Overview
About Window Hills
Window Hills covers 49.4 acres off Serrano Avenue, and most of its streets are named for wood: Aspenwood, Burlwood, Leafwood, Rimwood and Smokewood, alongside Falling Leaf and Pine Canyon, 1.3 miles in all. The city records 160 addresses on 147 parcels, every one detached single family, with a median lot of 8,800 square feet. The general plan designates the whole boundary Residential Low at up to 6.5 homes to the acre, over Single-Family Residential zoning at a 5,000 square foot minimum on 40.9 acres.
Seventy-three of the 147 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record, almost exactly half. The city's footprint layer measures the houses at a median 2,413 square feet of ground floor and reads 120 as two-story against 25 single-story. The boundary is compact, filling 96 percent of the smallest shape that would contain it. It lies wholly in ZIP 92807 and in flood zone X, and Window Hills sits in Orange Unified School District, feeding Canyon High.
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How Window Hills was built
Window Hills is named for trees and lit by them. Aspenwood, Burlwood, Leafwood, Rimwood and Smokewood run through it, Falling Leaf crosses them, and Pine Canyon Drive takes the name of the canyon itself. That was a deliberate choice, not decoration: the Anaheim Hills plan kept the sycamore, oak and eucalyptus that were already growing on these slopes through construction, and handed close to a thousand acres of the community to public agencies rather than building on it.
Anaheim Hills itself began on 30 October 1970, when Santa Anita Consolidated took deed to 4,200 acres of the ranch to build a planned community, and a Texaco Ventures joint venture took over the residential land in August 1971. The first neighborhood, Westridge, opened in July 1972, and the city bought a separate 300 acres for a golf course that Richard Bigler laid out and that opened the same year. Window Hills belongs to the first decade of that build out. Its hundred and sixty homes date from 1974 to 1979, with 1977 the median year, on lots of about eight thousand eight hundred square feet, and seventy three of them have a pool. Serrano Avenue runs along the edge, carrying a Californio family name that turns up all over this end of the county.
By the Numbers
Window Hills by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Window Hills lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Window Hills
Window Hills lies within Orange Unified School District. Its campuses in Anaheim are listed below, each with its grade span and its enrollment on the 2024-25 federal count.
9-12 · 2,183 students
7-8 · 1,144 students
K-6 · 805 students
K-8 · 643 students
K-6 · 524 students
K-6 · 509 students
K-6 · 476 students
K-6 · 389 students
K-12 · 109 students
FAQs
Common questions about Window Hills
When was Window Hills built?
Its four principal tract maps were all recorded in 1976 by C.A. Reynolds Civil Engineers, over an earlier 1974 map. All 145 buildings that carry a year on the city's footprint layer fall between 1974 and 1979, with the middle year at 1977.
How big is Window Hills?
It covers 49.4 acres on the boundary the City of Anaheim publishes, with 160 addresses across 147 parcels, all detached single family.
What kind of homes are in Window Hills?
Detached single family houses on lots with a median of 8,800 square feet under zoning that sets a 5,000 square foot minimum. The footprint layer reads 120 as two-story and 25 as single-story, at a median 2,413 square feet of ground floor.
Do homes in Window Hills have pools?
Seventy-three of the 147 parcels inside the boundary carry a pool on the county assessor record the city publishes, almost exactly half.
Which schools serve Window Hills?
It sits in Orange Unified School District. The schools page for this community lists each of the district's Anaheim campuses with its grade span and its enrollment on the 2024-25 federal count.