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Huntington Park is a city in Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, California

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, United States
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. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 61,348.

d for prominent industrialist Henry Huntington, Huntington Park was incorporated in 1906 as a streetcar suburb
Streetcar suburb

A streetcar suburb is a community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation....
 for workers in the rapidly expanding industries to the southeast of downtown Los Angeles. (To this day, about 30% of its residents work at factories in nearby Vernon
Vernon, California

Vernon is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 91 at the 2000 census. It has the smallest population of any incorporated city in Southern California; most of the city's land area is occupied by industrial facilities....
 and Commerce
Commerce, California

Commerce is a suburb of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 12,568 at the 2000 census. It is bordered by Vernon, California on the west, Los Angeles on the northwest, East Los Angeles, California on the north, Montebello, California on the east, Downey, California and Bell Gardens, Cal...
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Huntington Park is a city in Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County is a County in California, and is by far, the most List of the most populous counties in the United States in the United States....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 61,348.

History

Named for prominent industrialist Henry Huntington, Huntington Park was incorporated in 1906 as a streetcar suburb
Streetcar suburb

A streetcar suburb is a community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation....
 for workers in the rapidly expanding industries to the southeast of downtown Los Angeles. (To this day, about 30% of its residents work at factories in nearby Vernon
Vernon, California

Vernon is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 91 at the 2000 census. It has the smallest population of any incorporated city in Southern California; most of the city's land area is occupied by industrial facilities....
 and Commerce
Commerce, California

Commerce is a suburb of Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 12,568 at the 2000 census. It is bordered by Vernon, California on the west, Los Angeles on the northwest, East Los Angeles, California on the north, Montebello, California on the east, Downey, California and Bell Gardens, Cal...
. ) The stretch of Pacific Boulevard
Pacific Boulevard

Pacific Boulevard is a street and principal commercial thoroughfare in the city of Huntington Park, California. It runs from Vernon and Santa Fe Avenues in Vernon to Cudahy Avenue in South Gate before changing to Long Beach Boulevard....
 in downtown Huntington Park was a major commercial district serving the city's largely working-class residents, as well as those of neighboring cities such as Bell
Bell, California

Bell is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 36,664 at the 2000 census.Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is situated north of South Gate, California....
, Cudahy
Cudahy, California

Cudahy is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. In terms of area, Cudahy is the second smallest city in Los Angeles County with one of the highest population densities of any incorporated city in the United States....
, South Gate
South Gate, California

South Gate is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It is part of the Gateway Cities region of southeastern Los Angeles County....
, and Downey. As with most of the other cities along the corridor stretching along the Los Angeles River
Los Angeles River

The Los Angeles River starts in San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, and Santa Susana Mountains and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles southeast to its mouth in Long Beach, California....
 to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park was an almost exclusively white community during most of its history; Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue
Slauson Avenue

Slauson Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare for southern Los Angeles County, named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J....
, which were fiercely defended segregation lines in the 1950s, separated it from black areas.

The changes that shaped Los Angeles from the late 1970s onward--the decline of American manufacturing that began in the 1970s; the rapid growth of newer suburbs in Orange County
Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in Southern California California, United States. Its county seat is Santa Ana, California. The state of California estimates its population as of 2008 to be 3,121,251, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County, California and San Diego County, California....
, the eastern San Gabriel
San Gabriel Valley

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, western San Fernando
San Fernando Valley

The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in Southern California, United States. More than half of the city of Los Angeles' land area lies within the San Fernando Valley....
 and Conejo
Conejo Valley

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 valleys; the collapse of the aerospace and defense industry at the end of the Cold War
Cold War

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; and the implosion of the Southern California real estate boom in the early 1990s--resulted in the wholesale departure of virtually all of the white population of Huntington Park by the mid-1990s. The vacuum was filled almost entirely by two groups of Latino
Latino

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s: upwardly mobile families eager to leave the barrios of East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the area had a total population of 124,283....
, and recent Mexican
Mexico

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 immigrants. Today, Pacific Boulevard is once again a thriving commercial strip, serving once again as a major retail center for working-class residents of southeastern Los Angeles County--but unlike its previous heyday of the 1930s, the signs along the avenue's storefronts are now primarily in Spanish.

Geography

Huntington Park is located at (33.982364, -118.217381).

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

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, the city has a total area of 7.8 km² (3.0 mi²), all land.

Cities surrounding Huntington Park include Bell
Bell, California

Bell is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 36,664 at the 2000 census.Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is situated north of South Gate, California....
, Cudahy
Cudahy, California

Cudahy is a city located in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. In terms of area, Cudahy is the second smallest city in Los Angeles County with one of the highest population densities of any incorporated city in the United States....
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, Maywood, South Gate
South Gate, California

South Gate is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. It is part of the Gateway Cities region of southeastern Los Angeles County....
, and Vernon
Vernon, California

Vernon is a city in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 91 at the 2000 census. It has the smallest population of any incorporated city in Southern California; most of the city's land area is occupied by industrial facilities....
. In addition unincorporated area
Unincorporated area

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s, including Walnut Park
Walnut Park, California

Walnut Park is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. The population was 16,180 at the 2000 census....
, are adjacent to Huntington Park.

Demographics

According to the census
Census

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 of 2000, there were 61,348 people, 14,860 households, and 12,660 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

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 was 7,817.4/km² (20,252.4/mi²). There were 15,335 housing units at an average density of 1,954.1/km² (5,062.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 2.42% White
Race (United States Census)

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, 0.78% Black
Race (United States Census)

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 or African American
Race (United States Census)

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, 1.01% Native American
Race (United States Census)

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, 0.80% Asian
Race (United States Census)

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, 0.06% Pacific Islander
Race (United States Census)

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, 5.07% from other races
Race (United States Census)

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, and 4.86% from two or more races. 95.58% of the population were Hispanic or Latino
Race (United States Census)

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 of any race.

There were 14,860 households out of which 58.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples
Marriage

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 living together, 20.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 14.8% were non-families. 10.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.12 and the average family size was 4.34.

In the city the population was spread out with 35.8% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 13.8% from 45 to 64, and 5.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females there were 100.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.3 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $28,941, and the median income for a family was $29,844. Males had a median income of $21,039 versus $16,733 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

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 for the city was $9,340. About 23.3% of families and 25.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.5% of those under age 18 and 18.7% of those age 65 or over.

Government and infrastructure

Fire protection in Huntington Park is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department
Los Angeles County Fire Department

The Los Angeles County Fire Department , serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, California, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and Emergency Medical Service services, including the City of La Habra, in Orange County, California....
. The LACFD operates Station #164, the battalion headquarters, at 6301 South Santa Fe Avenue and Station #165 at 3255 Saturn Avenue, both in Huntington Park, as a part of Battalion 13. The Huntington Park Police Department provides law enforcement.

In the state legislature
California State Legislature

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 Huntington Park is located in the 30th Senate
California State Senate

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 District, represented by Democrat Ronald S. Calderon
Ronald S. Calderon

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, and in the 46th Assembly
California State Assembly

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 District, represented by Democrat John Pérez
John Pérez

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. Federally, Huntington Park is located in California's 34th congressional district
California's 34th congressional district

California's 34th congressional district covers part of Los Angeles County, California and is California's most heavily Hispanic district. Its current representative is Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard....
, which has a Cook PVI
Cook Partisan Voting Index

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 of D +23 and is represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard
Lucille Roybal-Allard

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.

The United States Postal Service
United States Postal Service

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 operates the Huntington Park Post Office at 6606 Seville Avenue,, the Soto Post Office at 5625 Soto Street, and the State Street Post Office at 7800 State Street.

Education

Huntington Park is zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District

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.

Public elementary schools that serve the city include:
  • Hope Street Elementary School (Huntington Park) (Opened 2005 )
  • Huntington Park New Elementary School 7 (Opened 2006 )
  • Middleton Elementary School (Huntington Park) and Middleton New Primary Center (K)
  • Miles Elementary School (Huntington Park)
  • Pacific Boulevard School (Huntington Park, Opened 2005 )
  • San Antonio Elementary School (Huntington Park)
  • Walnut Park Elementary School (Huntington Park)
  • Huntington Park New Elementary #3 (Huntington Park, opening soon)


Public middle schools include:
  • Gage Middle School (Huntington Park)
  • Nimitz Middle School (Huntington Park)
  • Centennial College Preparatory Academy


Huntington Park High School
Huntington Park High School

Huntington Park High School is a secondary school in Huntington Park, California, California, United States.HPHS, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District....
 (Huntington Park) is the main high school for the city. San Antonio Continuation School and Huntington Park College Ready Academy (a public charter school) also serve the high school population. Some parts of Huntington Park are zoned to both Huntington Park and Bell High School
Bell High School (Bell, California)

Bell High school is a secondary school in Bell, California, United States.The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of District 6 of the Los Angeles Unified School District....
.

South Region High School 7 will open in Huntington Park in 2011 .

In addition Pacific Boulevard Special Education Center (ungraded) is in the city.

Private schools include:
  • Church of the Nazarene School (K-6)
  • St. Matthias Elementary School (K-8)
  • California Interamerican High School (Ungraded)


Public libraries

County of Los Angeles Public Library
County of Los Angeles Public Library

The County of Los Angeles Public Library system serves residents living in 51 of the 88 incorporation cities of Los Angeles County, California....
 operates the Huntington Park Library at 6518 Miles Avenue.

See also

  • South Central Los Angeles
    South Los Angeles

    South Los Angeles, often abbreviated as South L.A., is the official name for a large geographic and cultural portion lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California....


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