999The Moorpark Highlands plan (Specific Plan No. 2) is finalized in June.
  23. 2004Fire Station 42 moves into its current building on East High Street.
  24. 2005Crews grading Meridian Hills uncover the bones of a southern mammoth in soils about one million years old.
  25. 2019The City Council adopts district-based council elections on April 3.
  26. 2020Moorpark holds its first district-based City Council elections.
  27. 2022The City Council approves the 755-home Hitch Ranch Specific Plan on June 15.
  28. 2024The Mountain Fire starts north of Somis on November 6 and burns about 19,900 acres west of Moorpark.

Getting around

Moorpark sits where SR-118 (the Ronald Reagan Freeway, which continues west as Los Angeles Avenue) meets SR-23.

- SR-118 heads east through Simi Valley into the San Fernando Valley, and west toward Somis and the Oxnard Plain. - SR-23 runs south over the hills to US-101 in Thousand Oaks. North of town it follows Walnut Canyon and Grimes Canyon roads toward Fillmore.

Rail, at Moorpark station (300 High St.): - Metrolink's Ventura County Line to Los Angeles Union Station: about 16 trains on weekdays, mostly at peak hours in the peak direction, and about 4 on weekends. - Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner: about 10 trains a day. Metrolink riders can use Surfliner trains through a code-share.

Buses: - VCTC Intercity East County buses link Moorpark, Moorpark College, Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks. The VCTC East-West Connector runs to Somis, Camarillo, Oxnard and Ventura. - Moorpark City Transit runs one weekday fixed route, from about 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Route 2 ended in August 2025, and its riders moved to MCT On Demand: app-booked microtransit at $1 a trip with more than 100 pickup points around town. - ADA paratransit and senior Dial-A-Ride serve Moorpark and nearby cities.

The city puts downtown Los Angeles and LAX about 50 miles away. The Burbank, Van Nuys and Oxnard airports are within 35 miles.

HOAs here

Most neighborhoods built since 1980 have homeowners associations, often more than one. - Mountain Meadows was built in phases and has several smaller associations. Associations named in recent home sales include Mountain Meadows Belmont, Mountain Meadows Villagio, Willows II and Mountain Meadows Countryside II. - In Carlsberg, the gated enclaves share the Serenata HOA, with 2026 dues of roughly $155 a month. - Moorpark Highlands and the Country Club Estates each have a master association that maintains open space, slopes and landscaping. The Pinnacle in the Highlands adds a second charge. - Smaller enclaves have their own associations, including the Canterbury Lane Community Association (which also covers Ivy Lane), the Varsity Park associations and Campus Hills. - The older downtown blocks, Virginia Colony, Steeple Hill and Pheasant Run have no known HOA.

City assessments are separate from HOA dues. Moorpark bills Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance Assessment District charges on the property-tax bill. - Citywide charges on a typical single-family parcel are about $20.84 a year for street lighting and about $13 for landscaping (about $9.88 for a condo). - Many tracts add a zone or district charge. Fiscal 2026-27 amounts per home, per year:

| Neighborhood or tract | Amount per home | |---|---| | Meridian Hills | $1,648.28 | | Moorpark Highlands | $1,128.65 | | Country Club Estates | $881.48 | | Masters at Moorpark Country Club | $631.48 | | Moonsong Court | $600.75 | | Carlsberg | $446.00 | | Mountain View | $259.57 | | Pecan Avenue | $129.36 | | Steeple Hill | $116.46 | | Pheasant Run | $107.56 | | Ivy Lane | $90.00 | | Mountain Meadows | $76.54 (plus a drainage charge on some lots) | | Canterbury Lane | $75.00 | | Buttercreek/Peppermill | $11.62 |

Confirm association names, dues and assessments in each home's disclosure documents.

Homes

Homes for sale in Moorpark

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Sources

Where these facts come from

  1. California Department of Finance, E-1 Population and Housing Estimates (May 2026) — dof.ca.gov
  2. California Department of Finance, E-1 2026 city/county table (xlsx) — dof.ca.gov
  3. Wikipedia: Moorpark, California — en.wikipedia.org
  4. City of Moorpark: Moorpark Facts — moorparkca.gov
  5. City of Moorpark: History — moorparkca.gov
  6. City of Moorpark: Demographics — moorparkca.gov
  7. City of Moorpark 2021-2029 Housing Element (revised draft) — moorparkca.gov
  8. City of Moorpark: Specific Plans — moorparkca.gov
  9. City of Moorpark: Current Developments — moorparkca.gov
  10. City of Moorpark Landscaping & Lighting Assessment Districts Engineer's Report FY 2026-27 (June 3, 2026) — moorparkca.gov
  11. City of Moorpark: Public Officials — moorparkca.gov
  12. City of Moorpark: Election Information — moorparkca.gov
  13. City of Moorpark: History of District-Based Elections — moorparkca.gov
  14. Ventura County GIS: Moorpark City Council Districts — maps.ventura.org
  15. Ventura County GIS Political districts service — maps.ventura.org
  16. Ventura County GIS Record Maps (recorded subdivisions) — maps.ventura.org
  17. Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin: Biography (AD-42 communities) — irwin.asmdc.org
  18. California State Senate District 27 (Henry Stern) — sd27.senate.ca.gov
  19. VC Reporter: VC primary election results (June 11, 2026) — vcreporter.com
  20. VC Reporter: In Brief, week of Jan. 15, 2026 (Brownley retires, endorses Irwin) — vcreporter.com
  21. The Signal: Potential new SCV representative announces she won't seek reelection (Jan. 14, 2026) — signalscv.com
  22. City of Moorpark: Public Safety — moorparkca.gov
  23. Ventura County Fire Department: Station 40 — fire.venturacounty.gov
  24. Ventura County Fire Department: Station 42 — fire.venturacounty.gov
  25. City of Moorpark: Local Utilities — moorparkca.gov
  26. Ventura County Waterworks District No. 1 service area — publicworks.venturacounty.gov
  27. City of Moorpark: Energy Conservation (Clean Power Alliance) — moorparkca.gov
  28. City of Moorpark: Residential Trash Service — moorparkca.gov
  29. City of Moorpark: Library — moorparkca.gov
  30. City of Moorpark: New City Library — moorparkca.gov
  31. City of Moorpark: Animal & Vector Control — moorparkca.gov
  32. City of Moorpark: Transportation — moorparkca.gov
  33. City of Moorpark: Emergency Management — moorparkca.gov
  34. Tri-Cities Emergency Evacuation Awareness Plan (2025) — moorparkca.gov
  35. City of Moorpark Evacuation Routes map — moorparkca.gov
  36. Ready Ventura County: VC Alert — readyventuracounty.org
  37. VC Emergency: Evacuation Terminology — emergency.venturacounty.gov
  38. VC Emergency incident dashboard (evacuation zones layer shown during incidents) — vcoes.maps.arcgis.com
  39. OSFM: Fire Hazard Severity Zones — osfm.fire.ca.gov
  40. OSFM Fire Hazard Severity Zone viewer (address lookup) — experience.arcgis.com
  41. CAL FIRE/OSFM: LRA Fire Hazard Severity Zones as recommended by the State Fire Marshal, 2025 (feature service) — services1.arcgis.com
  42. CAL FIRE/OSFM: SRA Fire Hazard Severity Zones, effective April 1, 2024 (feature service) — services1.arcgis.com
  43. Moorpark Unified School District — mrpk.org
  44. MUSD School Locator / Boundary Maps — locator.pea.powerschool.com
  45. City of Moorpark Park Locations map — moorparkca.gov
  46. City of Moorpark: Parks — moorparkca.gov
  47. Wikipedia: Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park — en.wikipedia.org
  48. Wikipedia: Moorpark College — en.wikipedia.org
  49. Wikipedia: Moorpark station — en.wikipedia.org
  50. Wikipedia: Mountain Fire (2024) — en.wikipedia.org
  51. City of Moorpark: Moorpark Mammoth — moorparkca.gov
  52. Moorpark Country Club — moorparkcc.com
  53. Draft District Maps Submitted to the City, Supplement (Jan. 18, 2019) — moorparkca.gov
  54. Ventura County Elections: 2026 election results and voting reports — clerkrecorder.venturacounty.gov
  55. Ventura County: June 2, 2026 Statewide Direct Primary official final results — results.enr.clarityelections.com

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