Thousand Oaks is the second-largest city in Ventura County and known as one of the safest cities in America, according to consistent FBI reporting. It is named after the many oak trees present in the area and is the core of the Conejo Valley

Incorporated in 1964, it is home to approximately 126,966 residents. Designated open-space nature areas occupy 34 percent of the city and it features Wildwood Regional Park which offers miles of hiking trails and a waterfall.

Culture ranks high on the things that attract people to this community. Jungleland USA put Thousand Oaks on the map in the 1920s and helped attract Hollywood producers to the city and as a result, hundreds of movies have been filmed in Thousand Oaks. Movie actor Joel McCrea raised his family on a 3,000-acre ranch he had acquired in the early 1930s which tourists can now visit.

It also offers the Chumash Interpretive Center which is home to multiple 2,000 year-old pictographs and the Chumash Indian Museum on Lang Ranch Parkway which has displays of Chumash artifacts and a reconstructed Chumash village. The Conejo Valley Art museum, Thousand Oaks Community Art Gallery and William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art appeal to those with a love of art while music and plays can be enjoyed at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts and the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza which is home to two theaters: the 1,800-seat Fred Kavli Theatre and Ray Scherr Forum Theatre. Other events include Conejo Valley Days, the OakHeart Country Music Festival and the annual Scandinavian Festival.

Thousand Oaks is served by the Conejo Valley Unified School District which is known for several schools scoring in the top ten percent of schools in California. California Lutheran University, a private liberal arts university was California's first four-year liberal arts college and has been home to the NFL Rams for their training operations on the CLU campus.

For school information click this link for Conejo Valley Unified School District: https://www.conejousd.org

Private schools: Ascension Lutheran, Bethany Christian, La Reina, Oaks Christian, Hillcrest Christian, St. Jude the Apostle, and St. Paschal Baylon, 

Local Parks & Recreation:

• Conejo Creek North Park
• El Parque de la Paz
• Lang Ranch Neighborhood Park
• Lynn Oaks Park
• Oakbrook Neighborhood Park
• Conejo Community Park
• Northwood ParkOakbrook Regional Park
• Old Meadows Park
• Spring Meadow Park
• Sunset Hills Park
• Thousand Oaks Community Park
• Walnut Grove Park
• Wildwood Regional Park