Jefferson Park, Los Angeles
| Jefferson Park | |
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| Neighborhood of Los Angeles | |
Jefferson Park neighborhood marker
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 Jefferson Park boundaries as outlined by the Los Angeles Times |
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| Coordinates: 34°01′38″N 118°19′00″W / 34.02722°N 118.31667°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Time zone | PST (UTC-8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC-7) |
| Zip Code | 90018 |
| Area code(s) | 323 |
Jefferson Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South region. With 24,285 residents, Jefferson Park has a population density which is among the highest in Los Angeles County.The area is known for its old opulent homes and mansions. It is also the home neighborhood for J. P. Widney High School.
With development commencing around the turn of the 20th century, Jefferson Park began as one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods. On the hills rising west of Western Avenue, wealthy white Angelenos built fine Edwardian, Craftsman, and Art Deco mansions, with churches and commercial buildings of commensurate expense. In 1903 there were streetcars running down Jefferson and Adams Boulevard. Some wealthy blacks moved into the area as well, leading the neighborhood to be dubbed "Sugar Hill" by many African-Americans of the day. To the south, in the flatter areas along Jefferson Boulevard, a low-rise commercial corridor developed, with small single-story homes and low-rise apartment buildings in the blocks behind. After the 1948 Supreme Court ruling that banned segregationist covenants on property, most of Jefferson Park's white population decamped to other parts of the region, in turn being replaced by upper-middle and upper-class blacks whose descendants still reside in many of the district's spectacular homes.
Jefferson Park contains within it a smaller neighborhood called West Adams Terrace.
A total of 23,130 people lived in the neighborhood's 1.42 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 16,300 people per square mile, among the highest population density in the city as a whole. The median age was 31, about the same as the rest of the city.
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