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Greater Los Angeles

February 16, 2024

Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east, with Los Angeles County in the center, and Orange County to the southeast. The Los Angeles–Anaheim–Riverside combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940 km2), making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area. With a population of 18.5 million in 2021,[2] it is the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States. The contiguous urban area is 2,281 square miles (5,910 km2),[1] whereas the remainder mostly consists of mountain and desert areas.

Greater Los Angeles
Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA CSA
Megacity and combined statistical area
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Riverside
Anaheim
Santa Ana
Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA CSA (in light blue)
Coordinates: 34°00′N 118°12′W / 34.0°N 118.2°W / 34.0; -118.2
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
Principal cityLos Angeles
Other major cities
Area
 • Urban
[1]
2,281.0 sq mi (5,907.8 km2)
 • Metro
33,954 sq mi (87,940 km2)
Highest elevation
11,503 ft (3,507 m)
Lowest elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Megacity and combined statistical area18,372,485
 • Density541.1/sq mi (208.9/km2)
 Ranked 2nd in the US
GDP
[3][4][5]
 • CSA$1.528 trillion (2022)
Time zoneUTC−8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−7 (PDT)
Area codes213/323, 310/424, 562, 626, 661, 714/657, 760/442, 805/820, 818/747, 909/840, 949, 951
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Metropolitan statistical area
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA
Coordinates: 34°03′N 118°15′W / 34.05°N 118.25°W / 34.05; -118.25
CountryUnited States
State(s)California
Largest cityLos Angeles
Area
 • Total4,850.3 sq mi (12,562 km2)
Highest elevation
Mount San Antonio 10,068 ft (3,069 m)
Lowest elevation
Wilmington −9 ft (−3 m)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total12,872,322
 • Rank2nd in the U.S.
 • Density2,654/sq mi (1,025/km2)
GDP
[6]
 • MSA$1.227 trillion (2022)
Time zoneUTC–8 (Pacific)
 • Summer (DST)UTC–7 (PDT)
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area by Sentinel-2, ESA
Downtown Los Angeles in 2016

In addition to being the nexus of the global entertainment industry, including films, television, and recorded music, Greater Los Angeles is also an important center of international trade, education, media, business, tourism, technology, and sports.[7] It is the third-largest metropolitan area by nominal GDP in the world with an economy exceeding $1 trillion in output, behind New York City and Tokyo.

There are three contiguous component urban areas in Greater Los Angeles: the Inland Empire, which can be broadly defined as Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the Ventura/Oxnard metropolitan area (Ventura County); and the Los Angeles metropolitan area (also known as Metropolitan Los Angeles or Metro LA)[8] consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties only. The Census Bureau designates the latter as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim metropolitan statistical area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States, by population.[9] It has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561 km2). Although San Diego–Tijuana borders the Greater Los Angeles area at San Clemente and Temecula, it is not part of it as the two urban areas are not geographically contiguous due to the presence of Camp Pendleton. However, both form part of the Southern California Megalopolis which extends into Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Throughout the 20th century, Greater Los Angeles was one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States, but growth has slowed since 2000. At the 2020 U.S. census, the more narrowly defined Los Angeles metro area had a population of nearly 13 million residents. In 2015, the Greater Los Angeles population was estimated to be about 18.7 million,[10] making it the second largest metropolitan region in the country, behind New York, as well as one of the largest megacities in the world.[11][12]

Definitions edit

 
The Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
  Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA
  Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA
  Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA MSA
Area (km2) Population (2020) GDP
(million US$)
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (MSA) 12,580 13,200,998 1,227,469[3]
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA) 70,610 4,599,839 237,913[4]
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA (MSA) 4,770 843,843 62,239[5]
Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA CSA 87,960 18,644,680 1,527,621


Los Angeles metropolitan area edit

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),[13][14] with a 2021 population of 12,997,353.[15] The MSA is in turn made up of two "metropolitan divisions":

  • Los Angeles–Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metropolitan Division, coterminous with Los Angeles County (2021 population 9,829,544)
  • Anaheim–Santa Ana–Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division, coterminous with Orange County (2021 population 3,167,809)

The MSA is the most populous metropolitan area in the Western United States and second-most populous in the United States. It has at its core the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim urban area, which had a population of 12,237,376 as of the 2020 census.[16]

Greater Los Angeles edit

The U.S. Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns or megalopolis, the Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,490,242 in 2021.[15] The total land area of the CSA is 33,955 sq. mi (87,945 km2).

The CSA consists of three component metropolitan areas:

History edit

Main article: History of Los Angeles

Nearly all of the metropolitan area of Greater Los Angeles is located within the homelands of the Tongva, otherwise referred to as Tovaangar.[17][18]

Geography edit

See also: Southern California § Geology

Urban form edit

 
Many areas are completely filled with houses, buildings, roads, and freeways as observed in Vermont Vista, a Los Angeles neighborhood.

Los Angeles has long been famous for its sprawl, but this has to do more with its status in history as the "poster child" of large cities that grew up with suburban-style patterns of development, rather than how it ranks in sprawl among American metro areas today, now that suburban and exurban-style development is present across the country.[19] The Los Angeles–Orange County metro area was the most densely populated "urbanized area" (as defined by the United States Census Bureau) in the United States in 2000, with 7,068 inhabitants per square mile (2,729/km2).[20] For comparison, the "New York–Newark" Urbanized Area had a population density of 5,309 per square mile (2,050/km2).

Los Angeles' reputation for sprawl is due to the fact that the city grew from relative obscurity to one of the country's ten largest cities (i.e. 10th largest city in 1920), at a time when suburban patterns of growth first became possible due to electric streetcars and automobiles. The city was also the first large American city where, in the 1920s, major clusters of regional employment, shopping, and culture were already being built outside the traditional downtown areas – in edge cities such as Mid-Wilshire, Miracle Mile and Hollywood. This pattern of growth continued ever outward, more so when the freeway system was built starting in the 1950s; thus Greater Los Angeles was the earliest large American metropolitan area with a decentralized structure. Its major commercial, financial, and cultural institutions are geographically dispersed rather than being concentrated in a single downtown or central area. Also, the population density of Los Angeles proper is low (approximately 8,300 people per square mile) when compared to some other large American cities such as New York City (27,500), San Francisco (17,000), Boston (13,300), and Chicago (11,800).[21] Densities are particularly high within a 5-mile radius of downtown, where some neighborhoods exceed 20,000 people per square mile.[22] What gives the entire Los Angeles metro region a high density is the fact that many of the city's suburbs and satellite cities have high density rates.[23] Within its urbanized areas, Los Angeles is noted for having small lot sizes and low-rise buildings. Buildings in the area are low when compared to other large cities, mainly due to zoning regulations. Los Angeles became a major city just as the Pacific Electric Railway spread population to smaller cities much as interurbans did in East Coast cities. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the area was marked by a network of fairly dense but separate cities linked by rail. The ascendance of the automobile helped fill in the gaps between these commuter towns with lower-density settlements.[24]

Starting in the early twentieth century, there was a large growth in population on the western edges of the city moving to the San Fernando Valley and out into the Conejo Valley in eastern Ventura County. Many working-class whites migrated to this area during the 1960s and 1970s out of East and Central Los Angeles.[25] As a result, there was a large growth in population into the Conejo Valley and into Ventura County through the US 101 corridor. Making the US 101 a full freeway in the 1960s and expansions that followed helped make commuting to Los Angeles easier and opened the way for development westward. Development in Ventura County and along the US 101 corridor remains controversial, with open-space advocates battling those who feel business development is necessary to economic growth.[26] Although the area still has abundant amount of open space and land, almost all of it was put aside and mandated never to be developed as part of the master plan of each city. Because of this, the area which was once a relatively inexpensive area to buy real estate, saw rising real estate prices well into the 2000s.[27] Median home prices in the Conejo Valley for instance, ranged from $700,000 to $2.2 million in 2003.[28] According to Forbes, "it's nearly impossible" to find reasonably priced real estate in California, and the prices will continue to increase.[29]

The Los Angeles area continues to grow, principally on the periphery where new, cheaper, undeveloped areas are being sought.[30] As such, in these areas, populations as well as housing prices exploded, although the housing bubble popped late in the decade of the 2000s. Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, which contain large swaths of desert, attracted most of the population increase between 2000 and 2006. Growth continues not only outside the existing urbanized area but also adjacent to existing development in the central areas.[31] As in virtually all US core cities, there is now vigorous residential development in the downtown area with both new buildings and renovation of former office buildings. The Los Angeles Downtown News keeps a list of ongoing development projects, updated every quarter.[32] Over the course of the 21st century, droughts and wildfires have increased in frequency and the region's water security has become a development issue.[33]

 
Downtown Los Angeles

Major business districts and edge cities edit

Greater Los Angeles has numerous traditional downtowns or central business districts, the largest being Downtown Los Angeles. Other important ones are Downtown Long Beach, downtown Pasadena, downtown Glendale, and downtown Burbank, and – with their county, state and federal government facilities – Downtown Santa Ana, Downtown Anaheim, Downtown Riverside, Downtown San Bernardino, downtown Irvine, and downtown Ontario.

However, most of the commercial activity (office space, retail, hotels, entertainment) is found outside traditional downtowns, among the suburban-style development in clusters known as edge cities. In fact, the Los Angeles area is considered the classic example of a metropolitan area that developed in this pattern, because it did so early in history, starting in the 1920s, and was the city to enter into the top ten of American cities while growing in this pattern.[34]

Identity edit

Employment is not only in the downtown area, but consistently occurs outside the central core. As such, many people commute throughout the city and suburbs in various directions for their work and daily activities, with a large portion heading to the municipalities that are outside the city of Los Angeles.[35]

Unlike most metropolitan areas, regional identity remains a contentious issue in the Greater Los Angeles area, with many residents not acknowledging any association with the region as a whole. For example, while Los Angeles County and Orange County together make up the smaller MSA region, the two host many sub-areas that each have sharp demographic, political, and financial distinctions. South Orange County residents often attempt to be identified apart from Los Angeles although they make up the same metropolitan area. Also, while only 1.63% of Los Angeles residents commute to Orange County for work, over 6% of Orange County commuters head to Los Angeles for work.[36] Western Riverside County and San Bernardino County have become commuter regions characteristic of other suburban counties throughout the nation. Residents in these counties often commute to Los Angeles County and Orange County for employment.[37]

Component counties, subregions, and cities edit

 
Los Angeles Basin at dawn

Los Angeles County edit

Main article: Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, of which the City of Los Angeles is the county seat, is the most populous county in the United States and is home to over a quarter of all California residents.[38] The large size of the city of Los Angeles, as well as its history of annexing smaller towns, has made city boundaries in the central area of Los Angeles County quite complicated.[39] Many cities are completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles and are often included in the city's areas despite being independent municipalities. For example, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills (which is almost completely surrounded by Los Angeles) are considered part of the Westside, while Hawthorne and Inglewood are associated with South L.A. Adjacent areas that are outside the actual city boundaries of incorporated Los Angeles but border the city itself include the Santa Clarita Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, South Bay, and the Gateway Cities.

Despite the large footprint of the city of Los Angeles, a majority of the land area within Los Angeles County is unincorporated and under the primary jurisdiction of Los Angeles County. Much of this land, however, cannot be easily developed due to planning challenges presented by geographic features such as the Santa Monica Mountains, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Mojave Desert. Actual land development in these regions occurs on the fringes of incorporated cities, some of which have been fully developed, such as the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster.

Subregions in Los Angeles County edit

While there is not an official designation for the regions that comprise Greater Los Angeles, one authority, the Los Angeles Times, divides the area into the following regions:[40]

Some of the above areas can be defined as being bounded by natural features such as mountains or the ocean; others are marked by city boundaries, freeways, or other constructed landmarks. For example, Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: the Harbor Freeway (SR 110) to the west, the Santa Ana Freeway (US 101) to the north, the Los Angeles River to the east, and the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) to the south.[41] Meanwhile, the San Fernando Valley ("The Valley") is defined as the basin consisting of the part of Los Angeles and its suburbs that lie north-northwest of downtown and is ringed by mountains.[42]

Edge cities in Los Angeles County edit

Central and Western area edit
San Fernando Valley edit
Elsewhere in Los Angeles County edit

Cities in Los Angeles County edit

With a population of nearly 3.9 million people at the 2020 census, the City of Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, and is the focal point of the Greater Los Angeles Area.[43] As an international center for finance, entertainment, media, culture, education, tourism, and science, Los Angeles is considered one of the world's most powerful and influential global cities.[44]

List of the 88 cities of Los Angeles County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:

Orange County edit

Main article: Orange County, California
 
Aerial view of Newport Beach in Orange County

Orange County was originally an agricultural area dependent on citrus crops, avocados, and oil extraction, and became a bedroom community for Los Angeles when I–5, the Santa Ana Freeway, linked it to the city in the 1950s. The growth of Los Angeles initially fueled population growth in Orange County, but by the 1970s it had become an important economic center in its own right, with tourism and electronics industries, among others. Today, Orange County is known for its tourist attractions, such as Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm, its several pristine beaches and coastline, and its wealthier areas, featured in television shows such as The O.C. No one of the original downtowns serves as the central urban core for the county, but there are important clusters of business and culture in Downtown Santa Ana and in three edge cities: the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city from Disneyland to the Orange Crush interchange (Orange, Santa Ana), the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city (Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Irvine), and Irvine's Spectrum edge city.

 
Population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties since 1890

Orange County is sometimes figuratively divided into "North County" and "South County", with North Orange County including cities such as Anaheim, Fullerton, and Santa Ana, and is the older, more ethnically diverse and more densely built-up area closer to Los Angeles. South County, defined variously as beginning with either Costa Mesa[45] or Irvine[46] and includes cities to the east and south such as Laguna Beach, Mission Viejo, Newport Beach, and San Clemente, is more residential, affluent, recently developed, and has a mostly white population. Irvine is an exception, as it is a center of employment and is ethnically diverse. A growing alternative dividing marker between north and south is the El Toro Y interchange. Orange Coast or South Coast area is defined instead, consisting of some or all of the cities lining the coast.

Subregions in Orange County edit

Edge cities in Orange County edit

Cities in Orange County edit

List of the 34 cities in Orange County by population at the 2020 census:

Inland Empire edit

 
San Bernardino Valley
Main article: Inland Empire (California)

The Inland Empire, consisting of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, contains fast-growing suburbs of the region, with a large to majority percentage of the working population commuting to either Los Angeles or Orange Counties for work. Originally an important center for citrus production, the region became an important industrial area by the early 20th century.[47][48][49] The Inland Empire also became a key transportation center following the completion of Route 66, and later Interstate 10. With the post-World War II economic boom leading to rapid development in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, land developers bulldozed acres of agricultural land to build suburbs in order to accommodate the Los Angeles area's expanding population.[47] The development of a regional freeway system facilitated the expansion of suburbs and human migration linking the Inland Empire and rest of Greater Los Angeles. Despite being primarily suburban, the Inland Empire is also home to important warehousing, shipping, logistics and retail industries, centered on the subregion's major cities of Riverside, San Bernardino and Ontario.

While the Inland Empire is sometimes defined as the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, the eastern undeveloped, desert portions of these counties are not considered to be part of Greater Los Angeles. The state of California defines this area to include the cities of Adelanto, Apple Valley, and Victorville to the north, the Riverside–San Diego county line to the south, and the towns of Anza, Idyllwild, and Lucerne Valley, along with the San Bernardino National Forest to the east.[50]

Additionally, the southwest portion of Riverside County, centered on the city of Temecula is more economically linked to San Diego county, with its growth largely being driven by migrants from San Diego seeking more affordable housing similar to how northwestern Riverside county's growth was driven by migrants from Orange County and Los Angeles seeking more affordable housing.[51][52]

However, with clear northern and southern limits to expansion, the region's urban eastern boundaries have become increasingly nebulous as suburban sprawl continues to spread out to form a unified whole with Los Angeles, with further development encroaching past the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains and into the outlying desert areas. As a result, the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles can now be extended to include Barstow and surrounding towns in the northeast, the Morongo Basin in the east-central including Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms, and the Coachella Valley cities in the southeast. This interconnectivity, provided by one of the most extensive freeway systems in the world, as well as economic, social and media ties, has blended boundaries between these regions and the urbanized Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas.[53]

Subregions in the Inland Empire edit

Edge cities in the Inland Empire edit

Cities in Riverside County edit

Main article: Riverside County, California

List of the 28 cities of Riverside County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:

Cities and towns in San Bernardino County edit

Main article: San Bernardino County, California

List of the 24 cities and incorporated towns of San Bernardino County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:

Sparsely populated areas in the Inland Empire edit

While the above areas are included in the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles, the U.S. Census Bureau defines Greater Los Angeles, or officially, the Los Angeles-Long Beach Combined Statistical Area, to include both the above-mentioned areas along with the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.[54] These areas are sparsely developed and are part of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. To the north, Interstate 15 crosses desolate desert landscape after passing Barstow, linking Greater Los Angeles with Las Vegas, with Baker being the only significant outpost along the route. To the east, lie the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree National Park along with the towns of Needles and Blythe on the California-Arizona border.

Ventura County edit

 
The Ventura coast
Main article: Ventura County, California

Ventura County is mostly suburban and rural and also has developed primarily through the growth of Los Angeles. Central and southern Ventura County formerly consisted of small towns along the Pacific Coast until the expansion of U.S. Route 101 drew in commuters from the San Fernando Valley. Master-planned cities soon began developing, and the county became increasingly urbanized. The northern part of the county, however, remains largely undeveloped and is mostly within the Los Padres National Forest.

Subregions in Ventura County edit

Edge cities in Ventura County edit

  • Ventura/Coastal Plain (emerging edge city as of 1991)[34]

Cities in Ventura County edit

See also: Ventura County, California

List of the 10 cities of Ventura County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:

Urban areas within edit

 
Urban areas within the Los Angeles combined statistical area as of the 2020 census. (Far eastern portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are cropped out).
  Urban areas
  Counties in the Los Angeles MSA
  Counties in the Los Angeles CSA but not the MSA

At the core of the Los Angeles–Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA) lies the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA urban area, the second most populous in the United States.[16] Within the boundaries of the CSA the Census Bureau defines 30 other urban areas as well, two of which (Riverside–San Bernardino and Oxnard–Ventura) form the core of their own metropolitan areas separate from the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area. Urban areas situated primarily outside the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area but within the CSA are identified with a cross (†) in the table below.

Urban area Population
(2020 census) 		Land area
(sq mi) 		Land area
(km2) 		Density
(population / sq mi) 		Density
(population / km2)
Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA 12,237,376 1,636.83 4,239.36 7,476.28 2,886.61
Riverside–San Bernardino, CA † 2,276,703 608.56 1,576.17 3,741.10 1,444.45
Mission Viejo–Lake Forest–Laguna Niguel, CA 646,843 163.63 423.81 3,953.02 1,526.27
Temecula–Murrieta–Menifee, CA † 528,991 150.47 389.73 3,515.49 1,357.34
Oxnard–San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA † 376,117 76.61 198.41 4,909.70 1,895.65
Indio–Palm Desert–Palm Springs, CA † 361,075 151.82 393.22 2,378.26 918.25
Palmdale–Lancaster, CA 359,559 84.78 219.59 4,240.90 1,637.42
Victorville–Hesperia–Apple Valley, CA † 355,816 131.77 341.29 2,700.19 1,042.55
Santa Clarita, CA 278,031 77.85 201.62 3,571.56 1,378.99
Thousand Oaks, CA † 213,986 80.20 207.71 2,668.26 1,030.22
Hemet, CA † 173,194 37.06 95.98 4,673.61 1,804.49
Simi Valley, CA † 127,364 31.63 81.91 4,027.01 1,554.84
Camarillo, CA † 76,338 22.48 58.22 3,395.98 1,311.19
Desert Hot Springs, CA † 45,767 14.08 36.47 3,250.66 1,255.09
Santa Paula, CA † 30,675 4.96 12.86 6,179.04 2,385.74
Barstow, CA † 30,522 12.38 32.07 2,465.05 951.76
Crestline–Lake Arrowhead, CA † 22,272 16.85 43.64 1,321.70 510.31
Yucca Valley, CA † 18,293 11.33 29.36 1,613.95 623.15
Big Bear, CA † 16,498 15.93 41.26 1,035.73 399.90
Fillmore, CA † 16,397 2.63 6.82 6,227.80 2,404.57
Twentynine Palms, CA † 12,881 6.82 17.66 1,889.13 729.40
Blythe, CA–AZ † 11,780 6.20 16.06 1,899.83 733.53
Twentynine Palms North, CA † 11,665 2.77 7.18 4,206.03 1,623.96
Fort Irwin, CA † 8,096 3.62 9.37 2,238.42 864.26
Mecca, CA † 6,875 0.63 1.62 10,979.30 4,239.13
Needles, CA–AZ † 6,739 5.55 14.38 1,213.99 468.73
Silver Lakes, CA † 5,908 2.12 5.49 2,789.52 1,077.04
Running Springs, CA † 5,313 3.64 9.44 1,458.40 563.09
Joshua Tree, CA † 4,370 3.80 9.85 1,149.11 443.67
Wrightwood, CA † 3,927 1.38 3.59 2,835.51 1,094.80
Avalon, CA 3,362 1.19 3.08 2,826.47 1,091.31
 
Central Los Angeles and the Westside, as viewed from the Getty Center in the Santa Monica Mountains. San Gabriel Mountains at back left, Downtown Los Angeles skyline at center-left, Century City and Westwood in the foreground and to their right, the 405 Freeway. The Brentwood skyline, the hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula at back right and the Pacific Ocean at far right.

Demographics edit

Historical population
Greater Los Angeles CSA
(Five-county area)
CensusPop.Note%±
1900250,187—
1910648,316159.1%
19201,150,25277.4%
19302,597,066125.8%
19403,252,72025.2%
19504,934,24651.7%
19607,751,61657.1%
19709,981,94228.8%
198011,497,48615.2%
199014,531,52926.4%
200016,373,64512.7%
201017,877,0069.2%
202018,644,6804.3%
U.S. Census Bureau[55]

According to the 2020 census, there were 18,644,680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The racial makeup of the area was 29.4% White (23.0% Non-Hispanic European and 6.4% Non-Hispanic Middle Eastern), 13.8% Asian (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% Pacific Islander (Non-Hispanic), 6.1% African American (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% Native American (Non-Hispanic), 0.5% from other races (Non-Hispanic), and 3.3% from two or more races (Non-Hispanic). 46.3% of the population were Hispanic of any race, a super-majority of which was of Mexican origin.[56] 29.4% of the population (5.5 million) was foreign born; most immigrants came from Latin America and Asia.[57]

The explosive growth of the region in the 20th century can be attributed to its favorable Mediterranean climate, the availability of land and many booming industries such as oil, automobile and rubber, motion pictures, intermodal, logistics, and aerospace which in turn attracted millions of people from all over the United States and world.[citation needed] Citrus production was important to the region's development in the earlier part of the 20th century.[58]

 
Ethnic origins in LA CSA (5 counties)

While the New York metropolitan area is presently the most populous metropolitan area in the United States, it has been predicted in the past that Greater Los Angeles will eventually surpass Greater New York in population.[citation needed] Whether this will happen is yet to be seen, but past predictions on this event have been off the mark. A 1966 article in Time predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass New York by 1975, and that by 1990, would reach close to the 19 million mark.[59] But the article's flawed definition of Greater Los Angeles included San Diego, which is actually its own metropolitan area. A 1989 article in The New York Times predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass Greater New York by 2010,[60] but the article predicted the population would be 18.3 million in that year, a number Greater New York already surpassed in 2007 by half a million people. By 2009, the New York metropolitan area had a population of 22.2 million compared to the Greater Los Angeles Area's 18.7 million, about a 3.56 million persons difference.[61] Percentage growth, however, has been higher in Greater Los Angeles over the past few decades than in Greater New York.

Demographics of Los Angeles and Orange counties edit

County 2021 Estimate 2020 Census Change Area Density
Los Angeles County 9,829,544 10,014,009 −1.84% 4,057.88 sq mi (10,509.9 km2) 2,422/sq mi (935/km2)
Orange County 3,167,809 3,186,989 −0.60% 790.57 sq mi (2,047.6 km2) 4,007/sq mi (1,547/km2)
Total 12,997,353 13,200,998 −1.54% 4,848.45 sq mi (12,557.4 km2) 2,681/sq mi (1,035/km2)
Historical population
Los Angeles MSA
(Los Angeles and Orange Counties)
CensusPop.Note%±
1890115,043—
1900189,99465.2%
1910538,567183.5%
1920997,83085.3%
19302,327,166133.2%
19402,916,40325.3%
19504,367,91149.8%
19606,742,69654.4%
19708,462,36625.5%
19809,410,13011.2%
199011,273,72019.8%
200012,365,6279.7%
201012,828,8373.7%
202013,200,9982.9%
2022 (est.)12,872,322−2.5%
State Census data [62]

Age and gender edit

According to the 2009 American Community Survey, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area had a population of 12,874,797, of which 6,402,498 (49.7% of the population) were male and 6,472,299 (50.3% of the population) were female. The age composition is shown in the table at right.

Age distribution
Los Angeles and
Orange Counties, 2009
Age % of pop.
Under 5 7.3%
5 to 9 6.6%
10 to 14 7.0%
15 to 19 7.2%
20 to 24 7.0%
25 to 34 15.5%
35 to 44 14.8%
45 to 54 13.9%
55 to 59 5.5%
60 to 64 4.4%
65 to 74 5.6%
75 to 84 3.6%
85 and over 1.6%
Median age 34.6

Median age: 34.6 years

Race edit

According to the 2020 census, there were 18,644,680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The racial makeup of the area was 29.4% White (23.0% Non-Hispanic European and 6.4% Non-Hispanic Middle Eastern), 13.8% Asian (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% Pacific Islander (Non-Hispanic), 6.1% African American (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% Native American (Non-Hispanic), 0.5% from other races (Non-Hispanic), and 3.3% from two or more races (Non-Hispanic). 46.3% of the population were Hispanic of any race, a super-majority of which was of Mexican origin.[56]

 
Ethnic origins in LA and Orange Counties

Non-Hispanic whites make up under one-third (29.4%) of the population, approximately 5,477,462 residents. The top European ancestries were German: 7.0% (1,301,202), English: 6.1% (1,131,426), Irish: 5.4% (1,002,233), Italian: 3.4% (624,585), Scandinavian: 2.2% (405,887), French: 1.5% (284,180), Scottish: 1.4% (264,429), Polish: 1.2% (224,443), and Russian: 1.0% (189,115). The top Middle Eastern ancestries were Jewish: 3.2% (600,000), Armenian: 1.2% (214.190), Arab: 0.98% (182,934), and Iranian: 0.75% (139,632). Additionally, 3.3% (611,193) of residents identified as simply American. Values may add to over 100% because people can identify with more than one ethnicity.

Approximately 2,577,706 residents are Asian of non-Hispanic origin. Asians of non-Hispanic origin make up 13.8% of the population, about 1.4% South Asian (Indian Subcontinent), and about 12.4% were East or Southeast Asian. The six largest Asian ancestries with respect to all of Greater LA's population were Chinese: ~ 6.1% , Filipino: ~ 3.1%, Vietnamese: ~ 2.0%, Korean ~ 1.9%, Indian ~ 1.1% , and Japanese ~ 0.8%. Other important Asian American groups include Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, Taiwanese, Pakistani, and Thai Americans.

Non-Hispanic blacks make up 6.1% of the population. Approximately 1,143,781 residents are non-Hispanic blacks. Sub-Saharan Africans were 0.7% (137,443) and Non-Hispanic Caribbean Blacks were 0.3% (62,419).

Non-Hispanic Native Americans make up 0.2% of the population (46,143).

Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders make up 0.2% of the population. Approximately 42,591 residents are Native Hawaiian or of other Pacific Islander ancestries. The largest Pacific Islander ancestries were Samoan, Native Hawaiian, and Guamanian or Chamorro, and Tongan

Non-Hispanic Multiracial people make up 3.3% of the population. Approximately 624,473 people are non-Hispanic multiracial.

People who listed "other" as their race made up 0.5% (102,434) of the population.

Source: data.census.gov. Retrieved on April 15, 2023.[63]

Hispanic or Latino origin edit

Hispanic or Latinos, who may be of any race, are by far the largest group; Hispanics or Latinos make up 46.3% of the population. They outnumber every other racial group. Approximately 8,630,090 residents are Hispanic or Latino. The largest Hispanic or Latino ancestry was by far Mexican, with other important groups being Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Honduran, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Colombian, and Cuban.

Ethnic enclaves edit

Further information: List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles

Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown, the Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Historic Filipinotown, Little Saigon, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Little Bangladesh, Little Moscow (in Hollywood), Little Tokyo, Croatian Place and Via Italia in San Pedro, several Koreatowns, Tehrangeles in West Los Angeles, the Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot multicultural character of Los Angeles. Below is a list of many ethnic enclaves present in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

Ethnic Enclave Name Neighborhood Ethnicity Represented Official Recognition or Dedicated District
East Asian Ethnic Enclaves
Chinatown Chinatown, Los Angeles Chinese Americans, Taiwanese Americans, & Hong Kong Americans; as well as many other Asian Americans Yes, 1938
626/SGV Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley No
Cerritos, California No
Irvine, California & Tustin, California[64] No
Chino Hills, California & Eastvale, California No
Little Taipei Monterey Park, California No
Rowland Heights, & Hacienda Heights, California
Little Saigon Little Saigon, Orange County, Westminster, Garden Grove, & Fountain Valley, California Vietnamese Americans Yes, 1988
Koreatown Koreatown, Los Angeles Korean Americans Yes, 2008
Orange County Koreatown Koreatown, Garden Grove Yes, 2019
North Orange County Koreantown[65][66] Buena Park, Fullerton, & La Mirada Yes, 2023 [67]
Little Tokyo Little Tokyo, Los Angeles Japanese Americans Yes, 1995
Little Osaka/Sawtelle Japantown Sawtelle, Los Angeles Yes, 2015
Japan's 48th prefecture[68] Torrance, & Gardena, California No
Costa Mesa[69] No
Terminal Island Japanese Fishing Village Terminal Island[70] Historically Japanese Americans No
South East Asian Ethnic Enclaves
Filipinotown Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles Filipino Americans Yes, 2002
Manilatown Downtown Riverside No
Little Manila Carson, California No
Panorama City, Eagle Rock, & Glendale No
West Covina No
Cerritos, California No
Rancho Cucamonga No
Central Long Beach, California No
Thai Town Thai Town, Los Angeles Thai Americans Yes, October 27, 1999
Cambodia Town Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California Cambodian Americans Yes, 2007
South Asian Ethnic Enclaves
Little India Little India, Artesia, California Indian Americans Yes
Little Bangladesh Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles Bangladeshi Americans Yes, 2010
Middle Eastern Ethnic Enclaves
Little Armenia Little Armenia, Los Angeles Armenian Americans Yes, October 6, 2000
Arabia Street West Los Angeles Middle Eastern Americans No
Reseda, Los Angeles
Little Arabia Anaheim, California Egyptian American, Syrian American, Lebanese American, & Yemeni American Yes, August 24, 2022[71]
Little Gaza Palestinian American Pending
Tehrangeles or Little Persia Westwood, Los Angeles Iranian Americans No
Southern San Fernando Valley
Beverly Hills, California
Persian Square Near UCLA Yes, 2010[72]
Little Afghanistan Hollywood Afghan Americans No
Los Angeles Community Eruv Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Hancock Park, Pico-Robertson, West Hollywood, & Westwood Jewish American
North Valley Eruv Chatsworth, Granada Hills, North Hills, & Northridge
Valley Eruv North Hollywood, Valley Village, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Sherman Village, and Panorama City
Woodland Hills/West Hills Eruv Woodland Hills/West Hills
Latin American/Caribbean Ethnic Enclaves
El Salvador Corridor Pico-Union, Los Angeles Salvadoran Americans Yes, August 2012
Guatemalan Americans, Honduran Americans, & other Central American groups No
Little Central America Westlake, Los Angeles & Harvard Heights, Los Angeles
Olvera Street El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument Mexican Americans & Chicano Yes, 1877
Sonoratown Removed, 1732–1938
Mariachi Plaza East Los Angeles, California No
Gateway Cities No
El Monte, La Puente, Baldwin Park, West Covina, CovinaIrwindale, Azusa No
Santa Ana No
San Fernando No
Anaheim Colony District Anaheim, California No
Pomona and Ontario No
San Bernardino Valley San Bernardino, Colton, Fontana, Rialto, and Bloomington No
Moreno Valley and Perris No
Riverside, Corona, and Jurupa Valley No
Byzantine-Latino Quarter Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles Mexican American, & Hispanic Caribbean American No
El Corredor Oaxaqueño Mid-City, Los Angeles Oaxacan Mexican Americans No
Little Brazil Culver City, California Brazilian Americans & Other Lusophone Americans No
Little Belize Vermont Square, Los Angeles Belizean Americans No
African and African American Ethnic Enclaves
Little Ethiopia Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles Ethiopian Americans Yes, 2002
Freetown Whittier, California African Americans No
South-central Los Angeles, Compton, Carson, Inglewood, Culver City, and Hawthorne No
Altadena, California No
Antelope Valley No
Native American Ethnic Enclaves
Indian Alley Skid Row, Los Angeles Native Americans No
Pacific Islander Ethnic Enclaves
Carson, California Pacific Islander Americans No
Eagle Rock, Los Angeles & Glendale, California No
Anglo American Ethnic Enclaves
Orange Coast Huntington Beach, California, Newport Beach, California, Laguna Beach, California, Dana Point, California, and San Clemente, California Anglo Americans No
Horsetown USA Norco, California No
Malibu, California No
European Ethnic Enclaves
Little Italy Downtown LA, modern day Chinatown, Los Angeles Historically Italian Americans No
Little Italy/Via Italia[73] San Pedro, Los Angeles Italian Americans & Maltese Americans Yes[74]
Croatian Place Croatian Americans No
Greektown Historically Greek Americans No
Byzantine-Latino Quarter Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles No
Little Portugal Artesia, California Historically Portuguese Americans No
Frogtown Frogtown, Los Angeles & Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles Historically French Americans No
Little Moscow Los Feliz, Los Angeles Russian Americans No
Little Odessa West Hollywood, California Ukrainian Americans in Los Angeles and Russian Americans No
Little Britain Santa Monica, California British Americans No
Anaheim, California Anaheim, California Historically German Americans No
Bellflower, California[75] Dutch Americans No

Politics edit

Presidential Election Results for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Consolidated Statistical Area (Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino)
Year GOP DEM Others
2020 34.8% 2,799,636 63.1% 5,078,481 2.1% 169,472
2016 31.5% 2,013,697 62.3% 3,983,255 6.1% 391,977
2012 37.4% 2,196,108 60.2% 3,534,444 2.4% 143,577
2008 37.3% 2,099,609 60.8% 3,425,319 1.9% 107,147
2004 45.3% 2,490,150 53.4% 2,932,429 1.3% 69,649
2000 41.3% 2,003,114 54.6% 2,652,907 4.1% 198,750
1996 38.3% 1,661,209 51.3% 2,220,837 10.4% 449,706
1992 33.8% 1,657,151 45.0% 2,202,345 21.2% 1,038,448
1988 53.8% 2,408,696 45.0% 2,014,670 1.2% 54,441
1984 60.6% 2,614,904 38.3% 1,650,231 1.1% 48,225
1980 55.5% 2,187,859 35.0% 1,381,285 9.5% 374,993
1976 50.8% 1,877,267 46.7% 1,728,532 2.5% 93,554
1972 57.7% 2,346,127 38.7% 1,573,708 3.6% 146,653
1968 50.3% 1,836,478 43.0% 1,570,478 7.3% 247,280
1964 44.0% 1,578,837 55.9% 2,006,184 0.1% 2,488
1960 50.8% 1,677,962 48.9% 1,612,924 0.3% 10,524

Greater Los Angeles is a politically divided metropolitan area. During the 1970s and 1980s, the region leaned toward the Republican Party. Los Angeles County, the most populous of the region, is a Democratic stronghold, although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972) and Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984). Riverside County, San Bernardino County, and Orange County have historically leaned toward the Republican Party but have started shifting leftward in recent years. Ventura County is politically divided.

Economy edit

The Los Angeles metropolitan area has the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world, behind the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York metropolitan area. In 2022, the combined statistical area of Greater Los Angeles (which includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County) had a $1.528 trillion economy.

Los Angeles and Orange Counties together have an economy of roughly $1.227 trillion.[3] Important are coastal California land values and the rents they command, which contribute heavily to GDP earnings, though there are worries that these high land values contribute to the long-term problem of housing affordability and are thus a possible risk to future GDP increase.[76][77] This is evident when comparing the coast with the Inland Empire, a large component of the five-county combined statistical area (CSA) that nevertheless contributes a far smaller portion to regional gross metropolitan product but still dominates in industry. The Greater Los Angeles CSA is the third-largest economic center in the world, after Greater Tokyo and the New York-Newark-Bridgeport CSA.

Greater Los Angeles is a hotspot for Asian car manufacturers. Specifically, Mitsubishi, Hyundai, Honda, and Mazda have their U.S. headquarters in the area.[78] Nissan and Toyota were headquartered in the area in the recent past as well. (Nissan moved to Tennessee; Toyota moved to Texas.)[79]

The economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is famously and heavily based on the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on television, motion pictures, interactive games, and recorded music – the Hollywood district of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas are known as the "movie capital of the United States" due to the region's extreme commercial and historical importance to the American motion picture industry. Other significant sectors include shipping/international trade – particularly at the adjacent Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, together comprising the United States' busiest seaport – logistics – the Inland Empire being the largest concentration of warehousing and intermodal facilities in the world – as well as aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion and apparel, and tourism.

The City of Los Angeles is home to five Fortune 500 companies: energy company Occidental Petroleum (until 2014 when it moved its headquarters to Houston), healthcare provider Health Net, metals distributor Reliance Steel & Aluminum, engineering firm AECOM, and real estate group CB Richard Ellis. Other companies headquartered in Los Angeles include American Apparel, City National Bank, 20th Century Studios, Latham & Watkins, Univision, Metro Interactive, LLC, Premier America, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, DeviantArt,[80] Guess?, O'Melveny & Myers; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Tokyopop, The Jim Henson Company, Paramount Pictures, Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, Tutor Perini, Fox Sports Net, Capital Group, and The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. Korean Air's US passenger and cargo operations headquarters are in two separate offices in Los Angeles.[81] Entertainment and media giant The Walt Disney Company is headquartered in nearby Burbank.


 
Port of Long Beach

The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world, being the center of imports and exports for trade on the west Pacific Coast as well as being one of the most significant ports of the western hemisphere. The Port of Los Angeles occupies 7,500 acres (3,035 hectares) of land and water along 43 miles (69 kilometres) of waterfront and is the busiest container port in the United States. The Port is the busiest port in the United States by container volume, the 8th busiest container port in the world.[82][83][84] The top trading partners in 2004 were: China ($68.8 billion), Japan ($24.1 billion), Taiwan ($10.8 billion), Thailand ($6.7 billion), & South Korea ($5.6 billion)

The Port of Long Beach is the second-busiest container port in the United States. It adjoins the separate Port of Los Angeles. Acting as a major gateway for U.S.-Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (1,295 hectares) of land with 25 miles (40 kilometres) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California. The seaport has approximately $100 billion in trade and provides more than 316,000 jobs in Southern California. The Port of Long Beach imports and exports more than $100 billion worth of goods every year. The seaport provides the country with jobs, generates tax revenue, and supports retail and manufacturing businesses.[citation needed]

Economic statistics for Los Angeles and Orange Counties edit

In 2014, the population of the Long Beach–Los Angeles–Anaheim metropolitan statistical area (MSA) reached 13,262,220 and ranked second in the United States – a 1 percent increase from 2013.[85] In 2014, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim had a per capita personal income (PCPI) of $50,751 and ranked 29th in the country.

In 2014, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim placed third among the largest exporters in the United States (shipment totaling to $75.5 billion). The metro accounted for 40.8 percent of California's merchandise exports, mainly exporting computer and electronic products ($18.6 billion); transportation equipment ($15.3 billion) and chemicals ($5.6 billion). Nonetheless, the greater Los Angeles metro has immensely benefited from the free trade agreements: greater Los Angeles exported $25.1 billion to the NAFTA region and $776 million in goods to the CAFTA region.

Overall, in 2014 the average wages and salaries reached $57,519 (in 2010, the average wages and salaries reached $54,729).[86] Meanwhile, the median household income in 2014 was $56,935, a 1.4 percent increase from 2013 (average median household income was $56,164).[87]

Note: Dollar items are in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation). Per capita items in dollars; other dollar items in thousands of dollars.

Table 2 (refer below) is a chart of the four highest sectors in the metro area, with health care and social assistance reaching 15.54%.

Industry Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA
NAICS 62 Health care and social assistance 15.54%
NAICS 44–45 Retail trade 11.27%
NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services 10.79%
NAICS 31–33 Manufacturing 10.47%

Table 3 (refer below) displays the location quotient for employment in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim MSA. Top three sectors include information; art, entertainment, and recreation; and real estate and rental and leasing. (Data obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014. Data measures Location Quotient for sectors in the MSA area. U.S. Total is the base areas.[88])

Industry Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA
NAICS 99 Unclassified 2.46
NAICS 51 Information 1.88
NAICS 71 Arts, entertainment, and recreation 1.36
NAICS 53 Real estate and rental and leasing 1.29
NAICS 42 Wholesale trade 1.21
NAICS 61 Educational services 1.13
NAICS 54 Professional and technical services 1.11
NAICS 56 Administrative and waste services 1.06
NAICS 81 Other services, except public administration 1.04
NAICS 31–33 Manufacturing 1
NAICS 62 Health care and social assistance 1
NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services 1
NAICS 55 Management of companies and enterprises 0.95
NAICS 48–49 Transportation and warehousing 0.88
NAICS 52 Finance and insurance 0.86
NAICS 44–45 Retail trade 0.85
NAICS 23 Construction 0.76
NAICS 22 Utilities 0.65
NAICS 11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 0.15
NAICS 21 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 0.15

Utilities and infrastructure edit

There are nine electric utility power companies in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Southern California Edison serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Los Angeles city limits, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Azusa, Vernon, Anaheim, and southern Orange County. Southern Orange County is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and it is served by San Diego Gas & Electric. There are three natural gas providers in the metropolitan area. Southern California Gas Company serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Long Beach and southern Orange County.

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is served by the following utility companies.

Electricity edit

  • Southern California Edison (largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area)
  • Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (second-largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the largest within the Los Angeles city limits)
  • Burbank Water and Power
  • Glendale Water and Power
  • Pasadena Water and Power
  • Anaheim Water and Power
  • Azusa Light & Power
  • Vernon Light & Power
  • San Diego Gas & Electric (serves southern Orange County, which is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area)

The only nuclear power plant that serves the Los Angeles metropolitan area is Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in the US state of Arizona 46 miles west of Phoenix. LADWP and Southern California Edison get their electricity from it.

Natural gas edit

Cable television edit

Phone and Internet edit

Medical facilities edit

Greater Los Angeles is one of the world's largest patient destinations. The Los Angeles Medical Services provide quality medical services and specialty care services to the populations served in compliance with local, state and federal regulations as well as human rights protection.[89] February 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

Los Angeles and Orange counties have separate medical service department but both work jointly. Government and Private hospitals open normally Monday through Friday, excluding City Holidays but some speciality hospitals are open year-round.[89] February 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

The main healthcare providers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are Kaiser Permanente, Cedars-Sinai Health System, UCLA Health, Dignity Healthcare, and Providence Healthcare. LA Care and Care1st are also the main providers for those in the metropolitan area that have Medi-Cal.

Events edit

See also: Category:Annual events in California and Category:Annual events in Los Angeles County, California

Major events include:[90]

Awards ceremonies edit

Annual county fairs edit

Annual Conventions edit

Tourism and attractions edit

Due to L.A.'s position as The Entertainment Capital of the World, there are many tourist attractions in the area. Consequently, Greater Los Angeles is one of the most visited areas in the world. Here is a breakdown of some of its major attractions:

Amusement parks edit

 
Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland

Beaches edit

 
Laguna Beach coastline is popular for sunbathers

Shopping centers and districts edit

There are hundreds of shopping centers and shopping districts across the area. Some key ones that attract out-of-area visitors are listed here; see also the Table of Shopping Centers in Southern California for a more complete list.

Visitors may also stroll Broadway and 7th streets in Downtown Los Angeles, the main shopping districts until the 1950s, to see the architecture of the buildings that once housed the large downtown department stores such as the May Company, Bullock's, The Broadway, Desmond's, Coulter's, Barker Brothers, and J. W. Robinson's.

Film and TV Studio Tours edit

 
Warner Bros. Studios in the San Fernando Valley

Water Parks edit

Zoos and Aquariums edit

 
Los Angeles Zoo

Museums edit

See also: List of museums in Los Angeles; List of museums in Los Angeles County, California; Category:Museums in Los Angeles County, California; Category:Museums in Orange County, California; Category:Museums in Riverside County, California; Category:Museums in San Bernardino County, California; and Category:Museums in Ventura County, California

There are over 100 museums in the area, with some of the most widely visited being:

Convention Centers edit

State Parks & Beaches edit

National parks, monuments, & refuges edit

Places of Worship edit

 
Hsi Lai Temple Main Hall.

Other visitor attractions edit

Area and ZIP codes edit

Area codes edit

Main article: List of California area codes

Media edit

Main article: Media in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of several well-known media companies including: the Los Angeles Times, Fox Broadcasting Company, Universal Studios, and The Walt Disney Company. Local television channels broadcasting to the Los Angeles market include KCBS-TV 2 (CBS), KNBC 4 (NBC), KTLA 5 (The CW), KABC 7 (ABC), KCAL-TV 9 (Independent), KTTV 11 (Fox), KCOP 13 (MyNetworkTV), KCET 28, (PBS), KPXN-TV 30 (Ion), KMEX-DT 34 (Univision), KVEA 52 (Telemundo) and KLCS 58 (PBS). Radio stations serving the area include: KKJZ, KIIS, KNX (AM), and KMZT.

Education edit

Primary and secondary education edit

The Los Angeles Unified School District serves the city of L.A., and other school districts serve the surrounding areas. A number of private schools are also located in the region.

Higher education edit

 
Cal State LA's The Golden Eagle, consisting of two adjoining structures separated by a promenade.

Greater Los Angeles is home to a number of colleges and universities. The University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles, are among the largest, and the Claremont Colleges and California Institute of Technology are among the most academically renowned. Below is a list of some of the most well known colleges and universities within the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.

Transportation edit

 
Rush hour on the Harbor Freeway, Downtown

Greater Los Angeles is known for its expansive transportation network. Most notable is its extensive highway system. The area is a junction for numerous interstates coming from the north, east, and south and contains the three principal north–south highways in California: Interstate 5, U.S. Route 101, and California State Route 1. The area is also home to several ports, including the twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are the two busiest in the United States, as well as Port of Hueneme.[91] Additionally, the region is also served by the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Metrolink commuter rail systems that link neighborhoods of Los Angeles with immediate surrounding suburbs and most of the region (excluding the outer region of the Inland Empire) with Oceanside in San Diego County, respectively. Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the principal international airport of the region and is one of the busiest in the world.[92] Other airports include Ontario International Airport (ONT), John Wayne Airport (SNA), Bob Hope Airport (BUR), Long Beach Municipal Airport (LGB), and Palm Springs International Airport (PSP).

Historic streetcar network edit

 
Los Angeles Pacific Electric (Red Cars) network

The Pacific Electric Railway Company, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County and Riverside County.

The system shared dual gauge track with the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway, "Yellow Car", or "LARy" system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal), on 4th Street, and along Hawthorne Boulevard south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne, Gardena, and Torrance.

Commercial airports edit

The primary airport serving the LA metro area is Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), one of the busiest airports in the United States. LAX is in southwestern Los Angeles, 16 miles (26 km) from Downtown Los Angeles. LAX is the only airport to serve as a hub for all three U.S. legacy airlines —American, Delta and United.

In addition to LAX, other airports, including Hollywood Burbank Airport, John Wayne Airport, Long Beach Airport, Ontario International Airport, and San Bernardino International Airport also serve the region.

Bridges edit

The Los Angeles metropolitan area has only one suspension bridge: Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro, and one cable-stayed bridge: Long Beach International Gateway in Long Beach.

Interstate Highways edit

Main article: Southern California freeways

U.S. Highways edit

California State Highways edit

Los Angeles County Metro edit

Main article: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 
Map of LA County Metro

The Los Angeles Metro Rail is the mass transit rail system of Los Angeles County. It is run by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its system runs six rail lines throughout Los Angeles County. Metro Rail currently operates four light rail and two rapid transit lines, altogether totaling 115.5 miles (185.9 km) of rail, 101 stations, and over 360,000 daily weekday boardings as of December 2012.[94]

The system's light rail lines are the second busiest LRT system in the United States, after Boston, by number of riders, with 200,300 average weekday boardings during the third quarter of 2012.[95] By 2019, it had become the most heavily ridden light rail system in the country.[96]

Since the region of the city is in close proximity to a major fault area the tunnels were built to resist earthquakes of up to magnitude 7.5. Both subway lines use an electrified third rail to provide power to the trains, rendering these lines unusable on the other three. The Blue and Gold Lines run mostly at grade, with some street-running, elevated, and underground stretches in the more densely populated areas of Los Angeles. The Green Line is entirely grade separated, running in the median of I-105 and then turning southward along an elevated route.

The rail lines run regularly on a 5 am and midnight schedule, seven days a week. Limited service on particular segments is provided after midnight and before 5 am There is no rail service between 2 and 3:30 am Exact times vary from route to route; see individual route articles for more information.

Other authorities edit

In addition to Metro, other providers provide local service within their jurisdictions. These include the Orange County Transportation Authority, San Bernardino County Transportation Authority, and Riverside Transit Agency.[citation needed]

Regional and commuter rail edit

 
Map of Metrolink

There are two providers of heavy rail transportation in the region, Amtrak and Metrolink. Amtrak provides service to San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and points in between on the Pacific Surfliner. It also provides long-distance routes, including the Coast Starlight which goes to the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington; the Southwest Chief which goes to Flagstaff, Arizona, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago; and the Sunset Limited which provides limited service (three days a week) to Tucson, El Paso, Houston, and New Orleans.

Metrolink provides service to numerous places within Southern California, including all counties in the region. Metrolink operates to 67 stations on eight lines within Southern California which mostly (except for the Inland Empire–Orange County Line and Arrow) radiate from Los Angeles Union Station.

Sports edit

Main article: Sports in Los Angeles
Further information: History of the National Football League in Los Angeles

Professional teams edit

Main article: Sports in Los Angeles

As a whole, the Los Angeles area has more national championships, all sports combined (college and professional), than any other city in the United States, with over four times as many championships as the entire state of Texas, and just over twice that of New York City.[97] It is the only American city to host the summer Olympic games twice: once in 1932, and more recently in 1984 (Lake Placid hosted the winter Olympic games twice: once in 1932 and once in 1980). Los Angeles will also be the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics, becoming the third city to host three Olympic Games, after London and Paris.

 
Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles

Table of professional teams and venues edit

Other professional venues include:

NCAA Division I college sports edit

 
UCLA–USC rivalry; both universities are located in Los Angeles and are members of the Pac-12 Conference, and will move together to the Big Ten Conference in 2024. The rivalry between the two is among the more unusual in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports, because the campuses are only 12 miles (19 km) apart, and both are located within the same megacity.

Other sports edit

The Greater Los Angeles area also has three well-known horse racing facilities: Santa Anita Park, Los Alamitos Race Course and the former Hollywood Park Racetrack and three major motorsport venues: Auto Club Speedway, Long Beach street circuit, and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona. In addition, the city of Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984.

For over twenty years the Los Angeles area media market lacked a National Football League team. After the 1994 season, the Los Angeles Rams moved to St. Louis, Missouri, and the Los Angeles Raiders returned to their original home of Oakland, California, due to the lack of an up-to-date NFL stadium. After numerous stadium proposals between 1995 and 2016 in an attempt to bring the NFL back,[98][99][100] the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams, and San Diego Chargers all submitted plans to relocate back to Los Angeles after the 2015 NFL season. On January 12, 2016, the Rams were approved to move to Los Angeles and build the venue eventually known as SoFi Stadium with the Chargers or Raiders given the option to join them. On January 12, 2017, the Chargers announced their move to Los Angeles to join the Rams. Both teams share SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.[101]

 
The Los Angeles Basin, viewed south from Mulholland Drive. From left to right can be seen the Santa Ana Mountains / Saddleback (horizon), downtown L.A., the Hollywood Bowl (foreground), Mid-Wilshire, Long Beach – Palos Verdes (background), Catalina Island (horizon), the South Bay and Pacific Ocean.

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greater, angeles, most, populous, metropolitan, statistical, area, state, california, encompassing, five, counties, southern, california, extending, from, ventura, county, west, bernardino, county, riverside, county, east, with, angeles, county, center, orange. Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U S state of California encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the east with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast The Los Angeles Anaheim Riverside combined statistical area covers 33 954 square miles 87 940 km2 making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area With a population of 18 5 million in 2021 2 it is the second largest metropolitan area in the United States The contiguous urban area is 2 281 square miles 5 910 km2 1 whereas the remainder mostly consists of mountain and desert areas Greater Los Angeles Los Angeles Long Beach CA CSAMegacity and combined statistical areaLos AngelesLong BeachRiversideAnaheimSanta AnaLos Angeles Long Beach CA CSA in light blue Coordinates 34 00 N 118 12 W 34 0 N 118 2 W 34 0 118 2CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaPrincipal cityLos AngelesOther major citiesAnaheim Burbank Carson Chino Chino Hills Compton Costa Mesa Corona Diamond Bar Fontana Fullerton Garden Grove Glendale Hesperia Huntington Beach Inglewood Irvine Laguna Beach Lancaster Long Beach Menifee Mission Viejo Moreno Valley Murrieta Newport Beach Norwalk Ontario Orange Oxnard Palmdale Pasadena Pomona Rancho Cucamonga Rialto Riverside San Dimas San Bernardino San Clemente Santa Ana Santa Clarita Santa Monica Simi Valley Thousand Oaks Temecula Torrance Tustin Ventura Victorville West Covina Westminster WhittierArea Urban 1 2 281 0 sq mi 5 907 8 km2 Metro33 954 sq mi 87 940 km2 Highest elevation11 503 ft 3 507 m Lowest elevation0 ft 0 m Population 2022 2 Megacity and combined statistical area18 372 485 Density541 1 sq mi 208 9 km2 Ranked 2nd in the USGDP 3 4 5 CSA 1 528 trillion 2022 Time zoneUTC 8 PST Summer DST UTC 7 PDT Area codes213 323 310 424 562 626 661 714 657 760 442 805 820 818 747 909 840 949 951Los Angeles Metropolitan AreaMetropolitan statistical areaLos Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSACoordinates 34 03 N 118 15 W 34 05 N 118 25 W 34 05 118 25CountryUnited StatesState s CaliforniaLargest cityLos AngelesArea Total4 850 3 sq mi 12 562 km2 Highest elevationMount San Antonio 10 068 ft 3 069 m Lowest elevationWilmington 9 ft 3 m Population 2022 2 Total12 872 322 Rank2nd in the U S Density2 654 sq mi 1 025 km2 GDP 6 MSA 1 227 trillion 2022 Time zoneUTC 8 Pacific Summer DST UTC 7 PDT Los Angeles Metropolitan Area by Sentinel 2 ESADowntown Los Angeles in 2016In addition to being the nexus of the global entertainment industry including films television and recorded music Greater Los Angeles is also an important center of international trade education media business tourism technology and sports 7 It is the third largest metropolitan area by nominal GDP in the world with an economy exceeding 1 trillion in output behind New York City and Tokyo There are three contiguous component urban areas in Greater Los Angeles the Inland Empire which can be broadly defined as Riverside and San Bernardino counties the Ventura Oxnard metropolitan area Ventura County and the Los Angeles metropolitan area also known as Metropolitan Los Angeles or Metro LA 8 consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties only The Census Bureau designates the latter as the Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim metropolitan statistical area the fourth largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second largest metropolitan area in the United States by population 9 It has a total area of 4 850 square miles 12 561 km2 Although San Diego Tijuana borders the Greater Los Angeles area at San Clemente and Temecula it is not part of it as the two urban areas are not geographically contiguous due to the presence of Camp Pendleton However both form part of the Southern California Megalopolis which extends into Tijuana Baja California Mexico Throughout the 20th century Greater Los Angeles was one of the fastest growing regions in the United States but growth has slowed since 2000 At the 2020 U S census the more narrowly defined Los Angeles metro area had a population of nearly 13 million residents In 2015 the Greater Los Angeles population was estimated to be about 18 7 million 10 making it the second largest metropolitan region in the country behind New York as well as one of the largest megacities in the world 11 12 Contents 1 Definitions 1 1 Los Angeles metropolitan area 1 2 Greater Los Angeles 2 History 3 Geography 3 1 Urban form 3 2 Major business districts and edge cities 3 3 Identity 4 Component counties subregions and cities 4 1 Los Angeles County 4 1 1 Subregions in Los Angeles County 4 1 2 Edge cities in Los Angeles County 4 1 2 1 Central and Western area 4 1 2 2 San Fernando Valley 4 1 2 3 Elsewhere in Los Angeles County 4 1 3 Cities in Los Angeles County 4 2 Orange County 4 2 1 Subregions in Orange County 4 2 2 Edge cities in Orange County 4 2 3 Cities in Orange County 4 3 Inland Empire 4 3 1 Subregions in the Inland Empire 4 3 2 Edge cities in the Inland Empire 4 3 3 Cities in Riverside County 4 3 4 Cities and towns in San Bernardino County 4 3 5 Sparsely populated areas in the Inland Empire 4 4 Ventura County 4 4 1 Subregions in Ventura County 4 4 2 Edge cities in Ventura County 4 4 3 Cities in Ventura County 4 5 Urban areas within 5 Demographics 5 1 Demographics of Los Angeles and Orange counties 5 1 1 Age and gender 5 1 2 Race 5 1 3 Hispanic or Latino origin 6 Ethnic enclaves 7 Politics 8 Economy 8 1 Economic statistics for Los Angeles and Orange Counties 9 Utilities and infrastructure 9 1 Electricity 9 2 Natural gas 9 3 Cable television 9 4 Phone and Internet 9 5 Medical facilities 10 Events 10 1 Awards ceremonies 10 2 Annual county fairs 10 3 Annual Conventions 11 Tourism and attractions 11 1 Amusement parks 11 2 Beaches 11 3 Shopping centers and districts 11 4 Film and TV Studio Tours 11 5 Water Parks 11 6 Zoos and Aquariums 11 7 Museums 11 8 Convention Centers 11 9 State Parks amp Beaches 11 10 National parks monuments amp refuges 11 11 Places of Worship 11 12 Other visitor attractions 12 Area and ZIP codes 12 1 Area codes 13 Media 14 Education 14 1 Primary and secondary education 14 2 Higher education 15 Transportation 15 1 Historic streetcar network 15 2 Commercial airports 15 3 Bridges 15 4 Interstate Highways 15 5 U S Highways 15 6 California State Highways 15 7 Los Angeles County Metro 15 8 Other authorities 15 9 Regional and commuter rail 16 Sports 16 1 Professional teams 16 2 Table of professional teams and venues 16 3 NCAA Division I college sports 16 4 Other sports 17 See also 18 ReferencesDefinitions edit nbsp The Los Angeles Long Beach CA Combined Statistical Area as defined by the U S Office of Management and Budget Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSA Riverside San Bernardino Ontario CA MSA Oxnard Thousand Oaks Ventura CA MSAArea km2 Population 2020 GDP million US Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSA 12 580 13 200 998 1 227 469 3 Riverside San Bernardino Ontario CA MSA 70 610 4 599 839 237 913 4 Oxnard Thousand Oaks Ventura CA MSA 4 770 843 843 62 239 5 Los Angeles Long Beach CA CSA 87 960 18 644 680 1 527 621 Los Angeles metropolitan area edit 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 13 14 with a 2021 population of 12 997 353 15 The MSA is in turn made up of two metropolitan divisions Los Angeles Long Beach Glendale CA Metropolitan Division coterminous with Los Angeles County 2021 population 9 829 544 Anaheim Santa Ana Irvine CA Metropolitan Division coterminous with Orange County 2021 population 3 167 809 The MSA is the most populous metropolitan area in the Western United States and second most populous in the United States It has at its core the Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim urban area which had a population of 12 237 376 as of the 2020 census 16 Greater Los Angeles edit The U S Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns or megalopolis the Los Angeles Long Beach CA Combined Statistical Area CSA more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area with an estimated population of 18 490 242 in 2021 15 The total land area of the CSA is 33 955 sq mi 87 945 km2 The CSA consists of three component metropolitan areas The Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSA 2021 pop 12 997 353 The Oxnard Thousand Oaks Ventura CA MSA coterminous with Ventura County 2021 pop 839 784 The Riverside San Bernardino Ontario CA MSA 2021 pop 4 653 105 consisting of Riverside County California 2021 pop 2 458 395 San Bernardino County California 2021 pop 2 194 710 History editMain article History of Los AngelesNearly all of the metropolitan area of Greater Los Angeles is located within the homelands of the Tongva otherwise referred to as Tovaangar 17 18 Geography editSee also Southern California Geology Urban form edit nbsp Many areas are completely filled with houses buildings roads and freeways as observed in Vermont Vista a Los Angeles neighborhood Los Angeles has long been famous for its sprawl but this has to do more with its status in history as the poster child of large cities that grew up with suburban style patterns of development rather than how it ranks in sprawl among American metro areas today now that suburban and exurban style development is present across the country 19 The Los Angeles Orange County metro area was the most densely populated urbanized area as defined by the United States Census Bureau in the United States in 2000 with 7 068 inhabitants per square mile 2 729 km2 20 For comparison the New York Newark Urbanized Area had a population density of 5 309 per square mile 2 050 km2 Los Angeles reputation for sprawl is due to the fact that the city grew from relative obscurity to one of the country s ten largest cities i e 10th largest city in 1920 at a time when suburban patterns of growth first became possible due to electric streetcars and automobiles The city was also the first large American city where in the 1920s major clusters of regional employment shopping and culture were already being built outside the traditional downtown areas in edge cities such as Mid Wilshire Miracle Mile and Hollywood This pattern of growth continued ever outward more so when the freeway system was built starting in the 1950s thus Greater Los Angeles was the earliest large American metropolitan area with a decentralized structure Its major commercial financial and cultural institutions are geographically dispersed rather than being concentrated in a single downtown or central area Also the population density of Los Angeles proper is low approximately 8 300 people per square mile when compared to some other large American cities such as New York City 27 500 San Francisco 17 000 Boston 13 300 and Chicago 11 800 21 Densities are particularly high within a 5 mile radius of downtown where some neighborhoods exceed 20 000 people per square mile 22 What gives the entire Los Angeles metro region a high density is the fact that many of the city s suburbs and satellite cities have high density rates 23 Within its urbanized areas Los Angeles is noted for having small lot sizes and low rise buildings Buildings in the area are low when compared to other large cities mainly due to zoning regulations Los Angeles became a major city just as the Pacific Electric Railway spread population to smaller cities much as interurbans did in East Coast cities In the first decades of the twentieth century the area was marked by a network of fairly dense but separate cities linked by rail The ascendance of the automobile helped fill in the gaps between these commuter towns with lower density settlements 24 Starting in the early twentieth century there was a large growth in population on the western edges of the city moving to the San Fernando Valley and out into the Conejo Valley in eastern Ventura County Many working class whites migrated to this area during the 1960s and 1970s out of East and Central Los Angeles 25 As a result there was a large growth in population into the Conejo Valley and into Ventura County through the US 101 corridor Making the US 101 a full freeway in the 1960s and expansions that followed helped make commuting to Los Angeles easier and opened the way for development westward Development in Ventura County and along the US 101 corridor remains controversial with open space advocates battling those who feel business development is necessary to economic growth 26 Although the area still has abundant amount of open space and land almost all of it was put aside and mandated never to be developed as part of the master plan of each city Because of this the area which was once a relatively inexpensive area to buy real estate saw rising real estate prices well into the 2000s 27 Median home prices in the Conejo Valley for instance ranged from 700 000 to 2 2 million in 2003 28 According to Forbes it s nearly impossible to find reasonably priced real estate in California and the prices will continue to increase 29 The Los Angeles area continues to grow principally on the periphery where new cheaper undeveloped areas are being sought 30 As such in these areas populations as well as housing prices exploded although the housing bubble popped late in the decade of the 2000s Riverside and San Bernardino Counties which contain large swaths of desert attracted most of the population increase between 2000 and 2006 Growth continues not only outside the existing urbanized area but also adjacent to existing development in the central areas 31 As in virtually all US core cities there is now vigorous residential development in the downtown area with both new buildings and renovation of former office buildings The Los Angeles Downtown News keeps a list of ongoing development projects updated every quarter 32 Over the course of the 21st century droughts and wildfires have increased in frequency and the region s water security has become a development issue 33 nbsp Downtown Los AngelesMajor business districts and edge cities edit Greater Los Angeles has numerous traditional downtowns or central business districts the largest being Downtown Los Angeles Other important ones are Downtown Long Beach downtown Pasadena downtown Glendale and downtown Burbank and with their county state and federal government facilities Downtown Santa Ana Downtown Anaheim Downtown Riverside Downtown San Bernardino downtown Irvine and downtown Ontario However most of the commercial activity office space retail hotels entertainment is found outside traditional downtowns among the suburban style development in clusters known as edge cities In fact the Los Angeles area is considered the classic example of a metropolitan area that developed in this pattern because it did so early in history starting in the 1920s and was the city to enter into the top ten of American cities while growing in this pattern 34 Identity edit Employment is not only in the downtown area but consistently occurs outside the central core As such many people commute throughout the city and suburbs in various directions for their work and daily activities with a large portion heading to the municipalities that are outside the city of Los Angeles 35 Unlike most metropolitan areas regional identity remains a contentious issue in the Greater Los Angeles area with many residents not acknowledging any association with the region as a whole For example while Los Angeles County and Orange County together make up the smaller MSA region the two host many sub areas that each have sharp demographic political and financial distinctions South Orange County residents often attempt to be identified apart from Los Angeles although they make up the same metropolitan area Also while only 1 63 of Los Angeles residents commute to Orange County for work over 6 of Orange County commuters head to Los Angeles for work 36 Western Riverside County and San Bernardino County have become commuter regions characteristic of other suburban counties throughout the nation Residents in these counties often commute to Los Angeles County and Orange County for employment 37 Component counties subregions and cities edit nbsp Los Angeles Basin at dawnLos Angeles County edit Main article Los Angeles County California Los Angeles County of which the City of Los Angeles is the county seat is the most populous county in the United States and is home to over a quarter of all California residents 38 The large size of the city of Los Angeles as well as its history of annexing smaller towns has made city boundaries in the central area of Los Angeles County quite complicated 39 Many cities are completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles and are often included in the city s areas despite being independent municipalities For example Santa Monica and Beverly Hills which is almost completely surrounded by Los Angeles are considered part of the Westside while Hawthorne and Inglewood are associated with South L A Adjacent areas that are outside the actual city boundaries of incorporated Los Angeles but border the city itself include the Santa Clarita Valley the San Gabriel Valley South Bay and the Gateway Cities Despite the large footprint of the city of Los Angeles a majority of the land area within Los Angeles County is unincorporated and under the primary jurisdiction of Los Angeles County Much of this land however cannot be easily developed due to planning challenges presented by geographic features such as the Santa Monica Mountains the San Gabriel Mountains and the Mojave Desert Actual land development in these regions occurs on the fringes of incorporated cities some of which have been fully developed such as the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster Subregions in Los Angeles County edit While there is not an official designation for the regions that comprise Greater Los Angeles one authority the Los Angeles Times divides the area into the following regions 40 Angeles Forest Antelope Valley Central L A Downtown Los Angeles Hollywood Mid Wilshire etc Eastside Gateway Cities Harbor Area Northeast L A Highland Park Eagle Rock etc Northwest L A County including the Santa Clarita Valley Pomona Valley partially in San Bernardino County San Fernando Valley San Gabriel Valley Santa Clarita Valley Santa Monica Mountains Malibu Topanga etc South Bay incl Palos Verdes Peninsula Beach Cities South Los Angeles Southeast Los Angeles County including Norwalk and Whittier see Gateway Cities The Verdugos including Glendale Pasadena and the Crescenta Valley WestsideSome of the above areas can be defined as being bounded by natural features such as mountains or the ocean others are marked by city boundaries freeways or other constructed landmarks For example Downtown Los Angeles is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river the Harbor Freeway SR 110 to the west the Santa Ana Freeway US 101 to the north the Los Angeles River to the east and the Santa Monica Freeway I 10 to the south 41 Meanwhile the San Fernando Valley The Valley is defined as the basin consisting of the part of Los Angeles and its suburbs that lie north northwest of downtown and is ringed by mountains 42 Edge cities in Los Angeles County edit Central and Western area edit Beverly Hills Century City LAX El Segundo 34 Marina Del Rey Culver City 34 Mid Wilshire 34 Miracle Mile 34 San Fernando Valley edit Burbank North Hollywood 34 Sherman Oaks Van Nuys Los Angeles 34 Warner Center Los Angeles West Valley 34 West Los AngelesElsewhere in Los Angeles County edit Pasadena 34 South Bay Torrance Carson 34 South Valley Covina emerging edge city as of 1991 34 Santa Clarita emerging edge city as of 1991 34 Cities in Los Angeles County edit With a population of nearly 3 9 million people at the 2020 census the City of Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States after New York City and is the focal point of the Greater Los Angeles Area 43 As an international center for finance entertainment media culture education tourism and science Los Angeles is considered one of the world s most powerful and influential global cities 44 List of the 88 cities of Los Angeles County by population at the 2020 U S census Los Angeles 3 898 747 Long Beach 466 742 Santa Clarita 228 673 Glendale 196 543 Lancaster 173 516 Palmdale 169 450 Pomona 151 713 Torrance 147 067 Pasadena 138 699 Downey 114 355 West Covina 109 501 El Monte 109 450 Inglewood 107 762 Burbank 107 337 Norwalk 102 773 Compton 95 740 Carson 95 558 Santa Monica 93 076 South Gate 92 726 Hawthorne 88 083 Whittier 87 306 Alhambra 82 868 Lakewood 82 496 Bellflower 79 190 Baldwin Park 72 176 Redondo Beach 71 576 Lynwood 67 265 Montebello 62 640 Pico Rivera 62 088 Monterey Park 61 096 Gardena 61 027 Arcadia 56 681 Diamond Bar 55 072 Huntington Park 54 883 Paramount 53 733 Glendora 52 558 Covina 51 268 Rosemead 51 185 Azusa 50 000 Cerritos 49 578 La Mirada 48 008 Rancho Palos Verdes 42 287 Culver City 40 779 San Gabriel 39 568 Bell Gardens 39 501 La Puente 38 062 Monrovia 37 931 Claremont 37 266 Temple City 36 494 West Hollywood 35 757 Manhattan Beach 35 506 San Dimas 34 924 Bell 33 559 Beverly Hills 32 701 Lawndale 31 807 La Verne 31 334 Walnut 28 430 South Pasadena 26 943 Maywood 25 138 San Fernando 23 946 Calabasas 23 241 Cudahy 22 811 Duarte 21 727 Lomita 20 921 La Canada Flintridge 20 573 Agoura Hills 20 299 Hermosa Beach 19 728 South El Monte 19 567 Santa Fe Springs 19 219 El Segundo 17 272 Artesia 16 395 Hawaiian Gardens 14 149 Palos Verdes Estates 13 347 San Marino 12 513 Commerce 12 378 Signal Hill 11 848 Sierra Madre 11 268 Malibu 10 654 Rolling Hills Estates 8 280 Westlake Village 8 029 La Habra Heights 5 682 Avalon 3 460 Rolling Hills 1 739 Hidden Hills 1 725 Irwindale 1 472 Bradbury 921 Industry 264 Vernon 222 Orange County edit Main article Orange County California nbsp Aerial view of Newport Beach in Orange CountyOrange County was originally an agricultural area dependent on citrus crops avocados and oil extraction and became a bedroom community for Los Angeles when I 5 the Santa Ana Freeway linked it to the city in the 1950s The growth of Los Angeles initially fueled population growth in Orange County but by the 1970s it had become an important economic center in its own right with tourism and electronics industries among others Today Orange County is known for its tourist attractions such as Disneyland Knott s Berry Farm its several pristine beaches and coastline and its wealthier areas featured in television shows such as The O C No one of the original downtowns serves as the central urban core for the county but there are important clusters of business and culture in Downtown Santa Ana and in three edge cities the Anaheim Santa Ana edge city from Disneyland to the Orange Crush interchange Orange Santa Ana the South Coast Plaza John Wayne Airport edge city Santa Ana Costa Mesa Irvine and Irvine s Spectrum edge city nbsp Population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties since 1890Orange County is sometimes figuratively divided into North County and South County with North Orange County including cities such as Anaheim Fullerton and Santa Ana and is the older more ethnically diverse and more densely built up area closer to Los Angeles South County defined variously as beginning with either Costa Mesa 45 or Irvine 46 and includes cities to the east and south such as Laguna Beach Mission Viejo Newport Beach and San Clemente is more residential affluent recently developed and has a mostly white population Irvine is an exception as it is a center of employment and is ethnically diverse A growing alternative dividing marker between north and south is the El Toro Y interchange Orange Coast or South Coast area is defined instead consisting of some or all of the cities lining the coast Subregions in Orange County edit North Orange County South Orange CountyEdge cities in Orange County edit Anaheim Santa Ana edge city 34 Fullerton La Habra Brea emerging edge city as of 1991 34 Irvine Spectrum 34 Newport Center Fashion Island emerging edge city as of 1991 34 San Clemente Laguna Niguel emerging edge city as of 1991 34 South Coast Plaza John Wayne Airport edge city 34 Westminster Huntington Beach 34 Cities in Orange County edit List of the 34 cities in Orange County by population at the 2020 census Anaheim 346 824 Santa Ana 310 227 Irvine 307 670 Huntington Beach 198 711 Garden Grove 171 949 Fullerton 143 617 Orange 139 911 Costa Mesa 111 918 Mission Viejo 93 653 Westminster 90 911 Lake Forest 85 858 Newport Beach 85 239 Buena Park 84 034 Tustin 80 276 Yorba Linda 68 336 Laguna Niguel 64 355 San Clemente 64 293 La Habra 63 097 Fountain Valley 57 047 Aliso Viejo 52 176 Placentia 51 824 Cypress 50 151 Rancho Santa Margarita 47 949 Brea 47 325 Stanton 37 962 San Juan Capistrano 35 196 Dana Point 33 107 Laguna Hills 31 374 Seal Beach 25 242 Laguna Beach 23 032 Laguna Woods 17 644 La Palma 15 581 Los Alamitos 11 780 Villa Park 5 843 Inland Empire edit nbsp San Bernardino ValleyMain article Inland Empire California The Inland Empire consisting of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties contains fast growing suburbs of the region with a large to majority percentage of the working population commuting to either Los Angeles or Orange Counties for work Originally an important center for citrus production the region became an important industrial area by the early 20th century 47 48 49 The Inland Empire also became a key transportation center following the completion of Route 66 and later Interstate 10 With the post World War II economic boom leading to rapid development in Los Angeles and Orange Counties land developers bulldozed acres of agricultural land to build suburbs in order to accommodate the Los Angeles area s expanding population 47 The development of a regional freeway system facilitated the expansion of suburbs and human migration linking the Inland Empire and rest of Greater Los Angeles Despite being primarily suburban the Inland Empire is also home to important warehousing shipping logistics and retail industries centered on the subregion s major cities of Riverside San Bernardino and Ontario While the Inland Empire is sometimes defined as the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties the eastern undeveloped desert portions of these counties are not considered to be part of Greater Los Angeles The state of California defines this area to include the cities of Adelanto Apple Valley and Victorville to the north the Riverside San Diego county line to the south and the towns of Anza Idyllwild and Lucerne Valley along with the San Bernardino National Forest to the east 50 Additionally the southwest portion of Riverside County centered on the city of Temecula is more economically linked to San Diego county with its growth largely being driven by migrants from San Diego seeking more affordable housing similar to how northwestern Riverside county s growth was driven by migrants from Orange County and Los Angeles seeking more affordable housing 51 52 However with clear northern and southern limits to expansion the region s urban eastern boundaries have become increasingly nebulous as suburban sprawl continues to spread out to form a unified whole with Los Angeles with further development encroaching past the San Bernardino and San Jacinto Mountains and into the outlying desert areas As a result the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles can now be extended to include Barstow and surrounding towns in the northeast the Morongo Basin in the east central including Yucca Valley and Twentynine Palms and the Coachella Valley cities in the southeast This interconnectivity provided by one of the most extensive freeway systems in the world as well as economic social and media ties has blended boundaries between these regions and the urbanized Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas 53 Subregions in the Inland Empire edit High Desert includes Antelope Valley in Los Angeles County plus Victor Valley and Morongo Basin Low Desert Coachella Valley Palm Springs and Palm Desert area San Bernardino Mountains Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear Lake area Northwest Riverside County Corona Norco Jurupa Valley and Riverside area Moreno Valley Moreno Valley and Perris Pomona Valley Pomona Rancho Cucamonga Chino Eastvale Upland Claremont Montclair La Verne and Ontario area Partially in Los Angeles County San Bernardino Valley San Bernardino Fontana Rialto Colton Loma Linda Highland and Redlands area San Gorgonio Pass Banning Yucaipa Calimesa and Beaumont area San Jacinto Valley Hemet and San Jacinto area Temecula Valley Lake Elsinore Menifee Murrieta Wildomar and Temecula area Edge cities in the Inland Empire edit Ontario Airport Rancho Cucamonga 34 Riverside emerging edge city as of 1991 34 San Bernardino emerging edge city as of 1991 34 Cities in Riverside County edit Main article Riverside County California List of the 28 cities of Riverside County by population at the 2020 U S census Riverside 314 998 Moreno Valley 208 634 Corona 157 136 Murrieta 110 949 Temecula 110 003 Jurupa Valley 105 053 Menifee 102 527 Hemet 89 833 Indio 89 137 Perris 78 700 Lake Elsinore 70 265 Eastvale 69 757 San Jacinto 53 898 Beaumont 53 036 Cathedral City 51 493 Palm Desert 51 163 Palm Springs 44 575 Coachella 41 941 La Quinta 37 558 Wildomar 36 875 Desert Hot Springs 32 512 Banning 29 505 Norco 26 316 Blythe 18 317 Rancho Mirage 16 999 Canyon Lake 11 082 Calimesa 10 026 Indian Wells 4 757 Cities and towns in San Bernardino County edit Main article San Bernardino County CaliforniaList of the 24 cities and incorporated towns of San Bernardino County by population at the 2020 U S census San Bernardino 222 101 Fontana 208 393 Ontario 175 265 Rancho Cucamonga 174 453 Victorville 134 810 Rialto 104 026 Hesperia 99 818 Chino 91 403 Upland 79 040 Chino Hills 78 411 Redlands 73 168 Apple Valley 75 791 Highland 56 999 Yucaipa 54 542 Colton 53 909 Adelanto 38 046 Montclair 37 865 Twentynine Palms 28 065 Barstow 25 415 Loma Linda 24 791 Yucca Valley 21 738 Grand Terrace 13 150 Big Bear Lake 5 046 Needles 4 931 Sparsely populated areas in the Inland Empire edit While the above areas are included in the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles the U S Census Bureau defines Greater Los Angeles or officially the Los Angeles Long Beach Combined Statistical Area to include both the above mentioned areas along with the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside counties 54 These areas are sparsely developed and are part of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts To the north Interstate 15 crosses desolate desert landscape after passing Barstow linking Greater Los Angeles with Las Vegas with Baker being the only significant outpost along the route To the east lie the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree National Park along with the towns of Needles and Blythe on the California Arizona border Ventura County edit nbsp The Ventura coastMain article Ventura County California Ventura County is mostly suburban and rural and also has developed primarily through the growth of Los Angeles Central and southern Ventura County formerly consisted of small towns along the Pacific Coast until the expansion of U S Route 101 drew in commuters from the San Fernando Valley Master planned cities soon began developing and the county became increasingly urbanized The northern part of the county however remains largely undeveloped and is mostly within the Los Padres National Forest Subregions in Ventura County edit Conejo Valley Oxnard PlainEdge cities in Ventura County edit Ventura Coastal Plain emerging edge city as of 1991 34 Cities in Ventura County edit See also Ventura County CaliforniaList of the 10 cities of Ventura County by population at the 2020 U S census Oxnard 202 063 Thousand Oaks 126 966 Simi Valley 126 356 Ventura 110 763 Camarillo 70 741 Moorpark 36 284 Santa Paula 30 657 Port Hueneme 21 954 Fillmore 16 419 Ojai 7 637 Urban areas within edit nbsp Urban areas within the Los Angeles combined statistical area as of the 2020 census Far eastern portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are cropped out Urban areas Counties in the Los Angeles MSA Counties in the Los Angeles CSA but not the MSAAt the core of the Los Angeles Long Beach combined statistical area CSA lies the Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA urban area the second most populous in the United States 16 Within the boundaries of the CSA the Census Bureau defines 30 other urban areas as well two of which Riverside San Bernardino and Oxnard Ventura form the core of their own metropolitan areas separate from the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area Urban areas situated primarily outside the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area but within the CSA are identified with a cross in the table below Urban area Population 2020 census Land area sq mi Land area km2 Density population sq mi Density population km2 Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA 12 237 376 1 636 83 4 239 36 7 476 28 2 886 61Riverside San Bernardino CA 2 276 703 608 56 1 576 17 3 741 10 1 444 45Mission Viejo Lake Forest Laguna Niguel CA 646 843 163 63 423 81 3 953 02 1 526 27Temecula Murrieta Menifee CA 528 991 150 47 389 73 3 515 49 1 357 34Oxnard San Buenaventura Ventura CA 376 117 76 61 198 41 4 909 70 1 895 65Indio Palm Desert Palm Springs CA 361 075 151 82 393 22 2 378 26 918 25Palmdale Lancaster CA 359 559 84 78 219 59 4 240 90 1 637 42Victorville Hesperia Apple Valley CA 355 816 131 77 341 29 2 700 19 1 042 55Santa Clarita CA 278 031 77 85 201 62 3 571 56 1 378 99Thousand Oaks CA 213 986 80 20 207 71 2 668 26 1 030 22Hemet CA 173 194 37 06 95 98 4 673 61 1 804 49Simi Valley CA 127 364 31 63 81 91 4 027 01 1 554 84Camarillo CA 76 338 22 48 58 22 3 395 98 1 311 19Desert Hot Springs CA 45 767 14 08 36 47 3 250 66 1 255 09Santa Paula CA 30 675 4 96 12 86 6 179 04 2 385 74Barstow CA 30 522 12 38 32 07 2 465 05 951 76Crestline Lake Arrowhead CA 22 272 16 85 43 64 1 321 70 510 31Yucca Valley CA 18 293 11 33 29 36 1 613 95 623 15Big Bear CA 16 498 15 93 41 26 1 035 73 399 90Fillmore CA 16 397 2 63 6 82 6 227 80 2 404 57Twentynine Palms CA 12 881 6 82 17 66 1 889 13 729 40Blythe CA AZ 11 780 6 20 16 06 1 899 83 733 53Twentynine Palms North CA 11 665 2 77 7 18 4 206 03 1 623 96Fort Irwin CA 8 096 3 62 9 37 2 238 42 864 26Mecca CA 6 875 0 63 1 62 10 979 30 4 239 13Needles CA AZ 6 739 5 55 14 38 1 213 99 468 73Silver Lakes CA 5 908 2 12 5 49 2 789 52 1 077 04Running Springs CA 5 313 3 64 9 44 1 458 40 563 09Joshua Tree CA 4 370 3 80 9 85 1 149 11 443 67Wrightwood CA 3 927 1 38 3 59 2 835 51 1 094 80Avalon CA 3 362 1 19 3 08 2 826 47 1 091 31 nbsp Central Los Angeles and the Westside as viewed from the Getty Center in the Santa Monica Mountains San Gabriel Mountains at back left Downtown Los Angeles skyline at center left Century City and Westwood in the foreground and to their right the 405 Freeway The Brentwood skyline the hills of the Palos Verdes Peninsula at back right and the Pacific Ocean at far right Demographics editHistorical populationGreater Los Angeles CSA Five county area CensusPop Note 1900250 187 1910648 316159 1 19201 150 25277 4 19302 597 066125 8 19403 252 72025 2 19504 934 24651 7 19607 751 61657 1 19709 981 94228 8 198011 497 48615 2 199014 531 52926 4 200016 373 64512 7 201017 877 0069 2 202018 644 6804 3 U S Census Bureau 55 According to the 2020 census there were 18 644 680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area The racial makeup of the area was 29 4 White 23 0 Non Hispanic European and 6 4 Non Hispanic Middle Eastern 13 8 Asian Non Hispanic 0 2 Pacific Islander Non Hispanic 6 1 African American Non Hispanic 0 2 Native American Non Hispanic 0 5 from other races Non Hispanic and 3 3 from two or more races Non Hispanic 46 3 of the population were Hispanic of any race a super majority of which was of Mexican origin 56 29 4 of the population 5 5 million was foreign born most immigrants came from Latin America and Asia 57 The explosive growth of the region in the 20th century can be attributed to its favorable Mediterranean climate the availability of land and many booming industries such as oil automobile and rubber motion pictures intermodal logistics and aerospace which in turn attracted millions of people from all over the United States and world citation needed Citrus production was important to the region s development in the earlier part of the 20th century 58 nbsp Ethnic origins in LA CSA 5 counties While the New York metropolitan area is presently the most populous metropolitan area in the United States it has been predicted in the past that Greater Los Angeles will eventually surpass Greater New York in population citation needed Whether this will happen is yet to be seen but past predictions on this event have been off the mark A 1966 article in Time predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass New York by 1975 and that by 1990 would reach close to the 19 million mark 59 But the article s flawed definition of Greater Los Angeles included San Diego which is actually its own metropolitan area A 1989 article in The New York Times predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass Greater New York by 2010 60 but the article predicted the population would be 18 3 million in that year a number Greater New York already surpassed in 2007 by half a million people By 2009 the New York metropolitan area had a population of 22 2 million compared to the Greater Los Angeles Area s 18 7 million about a 3 56 million persons difference 61 Percentage growth however has been higher in Greater Los Angeles over the past few decades than in Greater New York Demographics of Los Angeles and Orange counties edit County 2021 Estimate 2020 Census Change Area DensityLos Angeles County 9 829 544 10 014 009 1 84 4 057 88 sq mi 10 509 9 km2 2 422 sq mi 935 km2 Orange County 3 167 809 3 186 989 0 60 790 57 sq mi 2 047 6 km2 4 007 sq mi 1 547 km2 Total 12 997 353 13 200 998 1 54 4 848 45 sq mi 12 557 4 km2 2 681 sq mi 1 035 km2 Historical populationLos Angeles MSA Los Angeles and Orange Counties CensusPop Note 1890115 043 1900189 99465 2 1910538 567183 5 1920997 83085 3 19302 327 166133 2 19402 916 40325 3 19504 367 91149 8 19606 742 69654 4 19708 462 36625 5 19809 410 13011 2 199011 273 72019 8 200012 365 6279 7 201012 828 8373 7 202013 200 9982 9 2022 est 12 872 322 2 5 State Census data 62 Age and gender edit According to the 2009 American Community Survey the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area had a population of 12 874 797 of which 6 402 498 49 7 of the population were male and 6 472 299 50 3 of the population were female The age composition is shown in the table at right Age distributionLos Angeles andOrange Counties 2009Age of pop Under 5 7 3 5 to 9 6 6 10 to 14 7 0 15 to 19 7 2 20 to 24 7 0 25 to 34 15 5 35 to 44 14 8 45 to 54 13 9 55 to 59 5 5 60 to 64 4 4 65 to 74 5 6 75 to 84 3 6 85 and over 1 6 Median age 34 6Median age 34 6 years Race edit According to the 2020 census there were 18 644 680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area The racial makeup of the area was 29 4 White 23 0 Non Hispanic European and 6 4 Non Hispanic Middle Eastern 13 8 Asian Non Hispanic 0 2 Pacific Islander Non Hispanic 6 1 African American Non Hispanic 0 2 Native American Non Hispanic 0 5 from other races Non Hispanic and 3 3 from two or more races Non Hispanic 46 3 of the population were Hispanic of any race a super majority of which was of Mexican origin 56 nbsp Ethnic origins in LA and Orange CountiesNon Hispanic whites make up under one third 29 4 of the population approximately 5 477 462 residents The top European ancestries were German 7 0 1 301 202 English 6 1 1 131 426 Irish 5 4 1 002 233 Italian 3 4 624 585 Scandinavian 2 2 405 887 French 1 5 284 180 Scottish 1 4 264 429 Polish 1 2 224 443 and Russian 1 0 189 115 The top Middle Eastern ancestries were Jewish 3 2 600 000 Armenian 1 2 214 190 Arab 0 98 182 934 and Iranian 0 75 139 632 Additionally 3 3 611 193 of residents identified as simply American Values may add to over 100 because people can identify with more than one ethnicity Approximately 2 577 706 residents are Asian of non Hispanic origin Asians of non Hispanic origin make up 13 8 of the population about 1 4 South Asian Indian Subcontinent and about 12 4 were East or Southeast Asian The six largest Asian ancestries with respect to all of Greater LA s population were Chinese 6 1 Filipino 3 1 Vietnamese 2 0 Korean 1 9 Indian 1 1 and Japanese 0 8 Other important Asian American groups include Cambodian Laotian Hmong Taiwanese Pakistani and Thai Americans Non Hispanic blacks make up 6 1 of the population Approximately 1 143 781 residents are non Hispanic blacks Sub Saharan Africans were 0 7 137 443 and Non Hispanic Caribbean Blacks were 0 3 62 419 Non Hispanic Native Americans make up 0 2 of the population 46 143 Non Hispanic Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders make up 0 2 of the population Approximately 42 591 residents are Native Hawaiian or of other Pacific Islander ancestries The largest Pacific Islander ancestries were Samoan Native Hawaiian and Guamanian or Chamorro and TonganNon Hispanic Multiracial people make up 3 3 of the population Approximately 624 473 people are non Hispanic multiracial People who listed other as their race made up 0 5 102 434 of the population Source data census gov Retrieved on April 15 2023 63 Hispanic or Latino origin edit Hispanic or Latinos who may be of any race are by far the largest group Hispanics or Latinos make up 46 3 of the population They outnumber every other racial group Approximately 8 630 090 residents are Hispanic or Latino The largest Hispanic or Latino ancestry was by far Mexican with other important groups being Salvadoran Guatemalan Honduran Peruvian Puerto Rican Colombian and Cuban Ethnic enclaves editFurther information List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles Ethnic enclaves like Chinatown the Byzantine Latino Quarter Historic Filipinotown Little Saigon Little Armenia Little Ethiopia Little Bangladesh Little Moscow in Hollywood Little Tokyo Croatian Place and Via Italia in San Pedro several Koreatowns Tehrangeles in West Los Angeles the Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley and Thai Town provide examples of the polyglot multicultural character of Los Angeles Below is a list of many ethnic enclaves present in the Los Angeles metropolitan area Ethnic Enclave Name Neighborhood Ethnicity Represented Official Recognition or Dedicated DistrictEast Asian Ethnic EnclavesChinatown Chinatown Los Angeles Chinese Americans Taiwanese Americans amp Hong Kong Americans as well as many other Asian Americans Yes 1938626 SGV Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley NoCerritos California NoIrvine California amp Tustin California 64 NoChino Hills California amp Eastvale California NoLittle Taipei Monterey Park California NoRowland Heights amp Hacienda Heights CaliforniaLittle Saigon Little Saigon Orange County Westminster Garden Grove amp Fountain Valley California Vietnamese Americans Yes 1988Koreatown Koreatown Los Angeles Korean Americans Yes 2008Orange County Koreatown Koreatown Garden Grove Yes 2019North Orange County Koreantown 65 66 Buena Park Fullerton amp La Mirada Yes 2023 67 Little Tokyo Little Tokyo Los Angeles Japanese Americans Yes 1995Little Osaka Sawtelle Japantown Sawtelle Los Angeles Yes 2015Japan s 48th prefecture 68 Torrance amp Gardena California NoCosta Mesa 69 NoTerminal Island Japanese Fishing Village Terminal Island 70 Historically Japanese Americans NoSouth East Asian Ethnic EnclavesFilipinotown Historic Filipinotown Los Angeles Filipino Americans Yes 2002Manilatown Downtown Riverside NoLittle Manila Carson California NoPanorama City Eagle Rock amp Glendale NoWest Covina NoCerritos California NoRancho Cucamonga NoCentral Long Beach California NoThai Town Thai Town Los Angeles Thai Americans Yes October 27 1999Cambodia Town Cambodia Town Long Beach California Cambodian Americans Yes 2007South Asian Ethnic EnclavesLittle India Little India Artesia California Indian Americans YesLittle Bangladesh Little Bangladesh Los Angeles Bangladeshi Americans Yes 2010Middle Eastern Ethnic EnclavesLittle Armenia Little Armenia Los Angeles Armenian Americans Yes October 6 2000Arabia Street West Los Angeles Middle Eastern Americans NoReseda Los AngelesLittle Arabia Anaheim California Egyptian American Syrian American Lebanese American amp Yemeni American Yes August 24 2022 71 Little Gaza Palestinian American PendingTehrangeles or Little Persia Westwood Los Angeles Iranian Americans NoSouthern San Fernando ValleyBeverly Hills CaliforniaPersian Square Near UCLA Yes 2010 72 Little Afghanistan Hollywood Afghan Americans NoLos Angeles Community Eruv Agoura Hills Beverly Hills Hancock Park Pico Robertson West Hollywood amp Westwood Jewish AmericanNorth Valley Eruv Chatsworth Granada Hills North Hills amp NorthridgeValley Eruv North Hollywood Valley Village Van Nuys Sherman Oaks Sherman Village and Panorama CityWoodland Hills West Hills Eruv Woodland Hills West HillsLatin American Caribbean Ethnic EnclavesEl Salvador Corridor Pico Union Los Angeles Salvadoran Americans Yes August 2012Guatemalan Americans Honduran Americans amp other Central American groups NoLittle Central America Westlake Los Angeles amp Harvard Heights Los AngelesOlvera Street El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Mexican Americans amp Chicano Yes 1877Sonoratown Removed 1732 1938Mariachi Plaza East Los Angeles California NoGateway Cities NoEl Monte La Puente Baldwin Park West Covina CovinaIrwindale Azusa NoSanta Ana NoSan Fernando NoAnaheim Colony District Anaheim California NoPomona and Ontario NoSan Bernardino Valley San Bernardino Colton Fontana Rialto and Bloomington NoMoreno Valley and Perris NoRiverside Corona and Jurupa Valley NoByzantine Latino Quarter Byzantine Latino Quarter Los Angeles Mexican American amp Hispanic Caribbean American NoEl Corredor Oaxaqueno Mid City Los Angeles Oaxacan Mexican Americans NoLittle Brazil Culver City California Brazilian Americans amp Other Lusophone Americans NoLittle Belize Vermont Square Los Angeles Belizean Americans NoAfrican and African American Ethnic EnclavesLittle Ethiopia Little Ethiopia Los Angeles Ethiopian Americans Yes 2002Freetown Whittier California African Americans NoSouth central Los Angeles Compton Carson Inglewood Culver City and Hawthorne NoAltadena California NoAntelope Valley NoNative American Ethnic EnclavesIndian Alley Skid Row Los Angeles Native Americans NoPacific Islander Ethnic EnclavesCarson California Pacific Islander Americans NoEagle Rock Los Angeles amp Glendale California NoAnglo American Ethnic EnclavesOrange Coast Huntington Beach California Newport Beach California Laguna Beach California Dana Point California and San Clemente California Anglo Americans NoHorsetown USA Norco California NoMalibu California NoEuropean Ethnic EnclavesLittle Italy Downtown LA modern day Chinatown Los Angeles Historically Italian Americans NoLittle Italy Via Italia 73 San Pedro Los Angeles Italian Americans amp Maltese Americans Yes 74 Croatian Place Croatian Americans NoGreektown Historically Greek Americans NoByzantine Latino Quarter Byzantine Latino Quarter Los Angeles NoLittle Portugal Artesia California Historically Portuguese Americans NoFrogtown Frogtown Los Angeles amp Lincoln Heights Los Angeles Historically French Americans NoLittle Moscow Los Feliz Los Angeles Russian Americans NoLittle Odessa West Hollywood California Ukrainian Americans in Los Angeles and Russian Americans NoLittle Britain Santa Monica California British Americans NoAnaheim California Anaheim California Historically German Americans NoBellflower California 75 Dutch Americans NoPolitics editPresidential Election Results for the Los Angeles Anaheim Riverside Consolidated Statistical Area Counties of Los Angeles Orange Ventura Riverside and San Bernardino Year GOP DEM Others2020 34 8 2 799 636 63 1 5 078 481 2 1 169 4722016 31 5 2 013 697 62 3 3 983 255 6 1 391 9772012 37 4 2 196 108 60 2 3 534 444 2 4 143 5772008 37 3 2 099 609 60 8 3 425 319 1 9 107 1472004 45 3 2 490 150 53 4 2 932 429 1 3 69 6492000 41 3 2 003 114 54 6 2 652 907 4 1 198 7501996 38 3 1 661 209 51 3 2 220 837 10 4 449 7061992 33 8 1 657 151 45 0 2 202 345 21 2 1 038 4481988 53 8 2 408 696 45 0 2 014 670 1 2 54 4411984 60 6 2 614 904 38 3 1 650 231 1 1 48 2251980 55 5 2 187 859 35 0 1 381 285 9 5 374 9931976 50 8 1 877 267 46 7 1 728 532 2 5 93 5541972 57 7 2 346 127 38 7 1 573 708 3 6 146 6531968 50 3 1 836 478 43 0 1 570 478 7 3 247 2801964 44 0 1 578 837 55 9 2 006 184 0 1 2 4881960 50 8 1 677 962 48 9 1 612 924 0 3 10 524Greater Los Angeles is a politically divided metropolitan area During the 1970s and 1980s the region leaned toward the Republican Party Los Angeles County the most populous of the region is a Democratic stronghold although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon 1968 and 1972 and Ronald Reagan 1980 and 1984 Riverside County San Bernardino County and Orange County have historically leaned toward the Republican Party but have started shifting leftward in recent years Ventura County is politically divided Economy editThe Los Angeles metropolitan area has the third largest metropolitan economy in the world behind the Greater Tokyo Area and the New York metropolitan area In 2022 the combined statistical area of Greater Los Angeles which includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area the Inland Empire and Ventura County had a 1 528 trillion economy Los Angeles and Orange Counties together have an economy of roughly 1 227 trillion 3 Important are coastal California land values and the rents they command which contribute heavily to GDP earnings though there are worries that these high land values contribute to the long term problem of housing affordability and are thus a possible risk to future GDP increase 76 77 This is evident when comparing the coast with the Inland Empire a large component of the five county combined statistical area CSA that nevertheless contributes a far smaller portion to regional gross metropolitan product but still dominates in industry The Greater Los Angeles CSA is the third largest economic center in the world after Greater Tokyo and the New York Newark Bridgeport CSA Greater Los Angeles is a hotspot for Asian car manufacturers Specifically Mitsubishi Hyundai Honda and Mazda have their U S headquarters in the area 78 Nissan and Toyota were headquartered in the area in the recent past as well Nissan moved to Tennessee Toyota moved to Texas 79 This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information June 2015 The economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is famously and heavily based on the entertainment industry with a particular focus on television motion pictures interactive games and recorded music the Hollywood district of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas are known as the movie capital of the United States due to the region s extreme commercial and historical importance to the American motion picture industry Other significant sectors include shipping international trade particularly at the adjacent Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together comprising the United States busiest seaport logistics the Inland Empire being the largest concentration of warehousing and intermodal facilities in the world as well as aerospace technology petroleum fashion and apparel and tourism The City of Los Angeles is home to five Fortune 500 companies energy company Occidental Petroleum until 2014 when it moved its headquarters to Houston healthcare provider Health Net metals distributor Reliance Steel amp Aluminum engineering firm AECOM and real estate group CB Richard Ellis Other companies headquartered in Los Angeles include American Apparel City National Bank 20th Century Studios Latham amp Watkins Univision Metro Interactive LLC Premier America Gibson Dunn amp Crutcher DeviantArt 80 Guess O Melveny amp Myers Paul Hastings Janofsky amp Walker Tokyopop The Jim Henson Company Paramount Pictures Sunkist Growers Incorporated Tutor Perini Fox Sports Net Capital Group and The Coffee Bean amp Tea Leaf Korean Air s US passenger and cargo operations headquarters are in two separate offices in Los Angeles 81 Entertainment and media giant The Walt Disney Company is headquartered in nearby Burbank nbsp Port of Long BeachThe Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together comprise the fifth busiest port in the world being the center of imports and exports for trade on the west Pacific Coast as well as being one of the most significant ports of the western hemisphere The Port of Los Angeles occupies 7 500 acres 3 035 hectares of land and water along 43 miles 69 kilometres of waterfront and is the busiest container port in the United States The Port is the busiest port in the United States by container volume the 8th busiest container port in the world 82 83 84 The top trading partners in 2004 were China 68 8 billion Japan 24 1 billion Taiwan 10 8 billion Thailand 6 7 billion amp South Korea 5 6 billion The Port of Long Beach is the second busiest container port in the United States It adjoins the separate Port of Los Angeles Acting as a major gateway for U S Asian trade the port occupies 3 200 acres 1 295 hectares of land with 25 miles 40 kilometres of waterfront in the city of Long Beach California The seaport has approximately 100 billion in trade and provides more than 316 000 jobs in Southern California The Port of Long Beach imports and exports more than 100 billion worth of goods every year The seaport provides the country with jobs generates tax revenue and supports retail and manufacturing businesses citation needed Economic statistics for Los Angeles and Orange Counties edit In 2014 the population of the Long Beach Los Angeles Anaheim metropolitan statistical area MSA reached 13 262 220 and ranked second in the United States a 1 percent increase from 2013 85 In 2014 Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim had a per capita personal income PCPI of 50 751 and ranked 29th in the country In 2014 Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim placed third among the largest exporters in the United States shipment totaling to 75 5 billion The metro accounted for 40 8 percent of California s merchandise exports mainly exporting computer and electronic products 18 6 billion transportation equipment 15 3 billion and chemicals 5 6 billion Nonetheless the greater Los Angeles metro has immensely benefited from the free trade agreements greater Los Angeles exported 25 1 billion to the NAFTA region and 776 million in goods to the CAFTA region Overall in 2014 the average wages and salaries reached 57 519 in 2010 the average wages and salaries reached 54 729 86 Meanwhile the median household income in 2014 was 56 935 a 1 4 percent increase from 2013 average median household income was 56 164 87 Note Dollar items are in current dollars not adjusted for inflation Per capita items in dollars other dollar items in thousands of dollars Table 2 refer below is a chart of the four highest sectors in the metro area with health care and social assistance reaching 15 54 Industry Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSANAICS 62 Health care and social assistance 15 54 NAICS 44 45 Retail trade 11 27 NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services 10 79 NAICS 31 33 Manufacturing 10 47 Table 3 refer below displays the location quotient for employment in the Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim MSA Top three sectors include information art entertainment and recreation and real estate and rental and leasing Data obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 Data measures Location Quotient for sectors in the MSA area U S Total is the base areas 88 Industry Los Angeles Long Beach Anaheim CA MSANAICS 99 Unclassified 2 46NAICS 51 Information 1 88NAICS 71 Arts entertainment and recreation 1 36NAICS 53 Real estate and rental and leasing 1 29NAICS 42 Wholesale trade 1 21NAICS 61 Educational services 1 13NAICS 54 Professional and technical services 1 11NAICS 56 Administrative and waste services 1 06NAICS 81 Other services except public administration 1 04NAICS 31 33 Manufacturing 1NAICS 62 Health care and social assistance 1NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services 1NAICS 55 Management of companies and enterprises 0 95NAICS 48 49 Transportation and warehousing 0 88NAICS 52 Finance and insurance 0 86NAICS 44 45 Retail trade 0 85NAICS 23 Construction 0 76NAICS 22 Utilities 0 65NAICS 11 Agriculture forestry fishing and hunting 0 15NAICS 21 Mining quarrying and oil and gas extraction 0 15Utilities and infrastructure editThere are nine electric utility power companies in the Los Angeles metropolitan area Southern California Edison serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Los Angeles city limits Burbank Glendale Pasadena Azusa Vernon Anaheim and southern Orange County Southern Orange County is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and it is served by San Diego Gas amp Electric There are three natural gas providers in the metropolitan area Southern California Gas Company serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Long Beach and southern Orange County The Los Angeles metropolitan area is served by the following utility companies Electricity edit Southern California Edison largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area Los Angeles Department of Water and Power second largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the largest within the Los Angeles city limits Burbank Water and Power Glendale Water and Power Pasadena Water and Power Anaheim Water and Power Azusa Light amp Power Vernon Light amp Power San Diego Gas amp Electric serves southern Orange County which is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area The only nuclear power plant that serves the Los Angeles metropolitan area is Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in the US state of Arizona 46 miles west of Phoenix LADWP and Southern California Edison get their electricity from it Natural gas edit Southern California Gas Company City of Long Beach Gas Company San Diego Gas amp Electric serves southern Orange County which is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area Cable television edit Charter Communications known as Charter Spectrum serves a majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area Cox Communications serves parts of Orange County and the Palos Verdes peninsula Phone and Internet edit AT amp T T Mobile Verizon Metro PCS cricket Wireless Frontier Communications Charter SpectrumMedical facilities edit Greater Los Angeles is one of the world s largest patient destinations The Los Angeles Medical Services provide quality medical services and specialty care services to the populations served in compliance with local state and federal regulations as well as human rights protection 89 Archived February 12 2018 at the Wayback MachineLos Angeles and Orange counties have separate medical service department but both work jointly Government and Private hospitals open normally Monday through Friday excluding City Holidays but some speciality hospitals are open year round 89 Archived February 12 2018 at the Wayback MachineThe main healthcare providers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are Kaiser Permanente Cedars Sinai Health System UCLA Health Dignity Healthcare and Providence Healthcare LA Care and Care1st are also the main providers for those in the metropolitan area that have Medi Cal Events editSee also Category Annual events in California and Category Annual events in Los Angeles County California Major events include 90 626 Night Market Auto Club 400 Inland Empire BNP Paribas Open Fashion Week El Paseo Palm Springs Holidays at the Disneyland Resort LA Auto Show Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters Los Angeles Film Festival Newport Beach Christmas boat parade Newport Beach Wine and Food Festival Palm Springs International Film Festival Palm Springs Modernism Week Rose Parade Temecula Valley Balloon amp Wine Festival Vans U S Open of SurfingAwards ceremonies edit Academy Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Golden Globes Grammy Awards Screen Actors Guild AwardsAnnual county fairs edit Los Angeles County Fair at Fairplex in Pomona Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa Riverside County Fair and Date FestivalAnnual Conventions edit Anime Expo BlizzCon D23 Expo Electronic Entertainment Expo L A Comic Con Los Angeles Auto Show NAMM Show VidCon WonderConTourism and attractions editThis section may be too long to read and navigate comfortably Please consider splitting content into sub articles condensing it or adding subheadings Please discuss this issue on the article s talk page November 2020 This section is missing information about San Bernardino Riverside and Ventura counties Please expand the section to include this information Further details may exist on the talk page November 2020 Due to L A s position as The Entertainment Capital of the World there are many tourist attractions in the area Consequently Greater Los Angeles is one of the most visited areas in the world Here is a breakdown of some of its major attractions Amusement parks edit nbsp Sleeping Beauty Castle at DisneylandCastle Park Disneyland Disney California Adventure Knott s Berry Farm Pacific Park Six Flags Magic Mountain Universal Studios Hollywood Beaches edit nbsp Laguna Beach coastline is popular for sunbathersCapistrano Beach Corona del Mar Dana Point El Porto El Segundo Hermosa Beach Huntington Beach Laguna Beach Long Beach Los Angeles Malibu Manhattan Beach Marina del Rey Newport Beach Pacific Palisades Palos Verdes Estates Playa del Rey Rancho Palos Verdes Redondo Beach San Clemente San Pedro Santa Monica Seal Beach Sunset Beach Venice Beach Shopping centers and districts edit There are hundreds of shopping centers and shopping districts across the area Some key ones that attract out of area visitors are listed here see also the Table of Shopping Centers in Southern California for a more complete list Anaheim GardenWalk near Disneyland Beverly Center near West Hollywood Citadel Outlets Commerce Del Amo Fashion Center Torrance Downtown Disney Fashion District Downtown Los Angeles Fashion Island Newport Beach Ovation Hollywood Irvine Spectrum Center Melrose Avenue Hollywood Old Pasadena Ontario Mills Rodeo Drive and downtown Beverly Hills The Grove at Farmer s Market Fairfax District South Coast Plaza Costa Mesa Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Place Santa Monica Universal CityWalk Victoria Gardens Rancho Cucamonga Westfield Century City Visitors may also stroll Broadway and 7th streets in Downtown Los Angeles the main shopping districts until the 1950s to see the architecture of the buildings that once housed the large downtown department stores such as the May Company Bullock s The Broadway Desmond s Coulter s Barker Brothers and J W Robinson s Film and TV Studio Tours edit nbsp Warner Bros Studios in the San Fernando ValleySony Pictures Studios Universal Studios Walt Disney Studios Warner Bros Studios Paramount StudiosWater Parks edit Dry Town Water Park Raging Waters Knott s Soak City Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Wild Rivers Great Wolf Lodge Zoos and Aquariums edit nbsp Los Angeles ZooAquarium of the Pacific Cabrillo Aquarium Griffith Park Zoo Defunct Los Angeles Zoo Montebello Barnyard Zoo Ocean Institute Orange County Zoo Santa Ana Zoo Museums edit See also List of museums in Los Angeles List of museums in Los Angeles County California Category Museums in Los Angeles County California Category Museums in Orange County California Category Museums in Riverside County California Category Museums in San Bernardino County California and Category Museums in Ventura County CaliforniaThere are over 100 museums in the area with some of the most widely visited being Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Bowers Museum California African American Museum California Science Center Children s Museum of Los Angeles Chinese American Museum Discovery Cube Los Angeles Discovery Cube Orange County El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Getty Center Getty Villa Grammy Museum Griffith Observatory Hammer Museum Hollywood Wax Museum Huntington Library Italian American Museum of Los Angeles La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mission San Buenaventura Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana Mission San Gabriel Arcangel Mission San Juan Capistrano Movieland Wax Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Tolerance Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Nethercutt Collection Norton Simon Museum Orange County Museum of Art Queen Mary Richard Nixon Birthplace Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Ripley s Believe It or Not Ronald Reagan Presidential Library San Bernardino de Sena Estancia Southwest Museum of the American Indian Travel Town Museum USC Fisher Museum of Art Watts Towers Convention Centers edit Anaheim Convention Center Los Angeles Convention Center Pasadena Convention Center Long Beach Convention Center National Orange Show Event Center Ontario Convention Center State Parks amp Beaches edit Antelope Valley California Poppy State Reserve Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park Arthur B Ripley Desert Woodland State Park Bolsa Chica State Beach California Citrus State Historic Park Castaic Lake State Recreation Area Chino Hills State Park Corona del Mar State Beach Crystal Cove State Park Dockweiler State Beach Doheny State Beach Emma Wood State Beach Huntington State Beach Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Leo Carrillo State Park Los Angeles State Historic Park Los Encinos State Historic Park Malibu Creek State Park Malibu Lagoon State Beach Mandalay State Beach McGrath State Beach Mount San Jacinto State Park Pescadero State Beach Pio Pico State Historic Park Placerita Canyon State Park Point Dume State Beach Point Mugu State Park Rio de Los Angeles State Park Robert H Meyer Memorial State Beach Saddleback Butte State Park San Buenaventura State Beach San Clemente State Beach San Onofre State Beach Santa Monica State Beach Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Topanga State Park Verdugo Mountains State Recreation Area Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park Will Rogers State Historic Park Will Rogers State Beach National parks monuments amp refuges edit Angeles National Forest Cleveland National Forest Channel Islands National Park Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Joshua Tree National Park Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail Old Spanish National Historic Trail San Bernardino National Forest Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Seal Beach National Wildlife RefugePlaces of Worship edit Bao Quang Temple BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chino Hills Buddha Monstery Support Monterey Park Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Chua Bat Nha Chua Dieu Ngu Vietnamese Buddhist Temple Crystal Cathedral First Congregational Church of Los Angeles Glory Church of Jesus Christ Hai Nam Association of Southern California Holy Transfiguration Russian Orthodox Cathedral Hsi Lai Temple Koyasan Buddhist Temple Immanuel Presbyterian Church Islamic Society of Orange County Loma Linda University Church of Seventh day Adventists Los Angeles California Temple Malibu Hindu Temple Ming Ya Buddhist Foundation nbsp Hsi Lai Temple Main Hall Mission Basilica San Juan Capistrano Pao Fa Temple Saddleback Church St Andrew s Catholic Church St Brendan Catholic Church St Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral St John s Episcopal Cathedral St Mary s Armenian Apostolic Church Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church of San Gabriel Saint Sophia Cathedral St Vincent de Paul Church Teo Chew Association of Southern California Thien Hau Temple Wat Thai of Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard Temple Zenshuji Soto Mission Other visitor attractions edit Armenian Genocide Martyrs Memorial Monument Ave 26 Night Market Pico Rivera Balboa Fun Zone Balboa Island Balboa Pier Bear Mountain Ski Resort Big Bear Lake Cabazon Dinosaurs Catalina Island Devil s Punchbowl El Capitan Theatre El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Exposition Park Glen Helen Amphitheater Grauman s Chinese Theatre Griffith Park Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood Bowl Hollywood Sign Hollywood Walk of Fame Huntington Beach Pier Irvine Regional Park Jet Propulsion Laboratory Jurupa Oak Korean Bell of Friendship La Brea Tar Pits Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden Manhattan Beach Pier Medieval Times Mile Square Regional Park The Mission Inn Mount Rubidoux Mount Wilson Observatory Murals of Los Angeles Newport Bay O Neill Regional Park Orange County Great Park Palm Springs Aerial Tramway Pasadena City Hall San Bernardino Santa Fe Depot Santa Monica Pier Terminal Island Japanese Fishing Village Memorial The Japanese Garden Universal City VeniceArea and ZIP codes editThis section is missing information about San Bernardino Riverside and Ventura counties Please expand the section to include this information Further details may exist on the talk page November 2020 Area codes edit Main article List of California area codes 213 Downtown Los Angeles surrounded by 323 October 1947 310 424 Santa Monica Malibu Pacific Palisades Compton Lynwood Torrance Beverly Hills Catalina Island the southwestern portion of Los Angeles County Split from 213 on November 2 1991 overlaid by 424 on August 26 2006 323 a ring around downtown Los Angeles including the Hollywood and Eagle Rock neighborhoods of Los Angeles South Los Angeles the cities of South Gate Huntington Park Vernon Walnut Park Florence Bell Bell Gardens Cudahy Montebello and East Los Angeles Split from 213 on June 13 1998 442 760 Coachella Valley including Palm Springs and Indio Victor Valley including Victorville and Apple Valley 562 Long Beach Downey Whittier Norwalk Lakewood Bellflower Paramount Cerritos southeast Los Angeles County and a small portion of coastal Orange County Split from 310 on January 25 1997 626 Pasadena Monterey Park Rowland Heights Alhambra and West Covina the San Gabriel Valley and eastern suburbs of Los Angeles Split from 818 on June 14 1997 657 714 Anaheim Huntington Beach Santa Ana Orange Garden Grove northern and western Orange County Overlaid by 657 on September 23 2008 747 818 the cities of Burbank Glendale San Fernando the North Hollywood Van Nuys Panorama City Sherman Oaks and Northridge neighborhoods of Los Angeles the San Fernando Valley Split from 213 on January 7 1984 805 820 Ventura County including the cities of Oxnard Simi Valley Thousand Oaks and Ventura 909 Southwest San Bernardino County and the far eastern L A County suburbs of Pomona Walnut Diamond Bar San Dimas La Verne and Claremont Split from 714 on November 14 1992 949 Irvine Laguna Beach Newport Beach San Juan Capistrano southern and eastern Orange County Split from 714 on April 18 1998 951 Corona Hemet Jurupa Valley Lake Elsinore Menifee Moreno Valley Riverside Temecula western end of Riverside County Split from 909 on July 17 2004 Media editMain article Media in Los Angeles The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of several well known media companies including the Los Angeles Times Fox Broadcasting Company Universal Studios and The Walt Disney Company Local television channels broadcasting to the Los Angeles market include KCBS TV 2 CBS KNBC 4 NBC KTLA 5 The CW KABC 7 ABC KCAL TV 9 Independent KTTV 11 Fox KCOP 13 MyNetworkTV KCET 28 PBS KPXN TV 30 Ion KMEX DT 34 Univision KVEA 52 Telemundo and KLCS 58 PBS Radio stations serving the area include KKJZ KIIS KNX AM and KMZT Education editThis section is missing information about San Bernardino Riverside and Ventura counties Please expand the section to include this information Further details may exist on the talk page November 2020 Primary and secondary education edit The Los Angeles Unified School District serves the city of L A and other school districts serve the surrounding areas A number of private schools are also located in the region Higher education edit nbsp Cal State LA s The Golden Eagle consisting of two adjoining structures separated by a promenade Greater Los Angeles is home to a number of colleges and universities The University of Southern California and University of California Los Angeles are among the largest and the Claremont Colleges and California Institute of Technology are among the most academically renowned Below is a list of some of the most well known colleges and universities within the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area Art Center College of Design Azusa Pacific University Biola University California Baptist University California Lutheran University California State University Channel Islands California State University Dominguez Hills California State University Fullerton California State University Northridge California State University Long Beach California State University Los Angeles California State University San Bernardino California State Polytechnic University Pomona California Institute of Technology Chapman University Claremont Colleges Laguna College of Art and Design Loma Linda University Loyola Marymount University University of California Irvine University of California Los Angeles University of California Riverside University of Southern California University of La Verne University of Redlands Pepperdine University Soka University of America Vanguard University West Coast UniversityTransportation edit nbsp Rush hour on the Harbor Freeway DowntownGreater Los Angeles is known for its expansive transportation network Most notable is its extensive highway system The area is a junction for numerous interstates coming from the north east and south and contains the three principal north south highways in California Interstate 5 U S Route 101 and California State Route 1 The area is also home to several ports including the twin ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles which are the two busiest in the United States as well as Port of Hueneme 91 Additionally the region is also served by the Los Angeles Metro Rail and Metrolink commuter rail systems that link neighborhoods of Los Angeles with immediate surrounding suburbs and most of the region excluding the outer region of the Inland Empire with Oceanside in San Diego County respectively Los Angeles International Airport LAX is the principal international airport of the region and is one of the busiest in the world 92 Other airports include Ontario International Airport ONT John Wayne Airport SNA Bob Hope Airport BUR Long Beach Municipal Airport LGB and Palm Springs International Airport PSP Historic streetcar network edit nbsp Los Angeles Pacific Electric Red Cars networkThe Pacific Electric Railway Company nicknamed the Red Cars was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars interurban cars and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino it connected cities in Los Angeles County Orange County San Bernardino County and Riverside County The system shared dual gauge track with the 3 ft 6 in 1 067 mm narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway Yellow Car or LARy system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal on 4th Street and along Hawthorne Boulevard south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne Gardena and Torrance Commercial airports edit Airport IATA code County Enplanements 2013 93 Los Angeles International Airport LAX Los Angeles 32 425 892John Wayne Airport SNA Orange County 4 540 628Ontario International Airport ONT San Bernardino 1 970 538Hollywood Burbank Airport BUR Los Angeles 1 918 011Long Beach Airport LGB Los Angeles 1 438 756San Bernardino International Airport SBD San Bernardino NAThe primary airport serving the LA metro area is Los Angeles International Airport LAX one of the busiest airports in the United States LAX is in southwestern Los Angeles 16 miles 26 km from Downtown Los Angeles LAX is the only airport to serve as a hub for all three U S legacy airlines American Delta and United In addition to LAX other airports including Hollywood Burbank Airport John Wayne Airport Long Beach Airport Ontario International Airport and San Bernardino International Airport also serve the region Bridges edit The Los Angeles metropolitan area has only one suspension bridge Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro and one cable stayed bridge Long Beach International Gateway in Long Beach Interstate Highways edit Main article Southern California freeways nbsp Golden State Freeway Santa Ana Freeway San Diego Freeway Montgomery Freeway Interstate 5 nbsp Santa Monica Freeway Rosa Parks Freeway San Bernardino Freeway Interstate 10 nbsp Escondido Freeway Temecula Valley Freeway Corona Freeway Ontario Freeway Mojave Freeway Interstate 15 nbsp Glenn Anderson Freeway Century Freeway Interstate 105 nbsp Harbor Freeway Interstate 110 nbsp Foothill Freeway Interstate 210 nbsp Escondido Freeway Armed Forces Freeway Barstow Freeway Interstate 215 nbsp San Diego Freeway Interstate 405 nbsp San Gabriel River Freeway Interstate 605 nbsp Long Beach Freeway Interstate 710 U S Highways edit nbsp Will Rogers Highway Former U S Route 66 nbsp Pacific Highway Former U S Route 99 nbsp Santa Ana Freeway Hollywood Freeway U S Route 101 California State Highways edit nbsp State Route 1 nbsp State Route 2 nbsp State Route 14 nbsp State Route 18 nbsp State Route 19 nbsp State Route 22 nbsp State Route 23 nbsp State Route 27 nbsp State Route 33 nbsp State Route 34 nbsp State Route 39 nbsp State Route 47 nbsp State Route 55 nbsp State Route 57 nbsp State Route 60 nbsp State Route 66 nbsp State Route 71 nbsp State Route 72 nbsp State Route 73 nbsp State Route 74 nbsp State Route 83 nbsp State Route 90 nbsp State Route 91 nbsp State Route 103 nbsp State Route 107 nbsp State Route 110 nbsp State Route 118 nbsp State Route 126 nbsp State Route 133 nbsp State Route 134 nbsp State Route 138 nbsp State Route 142 nbsp State Route 170 nbsp State Route 187 nbsp State Route 210 nbsp State Route 213 nbsp State Route 241 nbsp State Route 261 Los Angeles County Metro edit Main article Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority nbsp Map of LA County MetroThe Los Angeles Metro Rail is the mass transit rail system of Los Angeles County It is run by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its system runs six rail lines throughout Los Angeles County Metro Rail currently operates four light rail and two rapid transit lines altogether totaling 115 5 miles 185 9 km of rail 101 stations and over 360 000 daily weekday boardings as of December 2012 update 94 The A Line light rail The B Line rapid transit The C Line light rail The D Line rapid transit The E Line light rail The G Line bus rapid transit The J Line bus rapid transit The K Line light railThe system s light rail lines are the second busiest LRT system in the United States after Boston by number of riders with 200 300 average weekday boardings during the third quarter of 2012 95 By 2019 it had become the most heavily ridden light rail system in the country 96 Since the region of the city is in close proximity to a major fault area the tunnels were built to resist earthquakes of up to magnitude 7 5 Both subway lines use an electrified third rail to provide power to the trains rendering these lines unusable on the other three The Blue and Gold Lines run mostly at grade with some street running elevated and underground stretches in the more densely populated areas of Los Angeles The Green Line is entirely grade separated running in the median of I 105 and then turning southward along an elevated route The rail lines run regularly on a 5 am and midnight schedule seven days a week Limited service on particular segments is provided after midnight and before 5 am There is no rail service between 2 and 3 30 am Exact times vary from route to route see individual route articles for more information Other authorities edit In addition to Metro other providers provide local service within their jurisdictions These include the Orange County Transportation Authority San Bernardino County Transportation Authority and Riverside Transit Agency citation needed Regional and commuter rail edit nbsp Map of MetrolinkThere are two providers of heavy rail transportation in the region Amtrak and Metrolink Amtrak provides service to San Diego Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo and points in between on the Pacific Surfliner It also provides long distance routes including the Coast Starlight which goes to the San Francisco Bay Area Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington the Southwest Chief which goes to Flagstaff Arizona Albuquerque New Mexico Kansas City Missouri and Chicago and the Sunset Limited which provides limited service three days a week to Tucson El Paso Houston and New Orleans Metrolink provides service to numerous places within Southern California including all counties in the region Metrolink operates to 67 stations on eight lines within Southern California which mostly except for the Inland Empire Orange County Line and Arrow radiate from Los Angeles Union Station Sports editMain article Sports in Los Angeles Further information History of the National Football League in Los Angeles This section is missing information about San Bernardino Riverside and Ventura counties Please expand the section to include this information Further details may exist on the talk page November 2020 Professional teams edit Main article Sports in Los Angeles As a whole the Los Angeles area has more national championships all sports combined college and professional than any other city in the United States with over four times as many championships as the entire state of Texas and just over twice that of New York City 97 It is the only American city to host the summer Olympic games twice once in 1932 and more recently in 1984 Lake Placid hosted the winter Olympic games twice once in 1932 and once in 1980 Los Angeles will also be the host of the 2028 Summer Olympics becoming the third city to host three Olympic Games after London and Paris nbsp Staples Center in Downtown Los AngelesTable of professional teams and venues edit Team Sport League VenueLos Angeles Rams American football National Football League SoFi StadiumLos Angeles ChargersLos Angeles Dodgers Baseball Major League Baseball Dodger StadiumLos Angeles Angels Angel StadiumLos Angeles Lakers Basketball National Basketball Association Crypto com ArenaLos Angeles ClippersLos Angeles Sparks Women s National Basketball AssociationLos Angeles Kings Ice hockey National Hockey LeagueAnaheim Ducks Honda CenterLA Galaxy Soccer Major League Soccer Dignity Health Sports ParkLos Angeles FC BMO StadiumAngel City FC National Women s Soccer LeagueOther professional venues include Auto Club Raceway Pomona Auto Club Speedway John C Argue Swim Stadium Long Beach Marine Stadium Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Temporary Rose Bowl Santa Anita Park Kia Forum VELO Sports CenterNCAA Division I college sports edit nbsp UCLA USC rivalry both universities are located in Los Angeles and are members of the Pac 12 Conference and will move together to the Big Ten Conference in 2024 The rivalry between the two is among the more unusual in National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I sports because the campuses are only 12 miles 19 km apart and both are located within the same megacity California Baptist Lancers Cal State Fullerton Titans Cal State Northridge Matadors Long Beach State Beach Loyola Marymount Lions Pepperdine Waves UC Irvine Anteaters UC Riverside Highlanders UCLA Bruins FBS USC Trojans FBS Other sports edit The Greater Los Angeles area also has three well known horse racing facilities Santa Anita Park Los Alamitos Race Course and the former Hollywood Park Racetrack and three major motorsport venues Auto Club Speedway Long Beach street circuit and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona In addition the city of Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in 1932 and 1984 For over twenty years the Los Angeles area media market lacked a National Football League team After the 1994 season the Los Angeles Rams moved to St Louis Missouri and the Los Angeles Raiders returned to their original home of Oakland California due to the lack of an up to date NFL stadium After numerous stadium proposals between 1995 and 2016 in an attempt to bring the NFL back 98 99 100 the Oakland Raiders St Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers all submitted plans to relocate back to Los Angeles after the 2015 NFL season On January 12 2016 the Rams were approved to move to Los Angeles and build the venue eventually known as SoFi Stadium with the Chargers or Raiders given the option to join them On January 12 2017 the Chargers announced their move to Los Angeles to 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