Inside the Map: Every MLS Area, HOA and Landmark in Los Angeles and Orange County

Clients ask me where Valmonte actually ends, which streets feed Lunada Bay Elementary, whether the house on the south slope is in an HOA and who runs it, and what the area code on a listing means. Those are questions about geography, not square footage, and answering them is most of what I do. So the map I use to answer them lives on this site, and in 2026 it grew from the South Bay to all of Los Angeles and Orange County.

What is on it

• Every MLS area in both counties, 478 of them. The South Bay and Palos Verdes areas are the ones I drew by hand. The rest are built from public boundaries, and the ones that are still a first pass say so.
• HOA boundaries for about 1,800 associations, with the management company, phone and email where the cities and county records have them, and which ones are voluntary.
• Landmarks: beaches, parks, golf courses, shopping centers, colleges, hospitals, airports, rail stations, arenas and museums, with my own picks on the Peninsula marked.
• Parks and open space, city lines, Los Angeles County communities, zip code areas, school districts and every public school in both counties.
• Census facts on every area, zip, city and district: population, households, homes, owner share, and medians where the Census publishes them.

Where the lines come from

City limits come from the two counties. Los Angeles neighborhoods come from the LA Times Mapping L.A. project. HOA boundaries come from the cities that publish them and from recorded tract maps where they do not. Parks come from the California Protected Areas Database. Schools come from the state's directory with enrollment from the federal Common Core of Data. MLS areas are the one layer nobody publishes, which is why each area on the map says how its outline was built. I would rather show you an honest approximation with a label than a clean line that is wrong.

How to use it

• Search any city, area, HOA, landmark, school or zip in the box at the top left and the map jumps there.
• Turn layers on and off in the list at the right. MLS areas are on at load; the rest wait until you ask.
• Click anything for its write up, its facts and a link to the full page, and every area guide and HOA page links back to its spot on the map.
• Open it from a listing. The area guides and the MLS area pages all carry a See It on the Map button that opens the exact outline.

It is a living tool. The first pass MLS areas get redrawn as I check them, HOA contacts get rechecked each year, and my own notes keep going in. When a line on the map raises a question, that is what I am for. Open the map.