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Beverly Hills is a city located in
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, United States. A notable and historic
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of
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, it is located just southwest of the
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, approximately northwest of
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. Beverly Hills' land area totals and (together with the neighboring smaller city of
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to the east) is entirely surrounded by the
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. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 32,701, marking a decrease of 1,408 from the 2010 census count of 34,109. In
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, Beverly Hills has been known as an affluent location within Greater Los Angeles, which corresponds to higher
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and
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in the area. The city is well known for its
Rodeo Drive Rodeo Drive () is a street in Beverly Hills, California, with its southern segment in the City of Los Angeles, known as one of the most expensive streets in the world. Its southern terminus is at Beverwil Drive, and its northern terminus is a ...
shopping district that includes many
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brands. Throughout its history, the city has been home to many
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. It is noted for numerous hotels and
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s, including the
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and the
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. The city has been featured in many movies,
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,
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, and
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, in the United States and internationally. After its initial settlement in 1828, Beverly Hills was originally a primarily
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community centered around
Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was a land grant in present day Beverly Hills in Los Angeles County, California, given to María Rita Quinteros Valdez de Villa in 1838. Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas (Ranch of the Gathering Waters), is named for the stre ...
, a Mexican era rancho grant. Beverly Hills was first incorporated as a city in September 1914 by a group of investors who had failed to find
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but found water instead and eventually decided to develop it into a town.


History


Early history

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arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3, 1769, traveling along native trails which followed the present-day route of
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. The area was settled by
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ranchera María Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828. They called their of property the ''
Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was a land grant in present day Beverly Hills in Los Angeles County, California, given to María Rita Quinteros Valdez de Villa in 1838. Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas (Ranch of the Gathering Waters), is named for the stre ...
''. In 1854, she sold the ranch to
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(1811–1878) and Henry Hancock (1822–1883). By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of and was being rapidly bought up by Anglos from Los Angeles and the East coast.
Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker Andrew Henry Denker (October 17, 1840 – November 13, 1892) was a German-born American businessman and politician was a business partner of Henry Hammel. He and Hammel, his brother-in-law, ran hotels and owned an extensive spread of agricultural ...
acquired most of it and used it for farming lima beans. At this point, the area was known as the Hammel and Denker Ranch. By 1888, they were planning to build a town called Morocco on their holdings.


20th century

In 1900,
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, Charles A. Canfield,
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, Frank H. Buck, Henry E. Huntington,
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, William F. Herrin, W.S. Porter, and Frank H. Balch formed the Amalgamated Oil Company, bought the Hammel and Denker ranch, and began looking for oil. Marc Wanamaker, ''Early Beverly Hills'', Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2005, pp. 17–1

/ref> They did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property "Beverly Hills", subdivided it, and began selling lots. The development was named "Beverly Hills" after
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in
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, and because of the hills in the area. The ''
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'' reported on September 2, 1906:
Percy H. Clark Company are managing the development of the foothill portion of the Hammel & Denker ranch for the Rodeo Land and Water Company (the Canfield-Huntington-Kerckhoff syndicate), to be known as Beverly Hills. No expense is being spared to make this a fine suburban district. . . . The property has been laid out on beautiful curved lines.
The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, but sales remained slow.


Restrictive covenants

Beverly Hills was one of many all-white
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started in the Los Angeles area around this time.
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prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property, unless they were employed as servants by white residents. It was also forbidden to sell or rent property to
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in Beverly Hills.


Incorporation

Burton Green began construction on
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in 1911. The hotel was finished in 1912. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills, and by 1914 the population had grown enough to qualify for incorporation as an independent city. That same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the land company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land and Water Company. In 1919,
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and
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bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921 and nicknamed "
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" by the press. The glamour associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal.


Water supply

By the early 1920s, the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue. In 1923, the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks,
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and
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. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. In 1928, the Beverly Wilshire Apartment Hotel (now the Beverly Wilshire Hotel) opened on Wilshire Boulevard between El Camino and Rodeo drives, part of the old
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. That same year, oilman Edward L. Doheny finished construction of
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, a 55-room mansion meant as a wedding present for his son Edward L. Doheny Jr. The house is now owned by the city of Beverly Hills and is a designated historical landmark. In the early 1930s, Santa Monica Park was renamed Beverly Gardens and was extended to span the entire two-mile (3-kilometer) length of Santa Monica Boulevard through the city. The
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marks the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and Wilshire Blvd. with a small sculpture at the top of a
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kneeling in prayer. In April 1931, the new
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-style
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was opened.


1948: restrictive covenants found unenforceable

In the early 1940s, black actors and businessmen had begun to move into Beverly Hills, despite the covenants allowing only whites to live in the city. A neighborhood improvement association attempted to enforce the covenants in court. The defendants included prominent artists
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,
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, and
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. Among the white residents supporting the lawsuit against blacks was
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, the silent film star. The
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participated in the defense, which was successful. In his decision, federal judge
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said that it was time that "members of the Negro race are accorded, without reservations or evasions, the full rights guaranteed to them under the 14th amendment." The
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declared restrictive covenants unenforceable in 1948 in ''
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''. A group of Jewish residents of Beverly Hills filed an
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in this case. In 1956,
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(1915–1990) purchased the Doheny Ranch and developed it into
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, convincing the city of Beverly Hills to annex it.Myrna Oliver
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''
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''
The neighborhood has been home to
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, and President
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, as well as, in later years,
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,
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,
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and
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. Following the
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in
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, many
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settled in Beverly Hills. In the late 1990s, the
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(LACMTA) proposed to build an extension of the
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along Wilshire Boulevard and into Downtown Beverly Hills, but the city opposed it. The
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will ultimately be completed by 2027 and will include a station at Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive.


21st century

In 2001, LACMTA proposed a bus rapid transit route down Santa Monica Boulevard, but this was opposed by the city and never built. This stretch of road is served by less efficient
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buses using pre-existing roadways. By 2010, traffic in Beverly Hills and surrounding areas had deteriorated enough that the city's habitual opposition had largely turned to support for subways within the city limits. As part of the
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project, the D Line of the
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was intended in 2013 to be extended through Beverly Hills, adding two underground stations at Wilshire/La Cienega and Beverly Drive by the 2020s. The city of Beverly Hills widely opposed
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, the 2008 ballot measure which repealed legal recognition of same-sex marriages. The proposition narrowly passed statewide, but in Beverly Hills, only 34% voted in favor, and 66% voted against it. In the midst of the 2015 drought, Beverly Hills was found to be one of the largest water consumers in California. As a result, it was asked by the state to reduce consumption by 36%, prompting many residents to replace their lawns with
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. Meanwhile, the city government replaced the grass in front of the
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with Mexican sage. In September 2015, the City of Beverly Hills signed an agreement with Israel to work together on water use as well as "cybersecurity, public health, emergency services, disaster preparedness, public safety, counterterrorism and art and culture". In July 2016, the City of Beverly Hills received the Livability Award from the
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for its Ambassador Program, which takes care of the city's homeless population. The Beverly Hills Community Dog Park was dedicated on September 6, 2016. In 2024, the California Attorney General held Beverly Hills accountable for preventing reproductive health clinic from opening, failing to protect California's Constitutional Right to Abortion.


Geography

Beverly Hills and the neighboring city of
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are together entirely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles. Beverly Hills is bordered on the northwest by the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air and the
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, on the east by West Hollywood, the
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neighborhood of Los Angeles. The area's " Platinum Triangle" is formed by the city of Beverly Hills and the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Bel Air and
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. The ZIP codes for Beverly Hills are 90209 (P.O. boxes only), 90210, 90211, 90212, and 90213 (P.O. boxes only).


Areas


The Flats

Most residents live in the "flats" of Beverly Hills, which is a relatively flat area that slopes away from the hills, and includes all of Beverly Hills south of
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and north of
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. This area includes
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.


Trousdale Estates

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is a 410-acre neighborhood of large, luxurious homes in Beverly Hills. It was primarily developed in the 1950s and early 1960s by
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, who petitioned the city to incorporate the land into Beverly Hills soon after purchasing it from the Doheny family.
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, which is listed on the
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, is in Trousdale Estates. The average sale price of homes in Trousdale is over $10 million.


Downtown Beverly Hills

In a triangle surrounded by Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard and Crescent Drive is Downtown Beverly Hills, also known as the Golden Triangle, a retail and dining hub attracting locals, and in some sections attracting visitors from across the region and around the world. *Linden, Roxbury, Bedford and Camden drives, short streets catering to residents' needs, lined with medical offices, bank branches, delicatessens, etc. *
Rodeo Drive Rodeo Drive () is a street in Beverly Hills, California, with its southern segment in the City of Los Angeles, known as one of the most expensive streets in the world. Its southern terminus is at Beverwil Drive, and its northern terminus is a ...
, known for high-end boutiques. *
Beverly Drive Beverly Drive is a major north–south roadway in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. Location South Beverly Drive South Beverly Drive begins northbound at Harlow Avenue, a small street just north of the Santa Monica Freeway in the city of Los An ...
, lined with upscale chain retailers commonly found in malls. Some restaurants line Beverly Drive as well. *Cañon and Crescent drives, attracting local and regional shoppers and diners to restaurants such as
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as well as local favorites, particularly along Cañon. *Wilshire Boulevard is home to the two department stores remaining in the city:
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, and
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. South Beverly Drive, i.e. south of Wilshire Boulevard, is another dining and shopping hub. Houses south of Wilshire Boulevard have more urban square and rectangular lots, in general smaller than those to the north. There are also more apartment buildings south of Wilshire Boulevard than anywhere else in Beverly Hills.


West Gateway

The city’s West Gateway on Wilshire Blvd. borders the
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. The gateway features a hospitality complex consisting of
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, Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, and the currently under-construction One Beverly Hills. This development will include the tallest tower in Beverly Hills. Across from this complex is one of the city’s elementary schools, El Rodeo.


South East

The South East is anchored by
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, a large park that includes city tennis court complex, baseball field, and soccer fields. The region includes the historic Saban Theater as well as the “ Restaurant Row” corridor of La Cienega, including Lawry's, Stinking Rose, and Matsuhisa. It also includes a corridor of medical buildings and office tower, including the Flynt Building, the 99 La Cienega Medical building, and the 240 Medical building. South East Beverly Hills is the site of one of the two
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stations in the city, the Wilshire/La Cienega station, expected to open in 2025. The area is just south of the
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and
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.


Beverly Hills adjacent

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(BHPO) is the name given to a section directly north of the Beverly Hills city limits that lies within the 90210 ZIP code, assigned to the Beverly Hills Post Office, but is part of the City of Los Angeles. Along with the Los Angeles communities of Bel-Air and Brentwood, Beverly Hills is one of the "Three Bs",Bozorgmehr, Mehdi, Claudia Der-Martirosian, and Georges Sabagh. "Middle Easterners: A New Kind of Immigrant" (Chapter 12). In: Waldinger, Roger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr (editors). ''Ethnic Los Angeles''.
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a wealthy area in the
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.


Climate

Beverly Hills has a warm
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and receives an average of rain per year. Summers are marked by warm to hot temperatures with very little wind, while winters are mild to moderate, with occasional rain alternating with periods of
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. Measurable snowfall has been recorded only in 1882, 1922, 1932, 1949 and 1958.


Demographics

Beverly Hills first appeared as a city in the
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as part of the now defunct Cahuenga Township.


2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Beverly Hills had a population of 32,701. The population density was . The racial makeup of Beverly Hills was 77.9%
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, 2.1%
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, 0.1% Native American, 8.8% Asian, 0.0%
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, 2.3% from other races, and 8.7% from two or more races.
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of any race were 6.8% of the population. The census reported that 99.7% of the population lived in households, 0.2% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0.2% were institutionalized. There were 14,564 households, out of which 22.2% included children under the age of 18, 41.5% were married-couple households, 4.4% were
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couple households, 35.7% had a female householder with no partner present, and 18.4% had a male householder with no partner present. 37.2% of households were one person, and 14.3% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.24. There were 8,046
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(55.2% of all households). The age distribution was 16.9% under the age of 18, 8.0% aged 18 to 24, 24.5% aged 25 to 44, 27.1% aged 45 to 64, and 23.5% who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 45.5years. For every 100 females, there were 85.0 males. There were 16,242 housing units at an average density of , of which 14,564 (89.7%) were occupied. Of these, 42.0% were owner-occupied, and 58.0% were occupied by renters. During 2019–2023, Beverly Hills had a median household income of $127,979, with 9.0% of the population living below the federal poverty line.


2010

The 2010 United States census reported that Beverly Hills had a population of 34,109. The population density was . The racial makeup of Beverly Hills was 28,112 (82.4%)
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(78.6% Non-Hispanic White), 746 (2.2%)
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, 48 (0.1%) Native American, 3,032 (8.9%) Asian, 12 (0.0%)
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, 485 (1.4%) from other races, and 1,674 (4.9%) from two or more races. There were 1,941 residents of
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or Latino ancestry, of any race (5.7%). The Census reported that 33,988 people (99.6% of the population) lived in households, 121 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 14,869 households, out of which 3,759 (25.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 6,613 (44.5%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,354 (9.1%) had a female householder with no husband present, 494 (3.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 460 (3.1%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 131 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 5,400 households (36.3%) were made up of individuals, and 1,834 (12.3%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29. There were 8,461
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(56.9% of all households); the average family size was 3.05. There were 6,623 residents (19.4%) under the age of 18, 2,526 (7.4%) aged 18 to 24, 8,540 (25.0%) aged 25 to 44, 9,904 (29.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 6,516 (19.1%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 84.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.3 males. There were 16,394 housing units at an average density of , of which 6,561 (44.1%) were owner-occupied, and 8,308 (55.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.0%. 17,740 people (52.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 16,248 people (47.6%) lived in rental housing units. During 2009–2013, Beverly Hills had a median household income of $86,141, with 8.8% of the population living below the federal poverty line.


Economy

Beverly Hills is home to one
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company,
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. Since August 22, 2011, the headquarters of
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have been located in Beverly Hills after a significant film history established close by on the main original studio lots in
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. The talent agencies
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,
Paradigm Talent Agency Paradigm Talent Agency is an American full-service entertainment agency with offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Chicago, Toronto, Monterey, Nashville, Berkeley and Austin. Paradigm Talent Agency has more than 200 agents representing clie ...
,
The Gersh Agency Gersh (also known as The Gersh Agency) is an international entertainment and sports agency headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, New York City, and Madrid, with offices and representatives in 14 countries. Established in 1949 by Phil Gers ...
,
United Talent Agency United Talent Agency (UTA) is a global talent agency based in Beverly Hills, California. Established in 1991, it represents artists and other professionals across the entertainment industry. , the company has more than 1,400 global employees. ...
, and
Agency for the Performing Arts IAG (also known as Independent Artist Group) is a talent agency in the entertainment industry with headquarters in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Atlanta, Toronto, and London. the company represented actors, writers, producers, showrunners, d ...
are based in Beverly Hills.
Hilton Hotels Corporation Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is an American multinational hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels, resorts, and timeshare properties. Founded by Conrad Hilton in May 1919, the company is now led by Christ ...
formerly had its corporate headquarters in Beverly Hills. The original headquarters of
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(at first Beverly Hills Internet) was at 9401 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The large Beverly Hills Oil Field has four urban drilling islands, which drill diagonally into the earth underneath the city. One drilling island occasioned a 2003 lawsuit representing former attendees of Beverly Hills High School, approximately 280 of which having suffered from cancers allegedly tied to the drilling operations. The oil site on the high school grounds is in the process of being shut down.


Top employers in 2015

According to the city's 2015 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were:


Government


Municipal government

Beverly Hills is a
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governed by a five-member
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, including the
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and vice mayor. The city council hires a
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to carry out policies and serve as executive officer. Until 2017, every odd-numbered year, either two or three members were elected for four-year terms. However, in 2017, the council changed its cycle to conform with statewide elections; the first such election was held in March 2020. Each April, the city council meets and chooses one of its members as mayor and one as vice-mayor. As of April 2025, Sharona R. Nazarian is mayor,
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is vice mayor, and Lester Friedman, Craig Corman, and Mary Wells are councilmembers. Nancy Hunt-Coffey serves as city manager.


County, state and federal representation

On the
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, Beverly Hills is in the Third District, represented by
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. In the upper house of the
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, Beverly Hills is in . In the lower house, it is in . In the
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, Beverly Hills is in .


New and existing laws

On January 1, 2022, Beverly Hills became the first city in America to ban the sale of all tobacco products. Smoking lounges and hotels are exempt from the new law. The city council passed the law in June 2021. Flavored tobacco was already banned.


Politics

In the 2024 Los Angeles County District Attorney election, a significant majority of Beverly Hills voters, 73.51% (13,126 votes), voted for
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, whereas only 17.17% (3,077 votes) backed
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. In the 2024 Election for California's 36th congressional district, 44.67% (7,978 voters) of Beverly Hills backed Melissa Toomim, whereas 43.71% (7,806 voters) of the city voted for the incumbent,
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.


Education

Beverly Hills is served by
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, which includes two kindergarten-through-fifth-grade schools (Hawthorne and Horace Mann), one middle school (Beverly Vista) and
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. One alternative school, Moreno High School, shares its campus with the aforementioned Beverly Hills High School. Beverly Hills also has several private schools. Good Shepherd School, a PreK-8 school, is a part of the
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. Other private schools include Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy.


Infrastructure

The
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and the Beverly Hills Fire Department serve as emergency response agencies for the city. The
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SPA 5 West Area Health Office serves Beverly Hills. The department operates the Simms/Mann Health and Wellness Center in
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, serving Beverly Hills. The
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operates the Beverly Hills Post Office at 325 North Maple Drive, the Crescent Post Office at 323 North Crescent Drive, the Beverly Post Office at 312 South Beverly Drive, and the Eastgate Post Office at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard. The former Beverly Hills Post Office was listed on the
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on January 11, 1985.


Autonomous vehicles

In April 2016, the Beverly Hills City Council passed a resolution to create autonomous vehicles for public transportation within the next decade. Mayor John Mirisch said this was one of his top priorities during his tenure as mayor. "This is a game-changer for Beverly Hills and, we hope, for the region," said Mirisch in the press release. "Beverly Hills is the perfect community to take the lead to make this technology a reality. It is now both feasible and safe for autonomous cars to be on the road."


Media

Beverly Hills is served by free weekly newspapers ''
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'' and ''
Beverly Hills Weekly ''Beverly Hills Weekly'' is the free weekly tabloid-sized newspaper serving Beverly Hills, CA. It was founded on October 7, 1999 by Publisher Josh E. Gross, a Beverly Hills native who is the son of the late television writer Jack Gross Jr., a ...
''. The BHUSD has a
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station called KBEV, which is run by the students of
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.


Landmarks

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Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden The Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden is a memorial space in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks in Beverly Hills, California at the corner of North Rexford Drive and South Santa Monica Boulevard/Burton Way. Dedicated on September 1 ...
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Beverly Hills High School Beverly Hills High School (shortly as BHHS or Beverly) is a public high school in Beverly Hills, California. The other public high school in Beverly Hills is Moreno High School, a small alternative school located on Beverly Hills High School's c ...
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Beverly Hills Hotel The Beverly Hills Hotel, also called the Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, is located on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. One of the world's best-known hotels, it is closely associated with Hollywood film stars, rock stars, and ...
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Beverly Hills Police Department The Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) is the police department of the City of Beverly Hills, California. History The first law enforcement agency was formed shortly after the City of Beverly Hills was municipal corporation, incorporated i ...
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Beverly Hills Public Library The Beverly Hills Public Library (abbreviated BHPL) is a public library in Beverly Hills, California. Location The library is located next door to the BHPD headquarters, opposite the Beverly Hills Fire Department, and near the Beverly Hills Cit ...
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Beverly Hills Women's Club The Beverly Hills Women's Club is an historic clubhouse and social club in Beverly Hills, California.Caroline M. RomanBeverly Hills Women's Club Holiday Tea with Tiffany & Co. ''The Huffington Post'', January 05, 2011Marc Wanamaker, ''Early Beverl ...
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Beverly Wilshire Hotel The Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, commonly known as the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, is a historic luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Located at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive, it was completed in 1928. It ha ...
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Electric Fountain The Electric Fountain is a water fountain with public art sculptures and evening lighting, surrounded by mosaic pavement, seating, and landscaping. It is located in Beverly Gardens Park on the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards in ...
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Greystone Mansion The Greystone Mansion, also known as the Doheny Mansion, is a Tudor Revival architecture, Tudor Revival mansion on a landscaped estate with distinctive formal English gardens, located in Trousdale Estates of Beverly Hills, California, United Sta ...
* Greenacres *
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Pickfair Pickfair is a mansion and estate in the city of Beverly Hills, California. The original Pickfair was an estate designed by architect Horatio Cogswell for attorney Lee Allen Phillips of Berkeley Square as a country home. Phillips sold the pro ...
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Rodeo Drive Rodeo Drive () is a street in Beverly Hills, California, with its southern segment in the City of Los Angeles, known as one of the most expensive streets in the world. Its southern terminus is at Beverwil Drive, and its northern terminus is a ...
* Roxbury Memorial Park * Virginia Robinson Gardens *
Will Rogers Memorial Park The Will Rogers Memorial Park is a public park in Beverly Hills, California. Location Shaped like a triangle, the park is surrounded by West Sunset Boulevard, North Canon Drive and North Beverly Drive.Sue McAllister ''The Los Angeles Times'', A ...


Notable people


In popular culture

Beverly Hills frequently appears in popular culture as a place of conspicuous wealth or luxury, although the actual demographics of the city are more complex. In some films, such as 1990's ''
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'', substantial filming took place in the city; in many others, however, such as ''
Beverly Hills Cop ''Beverly Hills Cop'' is a 1984 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Martin Brest, with a screenplay by Daniel Petrie Jr., and story by Danilo Bach and Daniel Petrie Jr. It stars Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street-smart Det ...
'' (1984), little is shown besides establishing shots of landmarks such as the Beverly Hills Hotel and Rodeo Drive. In television, the scene in the opening credits of ''
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'' (1960–1968), in which Sheriff Taylor and Opie carry fishing poles past a pond, was shot at the Franklin Canyon Reservoir north of the city, just west of Coldwater Canyon. The CBS sitcom ''
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'' (1962–1971) followed a hillbilly family who relocate to Beverly Hills from the
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. The city also features in the name of the 1990s soap opera ''
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'', revolving around the lives of teenagers attending the fictional West Beverly Hills High School. ''
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ''The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'' (abbreviated as ''RHOBH'') is an American reality television series which has been broadcast on Bravo since October 14, 2010. Developed as the sixth installment of '' The Real Housewives'' franchise, i ...
'' is a reality television franchise.


Sister cities

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Acapulco Acapulco de Juárez (), commonly called Acapulco ( , ; ), is a city and Port of Acapulco, major seaport in the Political divisions of Mexico, state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Located on a deep, semicirc ...
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Cannes Cannes (, ; , ; ) is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a communes of France, commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions Internatio ...
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Herzliya Herzliya ( ; , / ) is an affluent List of Israeli cities, city in the Israeli coastal plain, central coast of Israel, at the northern part of the Tel Aviv District, known for its robust start-up and entrepreneurial culture. In it had a populatio ...
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Pudong Pudong is a list of administrative divisions of Shanghai, district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu River, Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank (g ...
, China


See also

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List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area This List of largest houses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area includes 17 single-family residences that are known to equal or exceed of livable space within the main house. The official square footage of the largest houses in Los Angeles, Cali ...


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Bibliography

*''Beverly Hills: 1930–2005'' by Marc Wanamaker *''Beverly Hills: An Illustrated History'' by Genevieve Davis *''Beverly Hills: Inside the Golden Ghetto'' by Walter Wagner Published 1976 *''History of Beverly Hills'' by Pierce E. Benedict. Published 1934.


External links

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Beverly Hills City photographsBeverly Hills article at ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''Beverly Hills profile
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