Athens is an
unincorporated community
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in the
South Los Angeles region of
Los Angeles County, California
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, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of
Los Angeles Southwest College.
Geography
Athens is south of unincorporated
Westmont, east of
Hawthorne, north of
Gardena, and west of the
Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles.
[ It is bounded on the north by Imperial Highway, on the east by ]Vermont Avenue
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, on the south by El Segundo Boulevard and the Gardena city limits and on the west by South Van Ness Avenue, South Wilton Place and the Hawthorne city boundary. It is bisected by the Interstate 105 Century Freeway.
area code 310
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. It lies at an elevation of 171 feet (52 m).
Demographics
In the 2000 census, there were 9,101 people in Athens' 1.33 square miles, which put its population density
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at 6,829 per square mile, "among the lowest densities for South L.A.," according to the ''Los Angeles Times.'' The ethnic distribution was black, 54.3%; Latino, 39.78%; Asian, 2.9%; white, 1.2%, and other, 2%. Twenty-eight percent of the residents were foreign born, average for both South Los Angeles and for the county as a whole. Mexican and Belize
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an were the most common ancestries, and Mexico and El Salvador
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were the most common foreign places of birth.[
The median income was $48,824 in 2008 dollars, which was considered high for the South Los Angeles region. One-eighth of residents aged 25 or older had a college degree, which was "high for South L.A. but low for the county," the ''Times'' reported. The median age was 27, "about average for South L.A. but young for the county," and the percentage of residents ages 10 or younger was among the county's highest. There were 520 families headed by single parents, low for South L.A. but high for the county.][
The percentage of veterans who served during the ]Vietnam war
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was among the county's highest.[
]
Government
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department operates the South Los Angeles station in Athens, at 1310 West Imperial Highway.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
See also
* West Athens, California, West Athens
References
External links
Athens Services
"The Bastard Question: A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war"
''LA Weekly
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'' article that reports on a movie by Cle "Bone" Sloan about the Athens Park Bloods gang and other gangs in Los Angeles
The Homicide Report
Homicide report for Athens, ''Los Angeles Times''
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Unincorporated communities in Los Angeles County, California
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