THE VENTURA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Venturan-Angeleno Coastal Hills setting.
Ventura County has 1,840.8 square miles of land in California. 10 mapped landscape regions meet across Ventura County: Venturan-Angeleno Coastal Hills, Western Transverse Range Lower Montane Shrub and Woodland, Oxnard Plain and Valleys, among others.
Coastal and alluvial plains alternate with low hills in southern California. Sage scrub, chaparral and oak communities characterize the region's natural coastal landscape.
Regional context: Southern California/Northern Baja Coast ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ventura County intersects 10 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Venturan-Angeleno Coastal Hills30.2%
- Western Transverse Range Lower Montane Shrub and Woodland25.7%
- Oxnard Plain and Valleys17.6%
- Northern Transverse Range14.1%
- Southern California Lower Montane Shrub and Woodland3.6%
Southern California Mountains in Ventura County
Southern California's higher mountains support chaparral, oak woodland and conifer stands. Elevation and slope direction produce distinct vegetation patterns across these Mediterranean-climate ranges.
Read the regional source ↗Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains in Ventura County
Oak woodland, chaparral and grassland occupy foothills and low coastal mountains around the Central Valley. Narrow agricultural valleys interrupt this landscape of dry summers and wetter winters.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Ventura County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ventura County, including Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Oxnard. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ventura County by land and water
The Census records 365.8 square miles of water within Ventura County, or 16.6% of its total area. That share is close to Ventura County’s 16.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ventura County has 332.9 times the land area of nearby Santa Paula city (5.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kern County, Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

