Downey, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
160 ft 50 m130 ft 40 m120 ft 35 m99 ft 30 m75 ft 23 m63 ft 19 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- City area
- Fades everything outside the official city limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Downey sits at about 110 ft (35 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
110 ft 35 m
most residents: 95–140 ft
Lowest
63 ft 19 m
on the southwest side
Highest
160 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Average
110 ft 35 m
all land inside city limits
Downey spans about 97 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 110 ft35 m |
| Highest point Inside city limits, on the northeast side | 160 ft50 m |
| Lowest point Inside city limits, on the southwest side | 63 ft19 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Downey | 120 ft35 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 5.8 mi south of the city limits | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 110 ft35 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
4.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- City in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 109,368 2024 est.
- Land area
- 12.4 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 8,814 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9400° N, 118.1326° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Long Beach (Daugherty Field) (LGB) 60 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 90240 90241 90242
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Pico Rivera170 ft
- West Whittier-Los Nietos160 ft
- Maywood160 ft
- Bell140 ft
- Santa Fe Springs140 ft
- Cudahy130 ft
- Bell Gardens130 ft
- Downey110 ft
- Norwalk91 ft
- Paramount74 ft
- Bellflower72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,301st highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County113th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Waterman Mountain8,030 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the city limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census city limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 60 ft at 33.9132° N, 118.1287° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.