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• Agoura HillsThe first housing tracts in Agoura Hills were Hillrise, Liberty Canyon and Lake Lindero, and much more land was subdivided into tracts in the 1980s.
• AlhambraAlhambra mixes Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Colonial Revival homes with many condominiums and rental apartments, especially downtown.
• ArcadiaArcadia grew into a suburb after World War II, when many of its chicken ranches were subdivided into home lots.
• Beverly GroveThe Los Angeles Conservancy describes Beverly Grove as built mainly in the 1920s.
• BeverlywoodBeverlywood, laid out in 1940 by Walter H. Leimert, has 1,354 single-family homes governed by binding covenants on size, style and color.
• BradburyBradbury, incorporated in 1957, keeps much of Bradbury Estates and Woodlyn Lane zoned for horses.
• BurbankBy 1937 Burbank was carrying power from Hoover Dam over its own electric lines, and its city-owned utility now serves about 45,000 households.
• Canoga ParkCanoga Park began as Owensmouth, a town founded in 1912 on subdivided wheat farms.
• CarthayThree separate historic overlay zones, for Carthay Circle, South Carthay and Carthay Square, cover this half-square-mile district.
• Century CityCentury City is a single census tract, where the 2000 count found 2,428 residents in 1,812 housing units, about 1.34 people per household.
• ChatsworthAt about 2,301 people per square mile in the 2000 census, Chatsworth was among the most thinly settled neighborhoods of both the city and the county.
• Cheviot HillsHouses west of Motor Avenue in Cheviot Hills date from the 1920s, while the part built on the old California Country Club dates from the early 1950s.
• Culver CityHarry Culver incorporated Culver City in 1917, and within a decade it had become a center of film production.
• Del ReyRenters occupy about 71 percent of Del Rey's housing stock, up from about 55 percent in 2008.
• Echo ParkThe 2000 census found about 16,868 people per square mile in Echo Park, one of the highest densities in Los Angeles.
• El SegundoEl Segundo sits beside the El Segundo power plant, which came online in 2013 and is operated by NRG.
• EncinoWith about 4,411 people per square mile at the 2000 census, Encino ranked among the least densely settled parts of the city.
• FairfaxIn 2019 Los Angeles designated the blocks of still-standing 1920s apartment houses east of Fairfax Avenue and north of Beverly Boulevard as a historic district.
• GlendaleGlendale's Grayson Power Plant went into service in 1941 and gave the city its own energy supply.
• Granada HillsJoseph Eichler built the Balboa Highlands tract in Granada Hills, a neighborhood made up mostly of mid-century modern houses.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa Beach packs about 10,000 housing units at roughly 7,000 per square mile, and renters occupy a little over half of them.
• Hidden HillsHidden Hills is a gated city with 635 housing units at the 2020 census, about 90 percent of the occupied ones lived in by their owners.
• HollywoodThe HOLLYWOODLAND sign went up in the hills in 1923 to advertise a housing development, and LAND came off after the city took over its repair in 1949.
• Hollywood / Central LAAbout 81 percent of the people in Central Los Angeles live in rental units, with the other 19 percent in owner-occupied homes.
• Hollywood HillsThe Hollywood Hills neighborhood is bounded on the east by a fire road through Griffith Park and on the south by Franklin Avenue.
• Hollywood Hills WestHomeowners occupy about 63.6 percent of the housing units in Hollywood Hills West, which reaches from Studio City down to West Hollywood.
• KoreatownKorean immigrants arriving in larger numbers in the 1960s found housing in the Mid-Wilshire area, and renters now occupy about 93 percent of Koreatown's housing units.
• La Cañada FlintridgeLa Cañada Flintridge climbs to 3,440 feet along Mount Lukens Road, well above its developed neighborhoods.
• Lake BalboaLake Balboa, once part of Van Nuys, has about 66 percent of its housing stock held by house or apartment owners.
• Larchmont VillageLarchmont Village, a half-square-mile neighborhood of central Los Angeles, was first developed in the late 1800s.
• Laurel CanyonMost side roads off Laurel Canyon are not through streets, which keeps the mountainous neighborhood self-contained.
• Los FelizThe Los Feliz Heights Residential Historic District is noted for Period Revival houses built between 1920 and 1949.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsNearly all of the Santa Monica Mountains fall inside a national recreation area that ranks among the most visited natural areas in California.
• Mar VistaMar Vista saw its biggest growth from the 1950s through the 1970s, which left many mid-century modern houses along Beethoven, Meier and Moore streets.
• Marina del ReyThe Admiralty High-Rise, about 800 condominiums on 20 floors, can house close to 30 percent of Marina del Rey's population, though it stands just inside the City of Los Angeles.
• Mid-WilshirePark La Brea, with 4,255 units in eighteen 13-story towers and 31 two-story garden buildings, is called the largest housing development in the United States.
• Miracle MileMiracle Mile holds two Historic Preservation Overlay Zones, the Miracle Mile HPOZ and the Miracle Mile North HPOZ.
• MonroviaMonrovia, incorporated in 1887, issued a record number of building permits in 1923.
• Mount OlympusMount Olympus is a 300-acre Hollywood Hills neighborhood, counted as a subdistrict of Laurel Canyon and known for upscale houses and wide streets.
• Nichols CanyonIn August 2005 a brush fire above Hollywood Boulevard threatened between forty and sixty Nichols Canyon homes before firefighters stopped it.
• North HollywoodNorth Hollywood was laid out in 1887 by the Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company, and renters now occupy about 75 percent of its housing stock.
• NorthridgeThe 1994 earthquake named for Northridge was later placed in neighboring Reseda, and the area had already been shaken by the 1971 San Fernando earthquake.
• PalmsVery few of the original houses in Palms survive, and many that do share their lots with newer units built on what were backyards.
• Pico-RobertsonThe 2000 census counted about 17,468 people per square mile in Pico-Robertson, among the highest densities in the city.
• Playa del ReyMost Playa del Rey residents live in the densely built eastern part of the neighborhood, among apartment and condominium complexes rather than ocean-view estates.
• Playa VistaPlaya Vista was built on the site of Howard Hughes's 1940s airfield and aircraft plant, where the Spruce Goose was assembled.
• Porter RanchPorter Ranch started as a housing tract in Northridge, and its new-home projects of the 1990s and 2000s included the Renaissance Summit development.
• Rancho Palos VerdesRancho Palos Verdes is a coastal city known for its nature preserve trails, its school district and its high property values.
• Rancho ParkSpanish Colonial bungalows and ranch houses from Rancho Park's start as a 1920s middle-class district still make up most of its homes.
• Redondo BeachHalf of Redondo Beach's housing dates from 1973 or later, going by the median year built in 2020–2024 Census estimates.
• ResedaReseda's big ranches were subdivided for single-family houses in the mid- to late 1940s as World War II veterans came home.
• Rolling HillsRolling Hills homes are single-story, in California ranch or Spanish hacienda styles, on multi-acre lots in a city with no traffic lights.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates, incorporated in 1957 on land that was once part of Rancho San Pedro, is laced with horse paths.
• San Fernando ValleyMost utilities in the San Fernando Valley are run by municipal governments, chiefly the cities of Los Angeles and Burbank, with only two private companies supplying gas and electricity.
• San GabrielOnly about one San Gabriel home in five heats mainly with electricity, while utility gas heats about 73 percent, in 2020–2024 Census estimates.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe San Gabriel Valley covers about 200 square miles and holds 31 cities and five unincorporated communities.
• SawtelleBetween the 1980 and 1990 censuses, 692 new dwelling units grew Sawtelle's housing stock by 10.6 percent.
• Sherman OaksIn the 1994 Northridge earthquake, nine hillside stilt houses in Sherman Oaks slid down a slope.
• Sierra MadreSierra Madre got its first electric lights from the Edison Electric Company in the same year Red Car service reached the town.
• Silver LakeMuch of Silver Lake was developed in the 1920s and 1930s, and much of its Residential Historic District traces to a single tract from that period.
• South BayThe Metro C Line, opened in 1995 as the Green Line, serves the South Bay from the median of the Century Freeway on its way between Redondo Beach and Norwalk.
• South PasadenaSouth Pasadena became one of the first Los Angeles suburbs once the Pacific Electric Short Line put the whole city within walking distance of a Red Car stop.
• Sunset StripThe Sunset Strip runs 1.7 miles along Sunset Boulevard through West Hollywood, where the Garden of Allah apartments once housed transplanted writers.
• TarzanaEdgar Rice Burroughs bought the land in 1919, named it Tarzana Ranch and later sold it off in parcels for houses and small farms.
• Temple CityTemple City's original townsite, recorded as Tract 6561 in 1923, was carved from part of Lucky Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita.
• Toluca LakeToluca Lake takes its name from a private lake, once fed by springs, whose level is now kept up by community wells.
• TopangaTopanga's 3,758 housing units are spread at fewer than 200 per square mile across the canyon and its surrounding hills.
• TorranceThe original Torrance tract, planned by the Olmsted Brothers, covers 109 city blocks split into residential, commercial and industrial districts.
• Valley GlenValley Glen was formed as a neighborhood of more than 3,000 homes between Hazeltine and Whitsett avenues in the southeastern San Fernando Valley.
• Valley VillageValley Village dates to the 1930s, when workers at nearby film studios built houses there.
• Van NuysVan Nuys joined Los Angeles on May 22, 1915, once the new aqueduct could supply the water its growth required.
• VeniceBetween 2007 and 2022 the number of available housing units in Venice actually fell, despite steep property values and plenty of construction.
• West HillsThe Platt Ranch land in West Hills was not joined to Los Angeles and its water system until 1958 and stayed undeveloped until 1961.
• West HollywoodBefore it incorporated in 1984, West Hollywood spent many decades as an unincorporated pocket in the middle of Los Angeles.
• WestchesterWestchester takes in all of Los Angeles International Airport, and many of its postwar ranch-style houses have been rebuilt into larger two-story homes.
• Westlake VillageWestlake Village was incorporated in 1981 from the Los Angeles County third of the Westlake master-planned community, the rest of which lies in Thousand Oaks.
• WestsideThe Westside is an urban region that combines neighborhoods of the City of Los Angeles with independent cities and unincorporated county land.
• WestwoodWilshire Boulevard through Westwood is lined with condominium towers at its eastern end and Class A office towers toward the west.
• Windsor SquareEarly deed restrictions in Windsor Square set a minimum building cost for every house so that only high-quality residences went up.
• Woodland HillsThe Girard settlement was absorbed into Los Angeles and took the name Woodland Hills in 1945.