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Quartz Hill is an unincorporated census-designated place in the Antelope Valley of northern Los Angeles County, wedged between the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster - it has never been an incorporated city.

Quartz Hill sits at 2,497 feet elevation in California's High Desert, where summers are hot and dry with average highs above 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Quartz Hill's population reached 11,447 at the 2020 census, up from 10,912 in 2010 and just 3,325 in 1960.

Quartz Hill has 3,941 households averaging 2.9 people each, and about 68% of its homes are owner-occupied.

As recently as the 1970s Quartz Hill was largely farmland, growing almonds, alfalfa, and turkeys, until disease crippled the almond orchards and Los Angeles diverted the growers' water, pushing local workers toward nearby aerospace plants like Lockheed Martin.

Quartz Hill still celebrates its farming roots with an annual Almond Blossom Festival, even though few of the old orchards remain.

Quartz Hill was once home to its own small airfield, Quartz Hill Airport, which has since closed.

Quartz Hill High School, part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District, serves the community along with Joe Walker Middle School, Quartz Hill Elementary School, and Sundown Elementary School.

Quartz Hill's median household income was estimated at $104,017 in 2023, well above its $51,821 figure at the 2010 census, reflecting its shift into an aerospace commuter suburb.

Quartz Hill first appeared in the U.S. census in 1960 as an unincorporated place and has been counted as a census-designated place since 1980.