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 the Arroyo Simi. The townsite was mapped beside the railroad in 1900, and the area filled in over the next century, from early cottages and 1950s tract streets to condo complexes and small-lot communities built since 2000.
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Downtown Moorpark quick facts
| Also called | Old Town, High Street, Los Angeles Avenue Corridor/Downtown |
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| Where | Center of Moorpark, from Charles Street and Poindexter Avenue south to the Arroyo Simi, and from about Gabbert Road east to Spring Road and the east end of Charles Street. High Street and Moorpark Avenue form the historic core, and Los Angeles Avenue (SR-118) is the commercial spine. |
| City / jurisdiction | City of Moorpark · ZIP 93021 |
| Built | 1900s-2020s |
| Home types | Older single-family homes on small lots, 1950s and early-1960s tract homes, apartments, 1970s-80s condominium complexes, and newer townhome, condo and small-lot single-family communities |
| Gates | Not gated |
| HOA | No neighborhood-wide HOA, and the older tract streets have none. Condominium complexes and some newer communities have associations: Park Springs has its own, Canterbury Lane and Ivy Lane share the Canterbury Lane Community Association, and Beltramo Ranch has an HOA for yard landscaping. |
| Tracts | 19 named tracts and sub-neighborhoods (list) |
| Parks nearby | Poindexter Park (500 Poindexter Ave.), Magnolia Park (296 Charles St.), Walnut Acres Park (161 Second St.), Community Center Park (799 Moorpark Ave.), Veterans Memorial Park (Spring Rd. & Flinn Ave.) |
| School district | Moorpark Unified School District, Ventura County Community College District (Moorpark College) |
Pins are approximate centers. Outlines are recorded tract maps from county GIS; tap one for its guide. Some later tract maps re-divide lots of earlier ones, so those outlines overlap.
Living in Downtown Moorpark
North of the tracks, the Charles Street blocks platted in 1906 and 1912 hold small houses and a few small apartment buildings. Between the tracks and Los Angeles Avenue, around Flory Avenue, Second Street and Poindexter Park, early houses on John Cornett's 1915 Tract O grid sit beside 1950s and early-1960s subdivisions: the Flory Tract, the McFadden and Sunshine tracts, Walnut Acres, Vista Verde and Moorpark Estates. The Park Springs condominiums (1978) line Spring Road.
Los Angeles Avenue is the city's main shopping strip. The City's housing element counts all eight of Moorpark's apartment complexes in its corridor planning area. South of the avenue are 1980s condominiums on Majestic Court and Shea Homes' Canterbury Lane and Ivy Lane. Past Villa Campesina come the big lots of Maureen Lane and KB Home's new Beltramo Ranch. The 1998 Downtown Specific Plan guides change here. Still to come are the approved 284-home Pacific Communities project and a library planned under the City's Civic Center master plan.
The lay of the land
Flat, walkable older grid around the rail station and High Street, with the pepper trees Robert Poindexter planted. Early-1900s houses and 1950s tract streets sit beside apartments, older condominium complexes and newer small-lot and townhome communities along Los Angeles Avenue.
The City's housing element uses "Los Angeles Avenue Corridor/Downtown" for a larger planning area that runs between the city limits. Buttercreek and Villa Campesina fall inside that planning area, but this guide covers them as separate neighborhoods.
Tracts & sub-neighborhoods of Downtown Moorpark
The named tracts, villages and gated enclaves residents, HOAs and the MLS use inside the neighborhood, each with its own page.
Missing a tract? Tell us its name and we'll research it.
Schools near Downtown Moorpark
School attendance areas
Moorpark Unified School District
From MUSD's list of schools:
- Elementary and middle: MUSD publishes attendance areas only through its online locator
- High: Moorpark High School (The district's only comprehensive high school; MUSD publishes no high school boundary, and The High School at Moorpark College admits by application)
These come from the district's own data, not from this site; each tract page has its own answer. Assignment goes by address. Confirm with MUSD School Locator, or check an address here.
Public schools nearby
- Flory Academy of Sciences and Technology (240 Flory Ave.)
- Chaparral Middle School (280 Poindexter Ave.)
- Walnut Canyon Arts & Technology Magnet School (280 Casey Rd.)
Being nearby doesn't mean a school is assigned. Attendance goes by address and boundaries change; confirm with the district.
- Moorpark Unified School District: find the assigned schools for an address
- Ventura County Community College District (Moorpark College): find the assigned schools for an address
Services, representation & fire safety
These are Moorpark's area-wide providers; some vary by street.
| Police | Moorpark 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. |
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| Fire | Ventura 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 & sewer | Ventura 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. |
| Electric | Southern 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. |
| Gas | Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) (877) 238-0092 |
| Trash & recycling | WM (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 & recreation | City 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. |
| Library | Moorpark 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 services | City 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 transit | Moorpark City Transit and MCT On Demand; VCTC Intercity; Metrolink; Amtrak MCT On Demand microtransit costs $1 a trip. |
| Emergency alerts | VC 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 Hall | City of Moorpark (805) 517-6200 · 323 Science Drive. |
Who represents you: Mayor 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. · Ventura 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. Full list for Moorpark.
Fire safety: 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. More.
Homes for sale in and around Downtown Moorpark
Every MLS listing here, with photos, prices and details, is on Properkey.
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Where these facts come from
- City of Moorpark 2021-2029 Housing Element (revised draft), Neighborhoods section and Table 4-15 — moorparkca.gov
- City of Moorpark Specific Plans (Downtown Specific Plan) — moorparkca.gov
- City of Moorpark Landscaping & Lighting Assessment Districts Engineer's Report FY 2026-27 — moorparkca.gov
- Ventura County record map 8 MR 13: Map No. 1 of Tract O of Moorpark Subdivision (1915), which references the 1900 townsite map (5 MR 5) — maps.ventura.org
- Ventura County GIS record-map polygons (recording dates of downtown subdivisions) — maps.ventura.org
- City of Moorpark Current Developments (Pacific Communities; Civic Center Master Plan with new library) — moorparkca.gov
- City of Moorpark: Pacific Communities project — moorparkca.gov
- City of Moorpark History — moorparkca.gov
- City of Moorpark Park Locations map — moorparkca.gov
- Downtown Moorpark neighborhood page — redfin.com (real-estate site; not linked)
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