South Whittier, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
230 ft 70 m190 ft 60 m180 ft 55 m150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m98 ft 30 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
South Whittier sits at about 160 ft (50 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
160 ft 50 m
most residents: 140–210 ft
Lowest
98 ft 30 m
on the south side
Highest
230 ft 70 m
on the east side
Average
170 ft 50 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
South Whittier spans about 132 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 | 160 ft50 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the east side | 230 ft70 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the south side | 98 ft30 m |
| Airport (LGB) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.8 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 60 ft18 m |
| Average of all land | 170 ft50 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
2.8 mi west to east through the middle of South Whittier.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 56,415 2020 Census
- Land area
- 5.3 sq mi
- Density
- 10,569 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 33.9342° N, 118.0326° 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 2
- 90604 90605
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Habra Heights670 ft
- La Habra310 ft
- Whittier270 ft
- East Whittier250 ft
- Pico Rivera170 ft
- South Whittier160 ft
- West Whittier-Los Nietos160 ft
- La Mirada150 ft
- Santa Fe Springs140 ft
- Norwalk91 ft
- Buena Park72 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,170th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County95th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Sunset Peak5,580 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 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.
- South Whittier 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; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.