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Nevin is a neighborhood in
Nevin is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, California
South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles, south of downtown.
It is defined on Los Angeles c ...
.
Geography
It consists of the area surrounding the street and school of the same name. Broadly construed, the neighborhood is bounded by Washington Boulevard,Alameda Street
Alameda Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles County, California. It is approximately 21 miles in length, running from Harry Bridges Boulevard in Wilmington; and through Carson, Compton, Lynwood, Watts, Florence-Graham, ...
, Vernon Avenue
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and Hooper Avenue.
Nevin is listed as a populated place by the US Geological Survey.
History
The neighborhood, along with Nevin Street and Nevin Street school, were "likely named in memory ofSanta Fe Railway
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway , often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Railroad classes, Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996.
The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight tra ...
manager William G. Nevin".
Nevin Street School opened in 1916.
Demographics
Today the neighborhood isworking-class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most c ...
and industrial in nature; most of the housing stock is apartments or multi-family residential. It is one of the poorest and most densely populated areas of Los Angeles.
It has had a succession of ethnicities as dominant in the area. Whites made up most of the first residents. Though the neighborhood, like the rest of South LA, had a predominantly African-American population from about 1930 into the early 21st century, today the population is primarily Hispanic, with a minority of other ethnicities. Next most populous is the African-American minority.
Education
There is one public school in the neighborhood operated by theLos Angeles Unified School District
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a State school, public school district in Los Angeles County, California, United States of America. It is the largest public school system in California in terms of number of students and the List ...
:
* Nevin Street Elementary - 1569 E. 32nd Street.
Government
Nevin is represented by the Central Alameda Neighborhood Council.See also
* Amoco Junction, Los Angeles *Historic South Central Los Angeles
Historic South Central Los Angeles is a 2.25-square-mile neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. It is the site of the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall.
From the late 1800s to early 1910s, African Americans began re ...
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