Oak HillsCA
9,013 residents make their home in this town in California.
Is Oak Hills a good place to live?
The weak point is cost of living: the typical home is worth about $528K, 5.9 years of the Riverside metro’s $90K median household income. Overall, Oak Hills earns a D, better than 8% of U.S. towns. Its place in the ranking is 646th of 841 in California. Hazard risk is weaker too: FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 85% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Oak Hills’ typical journey to work is 52 minutes, where California’s towns sit at 28 minutes and U.S. towns at 25 minutes. Oak Hills’ concentration of trails is 3.2 miles per square mile, against 1.0 in California’s towns and 0.4 across U.S. towns. Its other grades sit near the middle: B− for health and B− for incomes.
Figures: home values, Zillow · incomes, Census ACS, 2020–24 · FEMA National Risk Index · health, CDC PLACES · OpenStreetMap.
98% of working residents leave Oak Hills for work
Where Oak Hills’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Oak Hills grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Oak Hills is from typical.
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Moving to Oak Hills: who provides what
Oak Hills is unincorporated, so San Bernardino County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Oak Hills.
Oak Hills is healthier than Phelan and its other neighbors and sends most of its workers to Victorville and beyond.
Open space protected for good: 0.1% of Oak Hills
Trails total 77 miles in 1 park or preserve. Parks and preserves in Oak Hills: one, of 15 acres.
| Oak Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 3.2 miles per square mile | 1.0 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 0.1% | 4.3% | 4.3% |
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. San Bernardino National Forest | — | 15 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Oak Hills’ public schools trail 63% of California districts
The public schools here belong to the Hesperia Unified school district. The largest public high school is Oak Hills High, with 2,370 students. Its one school is below.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hills HighLargest public high schoolGrades 9–12 | Grades 9–12 | 2,370 | B− |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Top of a very high hazard risk in Oak Hills: earthquakes
Expected losses in Oak Hills break down as 49% from earthquakes and 34% from inland flooding. Households locally have drawn federal disaster aid in 5 declared disasters, most recently in 2023.
FEMA disaster declarations and aid · FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
The average trip to work in Oak Hills is longer than in the typical California or U.S. town
Oak Hills has 768 jobs for its 3,387 working residents: even if every job went to a resident, most would still commute out. The average commute takes 52 minutes, against 28.7 across California.
The median commute is under 26 miles. The share of working residents in Oak Hills who work locally: 1.7%. Jobs in Oak Hills grew by 384 from 2013 to 2023, reaching 768. The top destinations are Victorville (9%), San Bernardino (8%) and Hesperia (8%).
| Oak Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 52 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.7% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Median household income | $101,000 | $95,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
On CDC estimates, Oak Hills is less healthy than 55% of U.S. towns
Its B− for health tops all 3 graded neighbors; Phelan (C) comes closest. Against the 8,392 U.S. towns with household incomes like Oak Hills’s, it is less healthy than 80%, so it trails even them.
For adults in Oak Hills, the share who say their health is fair or poor is 25%. In Oak Hills, 71% of adults had a checkup this year.
| Oak Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 71% | 72% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 19% |
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 37% | 36% | 33% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | Oak Hills | CA |
|---|---|---|
| More adults with COPD | 6.6% | 5.1% |
| More smokers | 13.7% | 10.9% |
| More adults with arthritis | 25.9% | 20.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
The median home in Oak Hills sells for about $590K
For Oak Hills, the rent at the middle of the market is $1,724 a month. Among households locally, 85% live in a home they own. Homes sold in Oak Hills spent a median 51 days on the market.
| Oak Hills | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 85% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,724 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Mount San Antonio and 37 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Oak Hills. Close and well known come first.
16 mi MountainMount San Antonio
24 mi Stadium & arenaToyota Arena
26 mi LakeBig Bear Lake
39 mi MountainSan Gorgonio Mountain
13 mi TheatreGlen Helen Amphitheater32 mi Theme parkRaging WatersPhoto credits
Mount San Antonio: The original uploader was Tillman at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · Toyota Arena: jondoeforty1, CC BY 2.0 · Big Bear Lake: H.G. Judd, CC BY-SA 3.0 · San Gorgonio Mountain: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Glen Helen Amphitheater: Alonzo, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Oak Hills
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of Oak Hills
About 9 of every 100 Oak Hills residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
About Oak Hills
Census-designated place in California, United States
Oak Hills is a census-designated place in the Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California.
From Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · facts via Wikidata (CC0)
- Area
- 24 sq mi
- Elevation
- 3,799 ft
Oak Hills’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Oak Hills.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Phelan (D−) comes closest.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Hills | #646 | D | D | — | C+ | B− |
| Hesperia | #740 | D− | C− | — | C+ | C− |
| Phelan | #710 | D− | C− | — | C+ | C |
| Victorville | #789 | D− | C− | — | C− | C− |
Oak Hills, Hesperia, Phelan and Victorville report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Oak Hills with a neighbor →
Questions about Oak Hills
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Oak Hills, CA a good place to live?
Oak Hills grades D overall, better than 8% of U.S. towns and #646 of 841 in California. It grades B− for health and C+ for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D.
Is Oak Hills, CA expensive?
Yes. The typical home is worth about $528,000, 31% below the California typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D.