Los Alamitos, street by street

In one line: Los Alamitos is four square miles with a small-town center on Pine Street, 1950s and 1960s single-family tracts spread around ten city parks, townhome and condo communities near the main roads, and a military base that takes up much of the map. The median sale price citywide was $1,471,799 in three months ending September 2026, but detached homes and attached homes are two different markets, so the street matters more than the citywide number.

Old Town and Pine Street

The city's original blocks sit around Pine Street and Katella Avenue, where the sugar-beet town of 1896 grew up. This is where the city closes the street for Winter Wonderland every December (real snow, an ice rink, about 7,500 people in 2025) and where the summer concert series runs. Soroptimist Park, a quarter-acre at 10822 Pine Street, is the smallest park in town and sits right in the middle of it. Homes here are a mix of older cottages, small apartment buildings and newer townhomes near the Town Center mixed-use district.

Carrier Row and Los Alamitos Park

South and west of Katella, the Carrier Row subdivision was built in 1955 and Los Alamitos Park came with it. Orville R. Lewis Jr. Park (3662 Kempton Drive, about 1.7 acres with room for a soccer or baseball practice) anchors the streets nearby. These are the classic Los Alamitos single-family blocks: three-bedroom ranches, many expanded, on quiet streets a short walk from the schools.

The Farquhar corridor

Little Cottonwood Park (4000 Farquhar Avenue) is the city's largest park, with two playgrounds, half-court basketball, a volleyball court and reservable picnic pavilions; Sterns Park (3871 Farquhar) is a few blocks away and was slated for a rebuild funded by federal block grants and the city's Measure Y. The streets between them are family blocks of 1950s and 1960s homes.

Bloomfield and the Oak Street side

Laurel Park (10862 Bloomfield Street) has baseball and tennis, restrooms and lights, and the city's new dog park opened beside it. Oak Middle School's fields are nearby, and Roberts Park (10911 Oak Street) and Coyote Creek Park (10821 Oak Street) sit along the Coyote Creek channel on the city's edge. This side of town is the quieter, more residential end, with Cypress just across the creek.

Howard and Toland

Labourdette Park (4401 Howard Avenue, rebuilt in 2025) and Stansbury Park (3711 Toland Avenue) serve the streets north of Katella near the hospital and the base. Homes here are a mix of single-family and attached, and some streets sit under the base's flight path: Eunice shows homes here at two different times of day for that reason.

The base and the hospital

Two things shape the map. The Joint Forces Training Base, a Navy reserve air station from 1941 on 1,300 acres, takes up a large part of the city; it hosts the Fourth of July show and the Race on the Base reverse triathlon each February (February 28 in 2026). UCI Health – Los Alamitos, the 167-bed hospital at 3751 Katella Avenue (Tenet's Los Alamitos Medical Center until UCI Health took over in March 2024), is the city's largest employer. Katella Deli, feeding the town since the 1960s, is the landmark in between.

Rossmoor, next door

Across the line to the southwest is Rossmoor: unincorporated, all single-family, same ZIP code, same school district. Its median sale price ($1,749,167) runs above Los Alamitos ($1,471,799) because Rossmoor has no condos or apartments to pull its average down. The plain-English comparison explains how to tell which one a listing is in.

Prices by home type

All home types, three months ending September 2026. Source: Redfin Data Center (MLS and public records): Los Alamitos · Rossmoor · Cypress · Seal Beach. Areas with few sales swing month to month.

Redfin's citywide figure blends condos, townhomes and houses. Within Los Alamitos, detached homes on the single-family streets sell well above the citywide median; townhomes and condos sell below it. Ask Eunice for the split by home type for any street.

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