Overview
About Carrier Row
Carrier Row is the first of the sixteen neighborhoods the City of Los Alamitos numbers on Figure 2 of its Land Use Element, 69.5 acres zoned Single Family Residential. The county records 312 parcels against 317 addresses, close to one home each, on lots that run to about 0.17 acres. Eleven named streets cover 2.52 miles inside the boundary, and nine of them carry the names of United States Navy aircraft carriers: Bunker Hill, Enterprise, Essex, Langley, Midway, Ranger, Saratoga, Tarawa and Ticonderoga. Only Green and Howard, the two through streets, do not.
No public park sits inside the boundary. The city's Open Space Element counts Carrier Row among four neighborhoods whose residents cannot easily walk to park space in Los Alamitos, and the answer it sets out is a pocket park within a quarter mile of the neighborhood it serves. The city's 18 acres of public park are all a short drive away, the largest being Little Cottonwood Park on Farquhar Avenue at close to seven acres with a basketball court, a sand volleyball court and a softball field. Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the neighborhood, with Oak Middle at 10821 Oak Street enrolling 1,017, McAuliffe Middle at 4112 Cerritos Avenue enrolling 1,031 and Los Alamitos High at 3591 Cerritos Avenue enrolling 2,809.
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How Carrier Row was built
Read the street signs here and you are reading a fleet list. Bunkerhill, Enterprise, Essex, Langley, Midway, Ranger, Saratoga, Tarawa and Ticonderoga were all United States Navy aircraft carriers, and Langley was the first one the Navy ever commissioned, a converted collier that went into service in 1922. The names were not decoration. A touch and go field went in on the flat ground east of town in August 1940, the first military post in Orange County, and the Naval Reserve Air Base moved its operations here from Long Beach in May 1942. When the war ended, a good number of the men who had flown and serviced those aircraft simply stayed.
Carrier Row is what they stayed for. It is not one subdivision but three, put up by different builders across eight years. The first was Alamos Ranchos, first occupied in April 1948. Two more blocks followed in 1950 as Plainview Homes, and the last piece was finished in 1955 as Los Alamitos Park. County records carry a build year on more than three hundred of these homes, with a median of 1951 and nothing older than 1948 or newer than 1955, which is exactly the shape of a neighborhood built in one short postwar push.
By the Numbers
Carrier Row by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Carrier Row lifestyle
The city keeps 18 acres of public park across four neighborhood parks and five pocket parks. Little Cottonwood Park on Farquhar Avenue is the largest of them at 6.75 acres, with a basketball court, a sand volleyball court and a softball field. Coyote Creek Park opened in 2013 and turned a bare utility corridor into a 3.69 acre greenway along the Coyote Creek Channel.
Laurel Park runs to 4.33 acres on Bloomfield Street with a lighted multipurpose field and lighted tennis courts, and it has hosted the Los Alamitos Girls Softball League since 1974. The Aquatic Center, which the city leases and operates, is home to the USA Water Polo National Training Center and an outdoor 50 meter pool.
Schools
Schools serving Carrier Row
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the whole of Carrier Row. The campuses below are the district's, with enrollment from the state's 2025-26 census day count. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.
9-12 · 2,809 students
6-8 · 1,031 students
6-8 · 1,017 students
K-5 · 680 students
K-5 · 641 students
K-5 · 638 students
K-5 · 636 students
K-5 · 603 students
K-5 · 569 students
FAQs
Common questions about Carrier Row
What are the streets in Carrier Row named for?
Nine of the eleven carry the names of United States Navy aircraft carriers: Bunker Hill, Enterprise, Essex, Langley, Midway, Ranger, Saratoga, Tarawa and Ticonderoga. Green and Howard, the two through streets, are the exceptions. The Naval Air Station moved to Los Alamitos in 1942 and the whole neighborhood was built between 1948 and 1955.
When were the homes in Carrier Row built?
Between 1948 and 1955. The county carries a build year on all 312 parcels inside the boundary and not one falls outside those eight years, with half of them dated 1951 or before.
How big is Carrier Row and what are the lots like?
The boundary the city draws encloses 69.5 acres. The county records 312 parcels and 317 addresses inside it, close to one home per lot, and the middle of the lot size range is 0.17 acres. Eleven named streets cover 2.52 miles.
Is there a park inside Carrier Row?
No. The city's Open Space Element names Carrier Row as one of four neighborhoods whose residents cannot easily walk to park space inside Los Alamitos, alongside New Dutch Haven, Greenbrook and Highlands, and the remedy it sets out is a pocket park within a quarter mile of the neighborhood it serves. Little Cottonwood Park, the largest in the city at close to seven acres, is a short drive south.
Which schools serve Carrier Row?
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers all of it. The district enrolls 603 students at Los Alamitos Elementary on Bloomfield Street, 1,017 at Oak Middle on Oak Street, 1,031 at Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle on Cerritos Avenue and 2,809 at Los Alamitos High at 3591 Cerritos Avenue. All nine of the district's comprehensive schools have been honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools, California Distinguished Schools, or both. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.