Central Los Angeles is the historical urban region of the city of

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, containing

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, and several nearby regions in southwest

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Geographic designation by The City of Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Department of City Planning divides the city into Area Planning Commission (APC) areas, each further divided into Community Plan areas (CPAs). The Central Los Angeles APC area is made up of the following six CPAs: * Central City CPA * Central City North CPA *

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CPA * Westlake CPA * Wilshire CPA Each CPA is divided by neighborhood council, though a neighborhood council can cover an area in more than one CPA. Neighborhoods within each CPA include the following: Central City CPA * Bunker Hill * Central City East *

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district * El Pueblo district * Fashion District * Historic Core * Little Tokyo *

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Central City North CPA *

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* Little Tokyo (partly) *

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Wilshire CPA *

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Hancock Park Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. The park's destinations include the La Brea Tar Pits; the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, which displa ...

* Windsor Square * Larchmont * Mid-Wilshire * Mid-City * Beverly–Fairfax * Carthay * Pico–Robertson (partly) Hollywood CPA * Bird Streets * Beachwood Canyon * East Hollywood * Hollywood * Hollywood Hills * Laurel Canyon (partly) * Little Armenia * Los Feliz * Thai Town Westlake CPA * Westlake *

Historic Filipinotown Historic Filipinotown (alternately known as HiFi) is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods (Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, and Thai Town) in ...

* Temple–Beaudry

Geographic designation by Mapping L.A. Project

According to the

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survey of the ''Los Angeles Times,'' the Central Los Angeles region constitutes and comprises twenty-three

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s within the

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, as well as

Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park includes popular attractions such as the Los Angeles Zoo, the Autry Museum of the Amer ...

, the city's largest

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. In Mapping L.A., the Central Los Angeles region consists of: * Arlington Heights *

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Carthay Carthay is a half-square-mile neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It contains Carthay Circle, Carthay Square and South Carthay.Chinatown Chinatown ( zh, t=唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, O ...

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* East Hollywood *

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Elysian Park Elysian Park is one of the largest parks in Los Angeles, California, United States, at 600 acres (240 ha). Most of Elysian Park falls in the neighborhood of the same name, but a small portion of the park falls in Echo Park. The park was created ...

Elysian Valley Elysian Valley, commonly known as Frogtown, is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, adjoining the Los Angeles River. It has a series of parks maintained by the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority (MRCA), as well as The ...

* Faircrest Heights *

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Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills is a residential neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It borders Studio City, Universal City and Burbank on the north, Griffith Park on the north and east, Los Feliz on the southeast, Hollyw ...

* Hollywood Hills West *

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* Mid-City *

Mid-Wilshire Mid-Wilshire is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is known for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Petersen Automotive Museum, and the Miracle Mile shopping district. Geography City of Los Angeles bo ...

Pico-Union Pico-Union is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. The name "Pico-Union" refers to the neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Union Avenue. Located immediately west of Downtown Los Angeles, it is home ...

* Silver Lake *

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* Westlake *

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Population

The following data applies to Central Los Angeles within the boundaries set by Mapping L.A.: In the 2000 United States Census, Central Los Angeles had 836,638 residents in its , including the uninhabited Griffith and Elysian parks, which amounted to 14,458 people per square mile. The densest neighborhood was Koreatown, and the least dense was Elysian Park. The four densest regions by population were in Central Los Angeles:

with 42,611 residents per square mile, followed by Westlake, 38,214; East Hollywood, 31,095, and

, 25,352.
"Density," Mapping L.A., ''Los Angeles Times'' About 81% of the area's population lived in rental units, while 19% lived in owner-occupied housing. Westlake was the neighborhood with the highest rental occupancy, and Hollywood Hills West had the lowest. The latter district also had the oldest population, and Pico-Union had the youngest. Hollywood Hills West also was the wealthiest neighborhood, and Downtown was the poorest. Hollywood Hills West was the neighborhood with the largest percentage of residents holding a four-year academic degree, and Pico-Union had the lowest percentage. The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was Hispanic and Latino Americans, Latino 46.1%;

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26.4%, Asian 16.2%;

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8.2%, and other 3.1%. Mid-Wilshire was the most ethnically diverse neighborhood and Pico-Union the least.

Geographic designation by The City of Los Angeles

Geographic designation by Mapping L.A. Project

Population

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