Calabasas, CA Homes for Sale

Calabasas is an incorporated Los Angeles County city, and a young one: voters approved cityhood in 1991, and the incorporated area runs about 11.3 square miles. The City's demographic page reports a 2020 Census population of 23,241. Government is a City Council that adopts ordinances and budgets and appoints the city manager, with the mayor selected annually from among the councilmembers.

A Calabasas mailing address is not proof of Calabasas jurisdiction. The City's own materials make the point with a pointed example: the Calabasas Landfill is neither owned by nor located within the City, sitting beyond the northwest boundary. Gated communities and hillside tracts around the edges can fall in unincorporated Los Angeles County, so confirm the parcel's incorporation status before assuming which planning department, permit process and service agencies apply.

Inside city limits, land use runs under the 2030 General Plan, adopted in December 2008 and updated in 2015, 2022 and 2023, with city-administered planning and building-safety functions. That update cadence means published zoning summaries age quickly here, and any project assumption should be checked against the current plan and parcel zoning rather than an older article.

The buyer profile skews toward gated and guard-gated communities in the Santa Monica Mountains foothills, where HOA layers sit on top of city requirements. Gate and HOA rules vary tract by tract, so verify a specific street's arrangement rather than assuming the community name implies it.