Isla Vista, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
55 ft 17 m43 ft 13 m36 ft 11 m24 ft 7 m12 ft 4 m6 ft 2 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Isla Vista sits at about 42 ft (13 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
42 ft 13 m
most residents: 35–47 ft
Lowest
6 ft 2 m
on the southwest side
Highest
55 ft 17 m
on the east side
Average
40 ft 12 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
Isla Vista spans about 49 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 | 42 ft13 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 55 ft17 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southwest side | 6 ft2 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Isla Vista | 44 ft14 m |
| Airport (SBA) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 0.9 mi northeast of the CDP boundary | 14 ft4 m |
| Average of all land | 40 ft12 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.6 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Population
- 15,500 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.6 sq mi
- Density
- 28,131 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.4133° N, 119.8610° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Santa Barbara Municipal (SBA) 14 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 93117
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Santa Ynez620 ft
- Mission Canyon540 ft
- Montecito300 ft
- Toro Canyon210 ft
- Summerland180 ft
- Santa Barbara120 ft
- Eastern Goleta Valley110 ft
- Goleta49 ft
- Isla Vista42 ft
- University of California-Santa Barbara30 ft
- Carpinteria27 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,509th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Santa Barbara County26th highest of 28
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Big Pine Mountain6,820 ft
- San Rafael Mountain6,570 ft
- Divide Peak4,840 ft
- Ranger Peak4,580 ft
- Santa Ynez Peak4,290 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, 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 CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- 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.
- Isla Vista is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.