Meiners Oaks is an unincorporated community lying west of the city of Ojai in Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 3,571 at the 2010 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Meiners Oaks as a census-designated place (CDP).

German original John Meiners had immigrated to America in 1848 and usual a well-off brewing operation in Milwaukee. In the 1870s, he acquired the house that would become Meiners Oaks as payment for a debt. When a friend and event associate, Edward D. Holton, travelled through California and investigated the land, Meiners intellectual that he had acquired one of the largest oak groves on flat arena in southern California. Upon arriving in person, Meiners as a consequence found the climate agreeable, and received a ranch. Several hundred acres, north of the oak grove, were used quite successfully to amass lemons, oranges, plums, apricots and apples, as skillfully as oats, wheat, barley and more. Meiners lived upon his ranch intermittently until his death in 1898.

Meiners Oaks is in the mid-northern section of the Ojai Valley, and is bordered by the community of Mira Monte to the south, and the City of Ojai to the east. Meiners Oaks is in the heart of the Ojai Valley, very near to the Ventura River, where there are several hiking trails.

The community is 70 miles (110 km) north of Los Angeles. The census work definition of the area as a CDP may not precisely reach agreement to local deal of the area with the similar name.