Central-Alameda, Los Angeles

Central-Alameda is a 84.6% Latino, low-income, youthful neighborhood of the South Los Angeles, California, region lies just south of Downtown Los Angeles and west of Huntington Park. Its 43,000+ residents make one of the highest-population-density neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles and one of the densest in Los Angeles County. Its average household size is considered high when compared with the city and the county as a whole.

Central-Alameda tops the list of Los Angeles city neighborhoods where adults over age 25 failed to finish high school—75%.

Central-Alameda, which measure 2.18 square miles, is bounded on the north and northeast by Downtown, on the east by the city of Vernon, on the south by Huntington Park and Florence-Firestone, and on the west by Historic South Central and South Park. The street boundaries are north, Washington Boulevard; south, Slauson Avenue; west, Central Avenue, and east, Alameda Street. Central-Alameda encompasses the area of the neighborhood traditionally known as Nevin.

Relation of Central-Alameda to other communities, not necessarily contiguous:

According to the U.S. census, the neighborhood's population in 2000 was 40,947, which amounted to 18,760 people per square mile, among the highest densities for the city of Los Angeles and among the highest densities for the county. In 2008 the L.A. Department of City Planning estimated the population at 43,638. The average household size was 4.3 people, considered high for both the city and the county. Renters occupied 70.2% of the housing units and owners inhabited the rest, 29.8%.

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