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The maps cover the 4,000 square miles [10,500 km 2] of Los Angeles County — by far the most populous county in the nation — from the high desert to the coast. In 2009, there were an estimated 9.8 million residents, up from 9.5 million counted in the 2000 U.S. census, the basis for The Times' demographic analysis for each neighborhood and ...
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Mid-City West is an area in the western part of Central Los Angeles that is served by the Mid City West Neighborhood Council. It contains the neighborhoods of Beverly–Fairfax , Beverly Grove , Burton Way, Carthay Circle , Melrose , Miracle Mile and Park La Brea .
Iran (37.2%) and Israel (5.7%) were the most common places of birth for the 34.6% of the residents who were born abroad—about the same percentage as in the city at large. [4] The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $63,356, an average figure for Los Angeles. The average household size of 2.1 people was low for Los Angeles.
Map of Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles. (as delineated by the Los Angeles Times). According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project, Mid-Wilshire is bounded on the north by West Third Street, on the northeast by La Brea Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard, on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by Pico Boulevard and on the west by Fairfax Avenue.
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Westmont is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, a part of the South Los Angeles area, just east of Inglewood. The population was 33,913 at the 2020 census, [5] up from 31,853 at the 2010 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Westmont as a census-designated place (CDP).
In 1960, the Hacienda Heights Branch of the Los Angeles County Public Library opened. [8] The following year, in 1961, the area was renamed Hacienda Heights. [6] In 1964, the local newspaper, the Hacienda Heights Highlander, was established. [8] The hills surrounding Hacienda Heights have a history of brush fires, especially in 1978, 1989, and ...