Los Angeles Relocation Guide - Antevia

A typical stretch of Valencia Boulevard in the Valencia part of Santa Clarita. The bridgein the distance carries a paseo (a type of dedicated pedestrian pathway unique toValencia) over the roadway.Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.As of the 2005 California Department of Finance estimate, the city population was167,954. It is located about 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, and occupiesmost of the Santa Clarita Valley. It is a notable example of a U.S. edge city or boomburb.The FBI rates it as the sixth safest city in the United States with at least 100,000inhabitants. (Nearby Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks, in Ventura County, traditionallyalternate between the first and second spots on the list.)Santa Clarita was incorporated in 1987 as the union of several previously existingcommunities, including Saugus, Valencia, Canyon Country, Newhall, and portions ofCastaic. Its principal boundaries are the Golden State and Antelope Valley freeways;their merger in Newhall Pass at the city's southernmost point gives Santa Clarita itsdistinctive triangular appearance on the map. Unlike many other hybrid cities' districts,communities in Santa Clarita retain a considerable degree of autonomy, to the extent thatsome of them--Valencia, most notably--are often mistaken for completely separate cities.Santa Clarita's most notable attractions are the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusementpark on the western edge of the city, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts),located in Valencia.As the city is hemmed in by mountains on all sides (the Tehachapis on the north, the SanGabriels on the east, and the Santa Susanas on the south and west) and is primarily relianton the automobile for transportation, it suffers from chronic smog. It is also prone towildfires, as demonstrated by the destruction of large undeveloped areas around the cityduring blazes in 2003 and 2004.GeographySanta Clarita is located at 34°24′60″N, 118°30′23″W (34.416561, -118.506443) GR1 .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 123.9 km²(47.8 mi²). 123.9 km² (47.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it (0.04%) is water.