Agoura Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, located in the Santa Monica Mountains region. It lies about 35 miles northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and is part of the eastern Conejo Valley. The city is surrounded by Calabasas, Oak Park, and Westlake Village, with a population of around 20,299 as of the 2020 census.
The area was first home to the Chumash Native Americans nearly 10,000 years ago. In the late 1700s, Spanish missionaries settled the region, and by the early 1800s, it became part of the Rancho Las Virgenes land grant. The historic Reyes Adobe, now a museum, dates back to this period.
By the early 1900s, Agoura Hills was a stagecoach stop due to its natural spring. In the 1920s, it became known as Picture City because Paramount Pictures used the nearby Paramount Ranch for filming Westerns. The community later adopted the name Agoura Hills in 1927, a variation of the name of local rancher Pierre Agoure, a French immigrant who settled there in 1871.









