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Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County upon its western attach with Ventura County. It incorporated in 1981 becoming the 82nd municipality of Los Angeles County. The population of the city was 8,029 at the 2020 census, down from 8,270 at the 2010 census.

The city is named after the master-planned community of Westlake that was future called Westlake Village to avoid confusion past the Los Angeles neighborhood of the same name. With a lake at the center, the community straddles the line amid Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Roughly two-thirds of the community was in the past annexed into the city of Thousand Oaks.

History

About 3,000 years ago, Chumash Indians moved into the region and lived by hunting rabbits and supplementary game, and stock grains and acorns. On-going excavations, archaeological sites, and polychrome rock paintings in the area provide a glimpse into the social and economic difficulty of the ancient Chumash world.

It is unknown as soon as the first people approved in the area. A Chumash village was settled here in 500 BCE, known as Hipuc. The Chumash Indians gathered and prepared acorns and extra seeds. These were collected in the fall. The Chumash also hunted wild animals, fish and gathered plants. Their diet consisted of acorns, gophers, cottontail rabbits, skunks, jack rabbits, rats, mice, and seeds. They made their clothing from the skins of animals such as rabbits, deer, and sea otters. Women wore long skirts woven from grass or soft bark, while men wore pieces of deerskin tied something like their waists. Both men and women painted designs on their bodies and wore shell beads.

On a return vacation from Northern California in January 1770, a organization of men led by Gaspar de Portolá are believed to be the first Europeans to engagement the Chumash Indians in the Conejo Valley. Father Juan Crespí, chaplain and diarist of the expedition, wrote just about El Triumfo, a Chumash village. He wrote that there was profusion of water and firewood in the village, and that the home was covered when pastures. He wrote: “We are on a plain of considerable extent and much beauty, forested on all parts by conscious oaks and oak trees, with much pasturage and water.” Crespí named the place El triunfo del Dulcísimo Nombre de Jesús (in English: The Triumph of the Sweetest Name of Jesus) to a camping place by a creek.

Other villages were found throughout the valley, including Satwiwa and two villages close Ventu Park Road in Newbury Park. These Chumash villages are believed by archeologists to have first been settled on culmination of 2,000 years ago. Another village was located by Lake Sherwood.

In 1795, the area became portion of one of the first Spanish house grants, Rancho Simi, given to the Pico relations of California. When Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, Alta California became Mexican territory, and the Rancho Simi allow was avowed in 1842.

At the epoch California was admitted to the union in 1850, most of the house that far along became Ventura County was not speaking among and no-one else 19 families. Rising knolls, arroyos, barrancas and ancient oaks were found on two Mexican estate grants: Rancho El Conejo and Rancho Las Virgenes.

In 1881, the Russell brothers purchased a large ration of the estate for cattle ranching. According to Patricia Allen, historian and associates descendant, Andrew Russell beat the competition in buying the house by racing across 6,000 acres (24 km) on a fifteen-minute trip in a buckboard and sealed the deal with a $20 gold piece. The price per acre was $2.50. The area continued to be known as the Russell Ranch although it was sold in 1925 to William Randolph Hearst and again in 1943 to Fred Albertson. The Russell relatives leased encourage part of the land to continue its booming cattle ranch operation though the Albertson Company used the gigantic area as a movie ranch. Many movies and television shows were filmed in the Conejo Valley, including Robin Hood, King Rat, Laredo, and various episodes of Tarzan, Buck Rogers, Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The 1940 film Danger Ahead was filmed upon Westlake Boulevard.

In 1963, Daniel K. Ludwig’s American-Hawaiian Steamship Company bought the 12,000 acre (49 km) ranch for $32 million and, in partnership behind Prudential Insurance Company, commissioned the preparation of a master ambition by architectural and planning complete A. C. Martin and Associates. This new “city in the country” planned to have a supreme economic base including public notice areas, residential neighborhoods, and passable green space in imitation of the lake as a focal point. Prominent architects, engineers, and land planners participated in designing the other community, a distinctive example of planned 1960s-style suburbanism.

The indigenous tract was estranged by the Los Angeles/Ventura county line. In 1968 and 1972, two portions of the Westlake fee consisting of 8,544 acres (35 km) on the Ventura County side were annexed into the city of Thousand Oaks. In 1981, the Los Angeles County portion (3,456 acres (13.99 km) or in the region of 1/3) of the Westlake master-planned community was incorporated as the City of Westlake Village. California state put-on prevents a city from existing in two separate counties.

Geography

In adjunct to bodily a bedroom community for Los Angeles via the Ventura (101) Freeway, it is also home to many large advertisement offices and the headquarters of the Dole Food Company, K-Swiss and J.D. Power and Associates. The western region office (Region 5) of Anheuser-Busch Inc. is next located in the community. Pacific Coast Highway, and the Ronald Reagan (118) Freeway also control nearby. It is a gruff drive to the nearest mall in Thousand Oaks.

Much of Westlake Village is surrounded by open space, including hiking and horse trails, as with ease as the huge Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The town is in the northwestern Santa Monica Mountains area, and is 9 miles (14 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean. The Place is within a wildlife corridor linking the Santa Monica Mountains with new undeveloped habitat. Mountain lions have been seen roaming the neighborhoods. The lake lies within the watershed of Malibu Creek. Water from the lake must be released into the creek in agreement with an taking over between the California State Water Resources Control Board and the Westlake Lake Management Association, a private entity that oversees the operation of the lake.

Westlake Village has several golf courses and country clubs: the Westlake Golf Course, Sherwood Country Club, and North Ranch Country Club.

Over one half of the original “Westlake” development lies west across the county line, wholly within the city limits of Thousand Oaks. This boundary which divides the Incorporated City of Westlake Village, and Thousand Oaks part of Westlake Village, crosses beyond the Westlake Golf Course, halfway along with Lakeview Canyon and Lindero Canyon roads, and half of the Lake itself. Lake Sherwood is nearby.

The City of Westlake Village is located nearly 40 miles (64 km) West of downtown Los Angeles in the Conejo Valley. Other communities in the surrounding Place include Thousand Oaks, Oak Park, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Newbury Park, and Malibu.

Climate

Coastal breezes seep through canyons to permit Westlake to sometimes be in the works to 10 degrees cooler and considerably less uncertain than comprehensible San Fernando Valley during the summer months. However, it generally remains 10 degrees hotter than the coastal plains under the Conejo Grade, in the communities of Santa Rosa Valley, Camarillo, and Ventura accompanied by others.

Demographics

2010

The 2010 United States Census reported that the self-incorporated part of Westlake Village, on the Los Angeles County side, had a population of 8,270. The population density was 1,502.4 inhabitants per square mile (580.1/km²). The racial makeup of Westlake Village was 7,326 (88.6%) white (83.9% non-Hispanic white), 98 (1.2%) African American, 12 (0.1%) Native American, 490 (5.9%) Asian, 13 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 114 (1.4%) from extra races, and 217 (2.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 533 persons (6.4%).

The Census reported that 8,142 people (98.5% of the population) lived in households, 121 (1.5%) lived in non-institutionalized society quarters, and 7 (0.1%) were institutionalized.

There were 3,262 households, out of which 971 (29.8%) had children under the age of 18 vibrant in them, 1,985 (60.9%) were married couples vibrant together, 292 (9.0%) had a female householder in imitation of no husband present, 119 (3.6%) had a male householder afterward no wife present. There were 103 (3.2%) unmarried partnerships. 712 households (21.8%) were made in the works of individuals, and 376 (11.5%) had someone successful alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50. There were 2,396 families (73.5% of all households); the average associates size was 2.92.

The population was development out, with 1,737 people (21.0%) under the age of 18, 479 people (5.8%) aged 18 to 24, 1,380 people (16.7%) aged 25 to 44, 2,917 people (35.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,757 people (21.2%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males.

There were 3,384 housing units at an average density of 614.7 per square mile (237.3/km), of which 2,745 (84.2%) were owner-occupied, and 517 (15.8%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.0%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.4%. 6,906 people (83.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 1,236 people (14.9%) lived in rental housing units.

According to the 2010 United States Census, Westlake Village had a median household pension of $112,083, with 3.9% of the population living under the federal poverty line.

2000

As of the census of 2000, there were 8,469 people, 3,270 households, and 2,491 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,605.9 inhabitants per square mile (620.0 inhabitants/km). There were 3,347 housing units at an average density of 642.3 per square mile (248.0/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 89.70% White, 6.08% Asian, 0.82% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.02% from additional races, and 2.17% from two or more races, plus one of California’s largest communities for Russian American and American Jewish ancestral groups. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.61% of the population. Many locals (the Conejo Valley and Simi Valley region in general) were of Italian, Portuguese and Spanish ethnic origins.^{[citation needed]}

The median allowance for a household in the city was $120,089, and the median pension for a relations was $148,885. The per-capita pension for the city was $137,355 in 2007, while the median house price was (as of 2007) $1,163,800.

There were 3,270 households, out of which 32.3% had children under the age of 18 living subsequently them, 65.8% were married couples blooming together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.8% were non-families. 19.3% of all households were made going on of individuals, and 7.9% had someone busy alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average relations size was 2.93.

In the city, the age distribution of the population showed 23.8% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 31.9% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.7 males. About 2.5% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.6% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

Dole Food Company is headquartered in Westlake Village. In 1994, Dole announced that it would finalize its plans to build its world headquarters upon a 30-acre (120,000 m) site owned by the company, located north of the Ventura Freeway in Westlake Village. The decision had been delayed by groundwater contamination tests and reviewing of viable site mean revisions. Dole was customary to concur its plans for unmovable approval by the Westlake Village City Council on February 9, 1994. K-Swiss, Guitar Center, PennyMac Loan Services and Ryland Homes then have their headquarters in Westlake Village.

Top employers

According to the city’s 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:

Government

In the come clean legislature Westlake Village is located in California’s 27th State Senate district, represented by Democrat Henry Stern, and in California’s 44th State Assembly district, represented by Democrat Jacqui Irwin. Federally, Westlake Village is located in California’s 26th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +2 and is represented by Democrat Julia Brownley.

As of May 2009, 1,943 (33%) of the 5,876 registered voters in Westlake Village are registered as Democrats, 2,583 (44%) as Republicans, and 1,101 (19%) declined to let in a party affiliation.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department operates the Malibu/Lost Hills Station in Calabasas, serving Westlake Village.

Infrastructure

The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District supplies potable, recycled and wastewater facilities to residents and businesses in Westlake Village.

Education

The community is in the Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD). Residents are zoned to White Oak Elementary School in Westlake Village, Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills, and Agoura High School in Agoura Hills.

An off-campus middle of California Lutheran University is located understandable in Thousand Oaks.

In popular culture

Westlake Village was house to Russell Ranch which was used to film Robin Hood (1922), Come On, Tarzan (1932), Buck Rogers (1939), King Rat (1965), Laredo (1965–67), Gunsmoke (1955–1975) and Bonanza (1959–1973). The Lash (1930) was plus filmed at Russell Ranch, while Danger Ahead (1940) was shot upon Westlake Boulevard. Baxter (GTE corporate headquarters at the time) was dubbed for a police station in the film Demolition Man (1993), while scenes from Gridiron Gang (2006) were shot at Westlake High School. Other movies filmed here include The Karate Kid (1984), American Pie (1999) and Bridesmaids (2011).

Two episodes of Charlie’s Angels (1976–1981) were filmed in Westlake Village: The Killing Kind (1976) and Angel in a Box (1979).

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) features scenes from Skelton Canyon Road (Westlake Boulevard),
while the TV series The FBI (1965–1974) was partly filmed at The Landing.

Recreation

Adjacent to Westlake Village is Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, which offers birds trails for hikers, backpackers, mountain bikers, equestrians, picnickers, and campers.

Parks

Parks include:

Notable people

References

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