Overview
About East Hills
East Hills covers 177.8 acres between Santa Ana Canyon Road and the ridge above it, on 29 named streets over 4.2 miles. The naming runs in themes: berries on Blackberry, Blueberry, Loganberry and Raspberry, herbs and spices on Anise, Basil and Saffron, and woods on Amberwood, Birchwood, Frostwood, Jutewood, Kirkwood, Larkwood and Sagewood. The city records 691 addresses on 656 parcels, 654 of them detached single family, with a median lot of 5,250 square feet.
Fifty-three of the 177.8 acres are designated Open Space and a further 5.8 Parks, and Sycamore Park, a ten-acre neighborhood park, has 55 percent of its area inside the boundary. One hundred and six of the 656 parcels carry a pool on the assessor record. The city's footprint layer reads 318 of the buildings as single-story against 288 at two, at a median 1,457 square feet of ground floor. Everything falls in ZIP 92808 and in flood zone X. East Hills sits in Orange Unified School District and feeds Canyon High.
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How East Hills was built
East Hills sits on the last of the working ranches at the east end of Anaheim. Through the mid 1980s the city annexed the Bauer, Oak Hills and Wallace ranches and added 1,300 acres to Anaheim Hills, and Bauer Road still runs through this neighborhood carrying the ranch name. Longer ago it was all Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, granted to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Juan Pablo Peralta in July 1810, and then the Bixby holdings, and then the cattle range Louis E. Nohl bought in 1943.
The houses came quickly. Nearly all of the 691 addresses here were built between 1983 and 1987, with 1984 the median year, which is why the neighborhood reads as one piece rather than a patchwork. Sycamore Park, opened in 1991 on Monte Vista Road and named for the native California sycamores that grow there, sits inside the boundary with ball fields, courts and a trailhead into the hills.
By the Numbers
East Hills by the numbers
Lifestyle
The East Hills lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving East Hills
East 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 East Hills
Why are the streets in East Hills named after berries?
The 29 street names inside the boundary run in themes. Blackberry, Blueberry, Loganberry and Raspberry make one set, Anise, Basil and Saffron another, and Amberwood, Birchwood, Frostwood, Jutewood, Kirkwood, Larkwood and Sagewood a third.
When was East Hills built?
Between 1983 and 1987. The four tract maps were recorded in 1984 and 1985, and every one of the 625 buildings that carries a year on the city's footprint layer falls in that five-year span, with the middle year at 1984.
How big is East Hills?
It covers 177.8 acres on the boundary the City of Anaheim publishes, with 691 addresses across 656 parcels.
Is there a park in East Hills?
Sycamore Park lies partly inside the boundary. The park runs to ten acres and 55 percent of it falls within East Hills, alongside 53.4 acres the general plan designates Open Space.
Which schools serve East 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.