University Park, Los Angeles

University Park is a 1.17-square-mile low-income neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. It is the home of the University of Southern California (USC). It's also notable for its dense concentration of residents, their youthful age range, their high ratio of single to married parents, their low rate of marriage and their low median household income. It is one of the most ethnically diverse areas in Los Angeles.

The neighborhood has two other institutions of higher learning – Mount St. Mary's College and Hebrew Union College. There are also nine primary and secondary schools, including one high school. The neighborhood is the home of the historic Shrine Auditorium.

University Park is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with a diversity index of 0.676. "The diversity index measures the probability that any two residents, chosen at random, would be of different ethnicities. If all residents are of the same ethnic group it's zero. If half are from one group and half from another it's .50."

Latinos made up 47.7% of the population, with white people at 25.5%, Asians at 16.1%, black people at 7%, and others at 3.8%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 42.4% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city as a whole.

A total of 23,596 people lived in University Park's 1.17 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 20,217 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in the city as a whole. Population was estimated at 25,181 in 2008. The median age was 23, considered young when compared to the city as a whole. The percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest.

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