Hyde Park, Los Angeles

For other uses, see Hyde Park (disambiguation).
The Hyde Park neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, as drawn by the Los Angeles Times

Hyde Park is a former city which consolidated with the city of Los Angeles, California, and is now a neighborhood within it.

Geography

Description

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Hyde Park touches Leimert Park on the north, the Exposition Park neighborhood, Vermont Square and Manchester Square on the east, Inglewood on the south and west and View Park-Windsor Hills on the northwest.[1] It is bounded by West Vernon Avenue on the north, South Van Ness Avenue on the east and the Los Angeles city boundary on the south and west.[2][3] Van Ness recreation center is the only park that exist in the Hyde Park neighborhood.[3]

Adjacent neighborhoods

Relation of Hyde Park to nearby communities:[1]

 Leimert Park
Downtown Inglewood Vermont Square and Manchester Square
   Hyde Park  
Inglewood

History

Hyde Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles. It was "laid out as a town" in 1887[4] as a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Harbor Subdivision, which ran from Downtown Los Angeles to the port at Wilmington in a westward loop.

It was incorporated as a city in 1922 and had its own government. However, on May 17, 1923, its 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2) was consolidated with the larger city of LA after a favorable vote by Hyde Park residents. The city of Hyde Park was bordered by 60th Street on the north, Van Ness (now 8th) Avenue on the east, Florence Avenue on the south, and West Boulevard on the west.[5]

Hyde Park grew slowly until the 1920s, during which time developers erected thousands of single-family houses and duplexes (many of which were replaced by apartment buildings in the 1950s and 1960s). Later, it became a predominantly African-American area, which it has remained into the 21st century.

Population

A total of 36,635 people lived in the neighborhood's 2.88 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 12,700 people per square mile, about the same as the population density in the city as a whole. The median age was 31, also about the same as the rest of the city.[2]

Within the neighborhood, African Americans comprise 66% of the population, with Latinos at 27.2%, White 3%; Asian 1.2% and other 3.6%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 19.5% of the residents who were born abroad, considered a low percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.[2]

The median household income in 2008 dollars was $39,460, considered average for both the city and county. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 2.8 people was also average. Renters occupied 53.3% of the housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest.[2]

In 2000, there were 2,474 families headed by single parents, or 28.5%, a rate that was high for the county and the city. There were 2,237 veterans, or 8% of the population, considered high when compared with the city overall.[2]

  1. View Park-Windsor Hills, California, 86.5%
  2. Gramercy Park, Los Angeles, 86.4%
  3. Leimert Park, Los Angeles, 79.6%
  4. Manchester Square, Los Angeles, 78.6%
  5. Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw, Los Angeles, 71.3%
  6. Ladera Heights, California, 71%
  7. Hyde Park, Los Angeles, 66%
  8. Chesterfield Square, Los Angeles, 58.6%
  9. West Compton, California, 57.6%
  10. Westmont, California, 57.5%

Education

Hyde Park residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 12.2% of the population in 2000, considered low when compared with the city and the county as a whole, but the percentages of residents aged 25 and older with a high school diploma and some college education was high for the county.[2]

Schools within the Hyde Park boundaries are:[3][7]

References

  1. 1 2 "South L.A.", Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Hyde Park", Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
  3. 1 2 3 The Thomas Guide, 2006, pp. 673 and 703.
  4. ↑ Pitt, Leonard; Pitt, Dale (1997). Los Angeles A to Z. p. 216. ISBN 0520202740.
  5. ↑ Annexation and Detachment Map, City of Los Angeles, partial copyright by Thomas Brothers Maps, 2004.
  6. ↑ "Black", Mapping L.A. at Los Angeles Times
  7. ↑ "Hyde Park Schools", Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times

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Coordinates: 33°58′48″N 118°19′48″W / 33.9800°N 118.3300°W / 33.9800; -118.3300

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