It starts on Vineyard Avenue at the U.S. Route 101 interchange near the Martinez Shopping Center, and runs through El Rio.

SR 232 leaves the Oxnard city limits and ends at Los Angeles Avenue (Route 118).

[5] At the 1932 Summer Olympics near Los Angeles, it hosted part of the road cycling event when it was Vineyard Avenue.

[8] By 2014, the route was redefined to start at US 101, eliminating the part in Oxnard that had been relinquished.

[9] Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured on the road as it was in 1964, based on the alignment that existed at the time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.