Hyde Park, Los Angeles, California

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Hyde Park is a district in south Los Angeles. It is bordered by Inglewood to the East, Leimert Park to the north and Crenshaw to the north. Hyde Park Starts at Florence Avenue to the south going on Crenshaw Blvd.

[edit] Demographics

Hyde Park is a majority black area, just like most of this portion of Los Angeles. Several Blacks moved to this area from nearby places like Compton, and Watts. The population is around 37,000.(As of 2006)the racial make up of Hyde Park was 1.63% White, 68.73% Black, 0.38% American Indian & Alaskan Native alone, 0.71% Asian, 0.06% Native Hawaiin & Other Pacific Islander alone, 17.11% some other race, 3.95% two or more races, and 27.32% of the population were Hispanic or Latino. Like most of South Los Angeles today, Hyde Park is a mixture of blacks and Hispanics, even though blacks make up over 60% of the population.