Leisure Village

Leisure Village is Camarillo's premier 55+ community, sprawling across 400+ acres of beautifully landscaped grounds in the Santa Rosa Valley with the Santa Monica Mountains as a backdrop. Established by Leisure Technology in the 1970s, this planned unit development contains 2,136 single-story homes built between 1973 and 1984, originally offered in 25 models ranging from 672 to 1,829 square feet. Most homes are duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes with one or two bedrooms, a few with dens or formal dining rooms, and there are also some stand-alone single-family homes. Common walls were engineered with airspace between units for quiet living. Garages range from one-car to two-car (Valencia, La Jolla, and some Coronado models), with carports on some homes. The lifestyle here is famously social — 60+ resident-run clubs and organizations cover nearly every interest, from bridge, chess, and bowling to Zumba, yoga, country-western dancing, quilting, woodworking, ceramics, camera club, photography, and a wine club. Educational and discussion groups range from foreign policy to conversational Hebrew to computer club. The heart of the community is the recreation center, which houses a full-sized grand ballroom and stage, library, computer lab, billiards room, card rooms, and arts and activity rooms. Outdoor amenities are exceptional: an 18-hole par-3 golf course included with the HOA (no separate membership required), a year-round heated pool and spa, tennis and paddle tennis courts, pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, horseshoe pits, a farmer's garden, and walking and biking paths throughout the greenbelts. A 4-acre gated RV and boat storage lot with a wash rack is included at no extra charge. A fitness center rounds out the wellness offerings. Security is a real draw — three sentry-operated gates staffed 24 hours with patrol cars, and every officer is trained and certified as a First Responder for medical emergencies. The community benefits from Camarillo's famously mild climate (averaging around 72 degrees) and a location midway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara along the 101 freeway. Residents are minutes from the Camarillo Premium Outlets, The Oaks Mall, Target, Vons, Ralphs, and Kaiser Permanente (about 5 miles away), with LAX and Burbank airports roughly an hour's drive. The HOA is unusually comprehensive, bundling water, sewer, trash, Spectrum cable TV and internet, landscaping, exterior maintenance of homes and greenbelts, master insurance for exteriors and common areas, and security — a value profile that makes Leisure Village one of Ventura County's best-regarded 55+ bargains despite Southern California pricing. Note: many homes are in a designated flood zone, so lenders typically require flood insurance in addition to an HO6 policy.