Historic South Central

Historic South Central Los Angeles is a 2.25-square-mile district in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. The 2000 census found that its population is younger than the city's average, and its median household level is low compared with the city as a whole. It is the site of Los Angeles Trade–Technical College, the Santee Education Complex, Animo Jackie Robinson High School, Wallace Annenberg High School, Frida Kahlo High School, and Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Magnet High School, as well as the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall.

Historic South Central is second on the list of Los Angeles city neighborhoods where adults over age 25 failed to finish high school—74.2%.

Historic South Central flanks Downtown Los Angeles on the northeast, Central-Alameda on the east, South Park on the south, and Vermont Square, Exposition Park and University Park on the west. It is bounded by Washington Boulevard on the north, Central Avenue on the east, East Vernon Avenue on the south and the Harbor Freeway on the west.

Relation of South Central to other communities:

A total of 49,728 people lived in the neighborhood's 2.55 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 19,474 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in both the city and the county.

The median age was 23, considered young for the city and the county, and the percentages of residents aged birth through 34 was among the county's highest.

Within the neighborhood, Latinos made up 87.2% of the population, with black people at 10.1%, white 1.2%; Asian 1.0% and other 0.6%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 56.3% of the residents who were born abroad, considered a high percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.

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