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Arlington Heights, Los Angeles

Arlington Heights
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Boundaries of Arlington Heights as drawn by the Los Angeles Times
Boundaries of Arlington Heights as drawn by the Los Angeles Times
Arlington Heights is located in Los Angeles
Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights
Location in Central Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°02′32″N 118°19′08″W / 34.04222°N 118.31889°W / 34.04222; -118.31889Coordinates: 34°02′32″N 118°19′08″W / 34.04222°N 118.31889°W / 34.04222; -118.31889
Country United States
State California
City Los Angeles

Arlington Heights is a densely populated, highly diverse neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, where most people live in rented homes or apartments. Within it lies the Historic Preservation Overlay Zone of Country Club Park. There are a technology center for adults, two middle schools, three other schools and a public library.

Arlington Heights is flanked by Koreatown to the north, Harvard Heights to the east, Jefferson Park to the south and Mid-City to the west. The neighborhood is bounded on the north by Olympic Boulevard, on the east by Gramercy Place, on the south by the Santa Monica Freeway and on the west by Crenshaw Boulevard.

Country Club Park is a historic residential area in the northwestern section of Arlington Heights, bounded by Olympic Boulevard, Crenshaw Boulevard, Pico Boulevard, and Western Avenue. It is also a designated Los Angeles Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, with a large number of buildings dating to the earliest phases of Los Angeles’ development westwards in the 1900s to 1930s.

Relation of Arlington Heights to other communities:

The 2000 U.S. census counted 22,096 residents in the 1.03-square-mile neighborhood—an average of 21,423 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 23,330. The median age for residents was 31, about average for both the city and the county.


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