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Historic district adjacent to Central Avenue Corridor in South Los Angeles; part of the African Americans in Los Angeles Multiple Property Submission (MPS) 2: 52nd Place Historic District: 52nd Place Historic District: June 11, 2009 : Along E. 52nd Place [6
First ever population drop for New York City. 2 Chicago: Illinois: 3,550,404: First ever population drop for Chicago. 3 Los Angeles: California: 2,479,015: Los Angeles overtakes Philadelphia to become the nation's third-largest city. Fourth city in the U.S. (and first in California) to surpass 2 million. 4 Philadelphia: Pennsylvania: 2,002,512
Jewish people prospered in Los Angeles. [11] Emigrants from the New York theatre world came to dominate the film industry. [12] [13] Chinatown declined in population but remained a gambling den and a red-light area. In contrast, the Japanese presence increased, with recorded population of 35,000 Japanese in Los Angeles County by 1930.
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
The Los Angeles metropolitan area is defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), [9] with a 2021 population of 12,997,353. [10]
The Los Angeles City Oil Field is a large oil field north of Downtown Los Angeles. Long and narrow, it extends from immediately south of Dodger Stadium west to Vermont Avenue , encompassing an area of about four miles (6 km) long by a quarter-mile across.
The Los Angeles Times analyzed 40 years of data from the census, charting the growth of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across Los Angeles County.
Map of racial distribution in Los Angeles, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Other (yellow) The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles; estimates for the 2010 United States Census results found Latinos to be approximately half (47–49%) of the city's population ...