Greater Los Angeles Area

Los Angeles - Long Beach - Riverside
Map of Greater Los Angeles Area

Common name: Greater Los Angeles Area
Largest city Los Angeles
Other cities  - Long Beach
 - Santa Ana
 - Anaheim
 - Riverside
 - San Bernardino
 - Glendale
 - Irvine
 - Pasadena
Population  Ranked 2nd in the U.S.
 - Total CSA: 17,786,419 [1]
Area 33,954 sq. mi.
87,490 km²
State(s)  California
Elevation   
 - Highest point San Gorgonio Mountain 11,499 feet (3,505 m)
 - Lowest point Wilmington[2] -9 feet (3 m)
Los Angeles, CA from the air

The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is a popular term for the agglomeration of urbanized area around the county of Los Angeles, California. The terms are not officially defined but are in common use in speech and writing[3] [4] to refer to the more-or-less continuously urbanized area stretching from Ventura or even Santa Barbara in the north to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire.[5] The Greater Los Angeles area is generally taken to include the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and the Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura area.[6] The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties, whose urbanized areas are not geographically continuous with the urbanized area surrounding Los Angeles. However, the term "Southland" is sometimes used to refer to all of Southern California.[7]

It is the most commonly used term for the Combined Statistical Area (a group of interacting metropolitan areas) sprawled over five counties in the southern part of California, namely Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County. A common unofficial definition includes the region ranging from Ventura County to the Cucamonga Valley southwestern area of San Bernardino County. The region contains some of the most affluent areas of the country. It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades, first in Los Angeles County, then Orange County, and now in the Inland Empire. As of 2005, the official estimate of the population of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is more than 12.9 million, while the larger five-county region has a population of over 17.6 million. Either definition makes it the second-largest core-based statistical area[8] in the country, behind the New York metropolitan area.

The United States Census Bureau has designated the five county region as the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area, with a July 1, 2006 population estimate of 17,776,000.[9] According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Los Angeles metropolitan area has a total area of 4,850 square miles (12,561.442 km2), while the wider combined statistical area covers 33,954 square miles (87,940.456 km2), but more than half of this is the sparsely populated eastern areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

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Metropolitan Statistical Area

The counties and county groupings comprising the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area are listed below with 2008 U.S. Census Bureau estimates of their populations.[1]

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area (12,872,808)

Combined Statistical Area

Downtown Los Angeles, from the University of Southern California
Los Angeles Basin image from Landsat (vertical scale exaggerated). Palos Verdes peninsula in foreground; Port of Los Angeles to right.

In addition to the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, the following Metropolitan Statistical Areas are also included in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA Combined Statistical Area (total pop. 17,786,419):[1]

The combined statistical area is a multicore metropolitan region containing several urban areas.

Population
Rank
Urbanized Area State(s) 2000
Population
2 Los AngelesLong BeachSanta Ana CA 11,789,487
14 Riverside–San Bernardino CA 1,506,816
68 Mission Viejo CA 533,015
91 Oxnard CA 337,591
123 PalmdaleLancaster CA 263,532
125 Indio–Cathedral City–Palm Springs CA 254,856
131 Temecula–Murrieta CA 229,810
143 Thousand Oaks CA 210,990
150 Victorville–Hesperia–Apple Valley CA 200,436
176 Santa Clarita CA 170,481
227 Hemet CA 117,200
238 Simi Valley CA 112,345
368 Camarillo CA 62,798

Economic Area

The Bureau of Economic Analysis defines an even larger region known as an "economic area", which delineates the relevant regional market surrounding a metropolitan area. Economic areas consist of one or more economic nodes, which are MSAs or CSAs. Economic areas are defined as a collection of nodes and other outlying counties on the basis of commuting data and newspaper circulation data.

The Los Angeles Economic Area consists of the following nodes:

In addition to the above, the economic area includes La Paz County in Arizona, and Inyo and Mono counties in California.

Counties in the Southland

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles. Rafael Moneo, architect

Regions of the Southland

California Poppies in Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
"Angel Flight", Third & Hill Streets, Los Angeles, 1960
  • Antelope Valley
  • Downtown Los Angeles
  • Conejo Valley
  • Crescenta Valley
  • East Los Angeles
  • Gateway Cities
  • Orange County
  • Oxnard Plain
  • San Fernando Valley
  • San Gabriel Valley
  • Santa Clarita Valley
  • South Bay
  • South Los Angeles
  • West Los Angeles

Principal cities

The following is a list of principal cities in the Greater Los Angeles Area with 2009 California Department of Finance estimates of their population:[10]

William Wrigley House, Santa Catalina Island, 1974 photo

Los Angeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana MSA

    • Alhambra (89,171)
    • Whittier (86,788)
    • Newport Beach (86,252)
    • Baldwin Park (84,812)
    • Lakewood (83,508)
    • Buena Park (83,385)
    • Lake Forest (78,344)
    • Tustin (74,825)
    • Yorba Linda (68,399)
    • Redondo Beach (67,646)
    • Montebello (65,667)
    • Gardena (61,810)
    • Diamond Bar (60,360)
    • Paramount (57,874)
    • Arcadia (56,565)
    • Cerritos (54,855)

Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario MSA

El Molino Viejo, San Marino, built 1812. Photo from Historic American Buildings Survey
    • Rialto (100,022)
    • Hesperia (88,184)
    • Chino (84,173)
    • Indio (82,230)
    • Chino Hills (78,725)
    • Upland (75,035)
    • Hemet (74,361)
    • Redlands (71,646)
    • Apple Valley (69,861)

Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura MSA

Ventura City Hall in Old Town Ventura.


Geography

The Los Angeles Basin, viewed south from Mulholland Drive. From left to right can be seen the San Gabriel Mountains (horizon), downtown L.A., West Hollywood, the Hollywood Bowl (foreground), West Los Angeles, Palos Verdes (background), Catalina Island (horizon), Santa Monica, and the Pacific Ocean.

Urban Form

Skyscrapers in Downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles has a long-standing reputation for sprawl. However, according to the 2000 Census, the "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana" Urbanized Area had a population density of 7,068 inhabitants per square mile (2,729 /km2), covering 1,668 square miles (4,320 km2) of land area, making it the most densely-populated Urbanized Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau) in the United States.[11] For comparison, the "New York–Newark" Urbanized Area as a whole had a population density of 5,309 per square mile (2,050 /km2), covering 3,353 square miles (8,684 km2) of land area.

The popular conception of Los Angeles as a sprawling city may originate in the region's decentralized structure. Rather than being concentrated in a single downtown area, the region's major cultural, commercial, residential, political, industrial, and institutional resources are geographically dispersed. While the overall density of the city (municipality) of Los Angeles is low compared to some other large American cities (less than one-third the density of New York City, for instance),[12] the region includes largely uninhabited areas such as parts of the Santa Monica Mountains. Also, many of the city's suburban satellites have densities among the highest in the nation.[13] The population density of the central area was more than 13,500 per square mile (5,212 /km2) in 2000.[14] Within its urbanized areas, Los Angeles is noted for small lot sizes, low vacancy rates, and general lack of large exurban spreads. Buildings in the area are low high when compared to other large cities because of aesthetically-focused 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.[15]

A flat land area in the greater Los Angeles area completely filled with houses, buildings, roads, and freeways

Suburban areas surround the city of Los Angeles on all sides. 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. Much of the working class whites migrated to this area during the 1960s and 1970s out of East and Central Los Angeles.[16] 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.[17] 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, this area which was once a relatively inexpensive area to buy real estate, saw rising real estate prices well into the 2000s.[18] Median home prices in the Conejo Valley for instance, now range from $700,000 to $2.2 million.[19]

The Los Angeles area continues to grow, principally on the periphery where new, cheaper, undeveloped areas are being sought.[20] 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.[21] 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 [2].

Identity

The term "Greater Los Angeles" can be used to denote the metropolitan area or the consolidated area. The term "Southland" is more nebulous and can refer to either. Additionally, the Southland is used more so in local media than by residents. As is the case in virtually all major metropolitan areas, most employment is now outside the downtown core and many people commute and conduct all of their daily activities in suburban areas, such as the large counties and the municipalities that are outside the city of Los Angeles.[22]

Regional identity remains a contentious issue, with many residents refusing to acknowledge any association with the whole. For example, while Los Angeles County and Orange County share a geographical border, the two also share a host of sharp demographic, political, and financial distinctions. Orange County is often identified apart from Los Angeles in popular media and by residents. Relatively few people living in Orange County commute to Los Angeles for employment. Western Riverside County and San Bernardino County have become commuter regions characteristic of other suburban counties throughout the nation. Most residents in these counties commute to Los Angeles County and Orange County for employment.[23] Riverside County and San Bernardino County also maintain distinct identities because of their geographical boundaries and vast distances that separate the eastern portions of those counties from the rest of the Los Angeles area.

Boundaries

Los Angeles Basin at dawn

Some areas are 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. Or, the San Fernando Valley: lying north-northwest of downtown ("The Valley") is a 15 miles (24 km) wide basin ringed by mountains.

Some other areas of Los Angeles include the Westside; South L.A. (formerly known as South Central L.A.); and the San Pedro/Harbor City area. Adjoining areas that are outside the actual city boundaries of the incorporated city of Los Angeles include the South Bay, the Gateway Cities, the San Gabriel Valley and the Foothills. The San Pedro/Harbor City area was annexed by the city of Los Angeles so the city could have access to and control over the Port of Los Angeles. It is connected to the rest of L.A. only by a narrow corridor that generally follows the Harbor Freeway. Many Angelenos consider the Eastside to be the area east of the Los Angeles River, south of Glendale and Pasadena, and north of the Gateway Cities, including the area of unincorporated Los Angeles County that includes East Los Angeles.

The city boundaries are quite complicated. For example, Beverly Hills and West Hollywood are completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles except for a small border the two cities share. Culver City is surrounded by L.A. except where it shares a boundary with the unincorporated communities of Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills. Both Santa Monica and the unincorporated area of Marina del Rey are surrounded except on their ocean side. San Fernando in the northern corner of the San Fernando Valley is also a separate city entirely surrounded by L.A. territory. Despite the large footprint of the City of L.A., a majority of the land area within Los Angeles County is unincorporated and under the primary jurisdiction of Los Angeles County. Most of the unincorporated land, however, is part of the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountain ranges, or the Mojave Desert, and is thus primarily undeveloped, except on the fringes of the incorporated cities, but there are several fully built-out, but unincorporated areas in the contiguous urbanized part of the region, one of the most well-known being East Los Angeles.

Demographics

Historical populations
Census Pop.
1900 250,187
1910 648,316 159.1%
1920 1,150,252 77.4%
1930 2,597,066 125.8%
1940 3,252,720 25.2%
1950 4,934,246 51.7%
1960 7,751,616 57.1%
1970 9,972,037 28.6%
1980 11,497,486 15.3%
1990 14,531,529 26.4%
2000 16,373,645 12.7%
historical data source:[24]

According to the 2000 census, there were 16,373,645 people residing in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The racial makeup of the area was 55.14% White (39.01% White Non-Hispanic), 10.39% Asian, 0.29% Pacific Islander, 7.60% African American, 0.87% Native American, 21.00% from other races, and 4.70% from two or more races. 40.30% of the population were Hispanic of any race. 30.95% of the population (5.068 million) was foreign born; of this, 62.07% came from Latin America, 28.93% from Asia, 6.00% from Europe, and 3.00% from other parts of the world. 20.22% of the population (3.310 million) was born in different states.

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 and aerospace which in turn attracted millions of people from all over the United States and world. Citrus production was important to the region's development in the earlier part of the 20th century.[25]

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. 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 Magazine predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass New York by 1975, and that by 1990, would reach close to the 19 million mark.[26] 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[27], but the article predicted the population would be 18.3 million in that year, a number Greater New York has already surpassed as of 2007 by half a million people. Because present statistics for 2008 are unknown, according to the most recent numbers, Greater New York in 2007, using the Combined Statistical Area, had just over 4.2 million more people (21.97 million) than Greater Los Angeles had in 2006 (est.).

Politics

Presidential Election Results
Year GOP DEM Others
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. Ventura County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County are relative Republican strongholds, but are increasingly becoming Democratic. Orange County is more Republican compared to the other counties.

Economy

Greater Los Angeles Area is an economic powerhouse, ranking as the third largest metropolitan economy in the world, behind Greater Tokyo Area and New York Metropolitan Area. A 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers study showed that Los Angeles urban area had a $639 billion economy.[28] Greater Los Angeles (including Inland Empire and Ventura county) had a $770.6 billion economy.[29]

Greater Los Angeles Area is the home of the US National headquarters of almost all Asian car manufacturers except Nissan and Subaru (Nissan moved to Tennessee); Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Hyundai and Kia have set up their National headquarters here.

As the "Entertainment Capital of the World", Los Angeles features an abundance of attractions, and the Greater L.A. Area is one of the most visited areas in the world. Major attractions include:

Theme parks

Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park

Beaches

Laguna Beach coastline is popular for sunbathers

Shopping

Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills
  • Americana at Brand
  • Bella Terra
  • Beverly Center
  • The Block at Orange
  • Cerritos Auto Square
  • Cerritos Towne Center
  • Downtown Disney
  • Fashion Island
  • Glendale Galleria
  • The Grove at Farmer's Market
  • Hollywood and Highland
  • Irvine Spectrum Center
  • Los Cerritos Center
  • Old Pasadena
  • Ontario Mills
  • Paseo Colorado
  • Rodeo Drive
  • South Coast Plaza
  • Third Street Promenade
  • Universal CityWalk
  • Valencia Town Center
  • Victoria Gardens
  • Westfield Century City
  • Westfield MainPlace
  • Westfield Santa Anita
  • Westfield Topanga
  • Westside Pavilion

Motion picture studios

Waterparks

  • Raging Waters
  • Knott's Soak City USA
  • Six Flags Hurricane Harbor
  • Wild Rivers

Zoos and aquariums

Los Angeles Zoo
  • Los Angeles Zoo
  • Santa Ana Zoo
  • Aquarium of the Pacific

Nightlife

Museums

See also, Los Angeles City Museums

The Getty Center sits on a hill overlooking Los Angeles
  • Bowers Museum
  • Heritage Square Museum
  • California Science Center
  • Discovery Science Center
  • Getty Center
  • Getty Villa
  • Griffith Observatory
  • Huntington Library
  • La Brea Tar Pits
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • Norton Simon Museum
  • Kidspace Children's Museum
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Latin American Art
  • Museum of Tolerance
  • Petersen Automotive Museum
  • Toyota USA Automobile Museum

Presidential Museums

Other

Commercial airports

Airport IATA code ICAO code County
Los Angeles International Airport LAX KLAX Los Angeles
LA/Ontario International Airport ONT KONT San Bernardino
John Wayne Airport SNA KSNA Orange
Bob Hope Airport BUR KBUR Los Angeles
Long Beach Municipal Airport LGB KLGB Los Angeles

Sports

Major sports teams serving the Greater Los Angeles area include the Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, the Los Angeles Galaxy and Chivas USA of Major League Soccer, and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Greater Los Angeles area also has two well-known horse racing facilities: Santa Anita Park and Hollywood Park Racetrack, and four major motorsport venues: Auto Club Speedway, Long Beach street circuit, Irwindale Speedway and Auto Club Raceway at Pomona.

The Los Angeles media market currently lacks 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.{[Fact}}

There were several years that made Los Angeles area sports dominate:{[Fact}}

In 2007, the Los Angeles area finally acquired the only title that had eluded the region, when the Anaheim Ducks captured the Stanley Cup chamipionship over the Ottawa Senators, in the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals.

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.[30]

See also

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