Los Angeles County, California Los Angeles County, California County of Los Angeles Images, from top down, left to right: Downtown Los Angeles in December 2007, Venice, Los Angeles amid sunset, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, CA, Satellite picture of Santa Catalina Island, the Santa Monica Pier, Angeles National Forest, Vasquez Rocks, Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve Flag of Los Angeles County, California Flag Official seal of Los Angeles County, California Location of the county in California Location of the county in California Metro region Greater Los Angeles Area Named for City of Los Angeles County seat Los Angeles Largest town/city Los Angeles Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most crowded county in the United States.
The county is home to more than one-quarter of California inhabitants and is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S. Its county seat, the City of Los Angeles, is also its most crowded city at about four million.
See also: History of Los Angeles Los Angeles County is one of the initial counties of California, created at the time of statehood in 1850. The county originally encompassed parts of what are now Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange counties.
As the populace increased, sections were split off to organize San Bernardino County in 1853, Kern County in 1866, and Orange County in 1889.
Los Angeles and adjoining counties Enumeration Bureau, the county has an region of 4,751 square miles (12,310 km2), of which 4,058 square miles (10,510 km2) is territory and 693 square miles (1,790 km2) (15%) is water. Los Angeles County borders 70 miles (110 km) of coast on the Pacific Ocean and encompasses mountain peaks, valleys, forests, islands, lakes, rivers, and desert.
The Los Angeles River, Rio Hondo, the San Gabriel River and the Santa Clara River flow in Los Angeles County, while the major mountain peaks are the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains.
Most of the populace of Los Angeles County is positioned in the south and southwest, with primary population centers in the Los Angeles Basin, San Fernando Valley and San Gabriel Valley.
The county is divided west-to-east by the San Gabriel Mountains, which are part of the Transverse Ranges of southern California, and are contained mostly inside the Angeles National Forest.
Most of the county's highest peaks are in the San Gabriel Mountains, including Mount San Antonio 10,068 feet (3,069 m)) at the Los Angeles-San Bernardino county lines, Mount Baden-Powell 9,399 feet (2,865 m), Mount Burnham 8,997 feet (2,742 m) and Mount Wilson 5,710 feet (1,740 m).
Several lower mountain peaks are in the northern, western, and southwestern parts of the county, including the San Emigdio Mountains, the southernmost part of Tehachapi Mountains and the Sierra Pelona Mountains.
Los Angeles County includes San Clemente Island and Santa Catalina Island, which are part of the Channel Islands archipelago off the Pacific Coast.
South: South Bay, South Los Angeles, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Gateway Cities, Los Angeles Harbor Region North: San Fernando Valley, Crescenta Valley, portions of the Conejo Valley, portions of the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita Valley Central: Downtown Los Angeles, Mid-Wilshire, Northeast Los Angeles Angeles National Forest (part) Los Padres National Forest (part) Main article: Demographics of Los Angeles County Los Angeles County had a populace of 9,818,605 in the 2010 United States Census.
The ethnic makeup of Los Angeles County was 4,936,599 (50%) White, 1,346,865 (13.7%) Asian, 856,874 (9%) African American, 72,828 (0.7%) Native American, 26,094 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 2,140,632 (21.8%) from other competitions, and 438,713 (4.5%) from two or more competitions.
Non-Hispanic caucasians numbered 2,728,321, or 28% of the population. Hispanic or Latino inhabitants of any race numbered 4,687,889 (48%); 36% of Los Angeles County's populace was of Mexican ancestry; 3.7% Salvadoran, and 2.2% Guatemalan heritage. The county has a large populace of Asians, being home to the biggest concentration of immigrants who are Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, and Thai in the world. The biggest Asian groups of the 1,346,865 (13.7%) Asians in Los Angeles County are 4.0% Chinese, 3.3% Filipino, 2.2% Korean, 1.0% Japanese, 0.9% Vietnamese, 0.8% Indian, and 0.3% Cambodian.
The ethnic makeup of the county is 48.7% White, 11.0% African American, 0.8% Native American, 10.0% Asian, 0.3% Pacific Islander, 23.5% from other competitions, and 4.9% from two or more competitions.
The county has the biggest Native American populace of any county in the nation: as stated to the 2000 census, it has more than 153,550 citizens of indigenous descent, and most are from Latin America.
As estimated by the Public Policy Institute of California in 2008, Los Angeles County is home to more than one-third of California's illegal immigrants, who make up more than ten percent of the population. Map of Los Angeles County showing populace density in 2000 by census tract In the county, the populace was spread out with 28% under the age of 18, 10% from 18 to 24, 33% from 25 to 44, 19% from 45 to 64, and 10% who were 65 years of age or older.
Percent of homeholds with incomes above $150k athwart LA County census tracts.
Los Angeles County has the highest number of millionaires of any county in the nation, totaling 261,081 homeholds as of 2007. Los Angeles County has the biggest number of homeless citizens , with "48,000 citizens living on the streets, including 6,000 veterans." In 2000, there were hundreds of Christian churches, 202 Jewish Jewish churchs, 145 Buddhist temples, 48 Muslim masjids, 44 Bahai worship centers, 37 Hindu mandirs, 28 Tenrikyo churches and fellowships, 16 Shinto worship centers, and 14 Sikh gurdwaras in the county. The Los Angeles Archdiocese has approximately 5 million members and is the biggest in the United States.
Main article: Government of Los Angeles County The Government of Los Angeles County is defined and authorized under the California Constitution, California law and the Charter of the County of Los Angeles. Much of the Government of California is in practice the responsibility of small-town governments such as the Government of Los Angeles County.
The county's voters elect a governing five-member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
As of 2008, the Board of Supervisors oversees a $22.5 billion annual budget and approximately 100,000 employees. The county government is managed on a day-to-day basis by a Chief Executive Officer and is organized into many departments, each of which is enormous in comparison to equivalent county-level (and even many state-level) departments anywhere else in the United States.
Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs offers consumers in the county a range of services including: consumer and real estate counseling, mediation, and small claims counseling investigates consumer complains, real estate fraud and identity theft issues.
Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services administers foster care Los Angeles County Fire Department provides firefighting services for the unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates a several county hospitals and a network of major care clinics, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health - administers enhance health programs including STD programs, smoking cessation, and restaurant inspection.
Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services administers many federal and state welfare programs Los Angeles County Department of Public Works operates countywide flood control system, constructs and maintains roads in unincorporated areas Los Angeles County District Attorney prosecutes criminal suspects.
Los Angeles County Office of the Public Defender Defends indigent citizens accused of criminal offenses.
Los Angeles County Probation Department Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department provides law enforcement services for the unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 42 cities.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, despite its name, is not a County department.
Main article: Politics of Los Angeles County Los Angeles County vote Los Angeles County has voted for the Democratic candidate in most of the presidential elections in the past four decades, and has gone Democratic in every election since 1988.
In the United States House of Representatives, Los Angeles County is split between 18 congressional districts: In the California State Senate, Los Angeles County is split between 15 legislative districts: In the California State Assembly, Los Angeles County is split between 24 legislative districts: On November 4, 2008, Los Angeles County was almost evenly split over Proposition 8 which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages.
Further information: Superior Court of Los Angeles County The Los Angeles Superior Court, has jurisdiction over all cases arising under state law, while the U.S.
Historically, the courthouses were county-owned buildings that were maintained at county cost, which created momentous friction since the trial court judges, as officials of the state government, had to lobby the county Board of Supervisors for facility renovations and upgrades.
In turn, the state judiciary successfully persuaded the state Legislature to authorize the transfer of all courthouses to the state government in 2008 and 2009 (so that judges would have direct control over their own courthouses).
Courthouse security is still provided by the county government under a contract with the state.
Unlike the biggest city in the United States, New York City, all of the town/city of Los Angeles and most of its meaningful suburbs are positioned inside a single county.
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State cases are appealed to the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, which is also headquartered in the Civic Center, and then to the California Supreme Court, which is headquartered in San Francisco but also hears argument in Los Angeles (again, in the Civic Center).
See also: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Los Angeles County is generally associated with the entertainment and digital media industry; all six primary film studios Paramount Pictures, 21st Century Fox, Sony, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios are positioned inside the county.
Numerous other primary industries also define the economy of Los Angeles County, including global trade supported by the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, music recording and production, aerospace and defense, fashion, and experienced services such as law, medicine, engineering and design services, financial services and more.
High-tech zone employment inside Los Angeles County is 368,500 workers, and manufacturing employment inside Los Angeles County is 365,000 workers. The following primary companies have command posts in Los Angeles County: Los Angeles The Los Angeles County Office of Education provides a supporting part for school districts in the area.
The county office also operates two magnet schools, the International Polytechnic High School and Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles (AICALA), Santa Monica De - Vry University, Long Beach and West Hills (Los Angeles) East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles ITT Technical Institute, Culver City, San Dimas, Sylmar (Los Angeles), Torrance, and West Covina Long Beach City College, Long Beach Los Angeles City College (LACC), Los Angeles Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music, Pasadena Los Angeles Pierce College (Pierce), Woodland Hills Los Angeles Southwest College, Los Angeles Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATTC), Los Angeles Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen (Los Angeles) Mary's College, Los Angeles Occidental College (Oxy), Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester (Los Angeles) West Los Angeles College, Culver City Abraham Lincoln University (ALU), Los Angeles American Jewish University (AJULA), Los Angeles California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, (Cal Poly Pomona), Pomona California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), Carson California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Long Beach California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), Los Angeles California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Northridge (Los Angeles) Drew University of Medicine and Science (Los Angeles) Loyola Law School, (Downtown Los Angeles) Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Westchester (Los Angeles) National University, Los Angeles and Woodland Hills Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood (Los Angeles) University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles Photo of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art amid its 2005 Ancient Egypt exhibit.
The county's most visited park is Griffith Park, owned by the town/city of Los Angeles.
The county is also known for the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, the annual Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Zoo, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the La Brea Tar Pits, the Arboretum of Los Angeles, and two horse racetracks and two car racetracks (Pomona Raceway and Irwindale Speedway), also the RMS Queen Mary positioned in Long Beach, and the Long Beach Grand Prix, and miles of beaches from Zuma to Cabrillo.
Many county inhabitants find relaxation in water skiing and swimming at Castaic Lake Recreation Area the county's biggest park by region as well as appreciateing natural surroundings and starry evenings at Saddleback Butte State Park in the easterly Antelope Valley California State Parks' biggest in region inside the county.
The California Poppy Reserve is positioned in the Antelope Valley and shows off the State's flower in great quantity on its rolling hills every spring.
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LAX is directed by Los Angeles World Airports, an agency of the City of Los Angeles.
Other meaningful commercial airports in Los Angeles County include: Long Beach Municipal Airport directed by the City of Long Beach The following general aviation airports also are positioned in Los Angeles County: County directed airports (Department of Public Works, Aviation Division) Besides the non-flying Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, the U.S.
Air Force has two airports in Los Angeles County: Los Angeles is a primary freight barns transit center, largely due to the large volumes of freight moving in and out of the county's port facilities.
Passenger rail service is provided in the county by Amtrak, Los Angeles Metro Rail and Metrolink.
Amtrak has the following intercity Amtrak service at Union Station in the town/city of Los Angeles.
Union Station is also the major hub for Metrolink commuter rail, which serves much of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Light rail, subway (heavy rail), and long-distance bus service are all provided by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro).
The county's two chief seaports are the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach.
The Port of Los Angeles is the biggest cruise ship center on the West Coast, handling more than 1 million passengers annually.
Main article: List of metros/cities in Los Angeles County, California There are 88 incorporated metros/cities in Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles 3,792,621 East Los Angeles Lake Los Angeles See: Los Angeles Almanac MAP: Unincorporated Areas and Communities of Los Angeles County See also: List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles The populace ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of Los Angeles County. ' 1 ' Los Angeles City 3,792,621 10 East Los Angeles CDP 126,496 52 Culver City City 38,883 55 Temple City City 35,558 99 Lake Los Angeles CDP 12,328 138 Santa Susana (mostly in Ventura County) CDP 1,037 Greater Los Angeles portal List of exhibitions in Los Angeles List of exhibitions in Los Angeles County, California List of school districts in Los Angeles County, California List of schools in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California California State Association of Counties.
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