Carson, California Carson, California City of Carson Flag of Carson, California Flag Official seal of Carson, California Location of Carson in Los Angeles County, California Location of Carson in Los Angeles County, California Carson, California is positioned in the US Carson, California - Carson, California County Los Angeles Carson is a town/city in Los Angeles County, California.
As of the 2010 census, Carson had a populace of 91,714.
Located 13 miles (21 km) south of downtown Los Angeles and approximately 14 miles away from the Los Angeles International Airport. Incorporated on February 20, 1968, Carson is the youngest municipality in the South Bay region of Metropolitan Los Angeles.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Carson has an region of 19.0 square miles (49 km2).
Carson is bordered by West Compton on the north, Compton on the northeast, Long Beach on the east, Wilmington on the south, and West Carson and Harbor Gateway on the west.
Carson experiences a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csb), similar to that of the Los Angeles Basin with noticeably cooler temperatures amid the summer due to the close-by Pacific Ocean (~6 8 miles).
Rainfall is scarce amid the summer in Carson but receives enough rainfall throughout the year to avoid Koppen's BSh (semi-arid climate).
Carson, like many of the Southern California coastal areas, is subject to a late spring/early summer weather phenomenon called "June Gloom." Carson, California The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Carson had a populace of 91,714.
The ethnic makeup of Carson was 21,864 (23.8%) White (7.7% Non-Hispanic White), 21,856 (23.8%) African American, 518 (0.6%) Native American, 23,522 (25.6%) Asian (20.9% Filipino, 0.8% Japanese, 0.8% Korean, 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Vietnamese, 0.4% Asian Indian, 0.2% Cambodian, 0.1% Pakistani, 0.1% Thai), 2,386 (2.6%) Pacific Islander (2.2% Samoan, 0.2% Guamanian, 0.1% Native Hawaiian), 17,151 (18.7%) from other competitions, and 4,417 (4.8%) from two or more competitions.
There were 25,432 homeholds, out of which 10,980 (43.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 14,178 (55.7%) were married couples living together, 4,787 (18.8%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 1,761 (6.9%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 21,992 citizens (24.0%) under the age of 18, 9,964 citizens (10.9%) aged 18 to 24, 23,105 citizens (25.2%) aged 25 to 44, 24,013 citizens (26.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 12,640 citizens (13.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
68,924 citizens (75.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 21,487 citizens (23.4%) lived in rental housing units.
Carson has the distinct ion of being the only incorporated town/city in the United States where the black populace has a higher median income than the white population. In the California State Legislature, Carson is in the 35th Senate District, represented by Democrat Steven Bradford, and in the 64th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Mike Gipson. In the United States House of Representatives, Carson is in California's 44th congressional district, represented by Democrat Nanette Barragan. Carson is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Compton Unified School District.
High schools serving portions of Carson include Carson High School in Carson, Rancho Dominguez Preparatory School in Long Beach, and Banning High School in the Wilmington region of Los Angeles. The region is inside Board District 8. Although the California Academy of Mathematics and Science is positioned in Carson on the ground of California State University, Dominguez Hills, it is actually a part of the Long Beach Unified School District.
County of Los Angeles Public Library operates the Carson Regional Library and the Dr.
Fire protection in Carson is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department which operates out of Fire Stations 10, 36, 116, 127, and 105. Ambulance transit is provided by Mc - Cormick Ambulance Service Station 17. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) operates the Carson Station in Carson. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Torrance Health Center in Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, near Torrance and serving Carson. The United States Postal Service operates the Carson Post Office at 21350 Avalon Boulevard and the South Bay Pavilion Station in Suite 116 at 20700 Avalon Boulevard. The town/city operates the Carson Circuit bus that serves the small-town improve and joins to other bus and rail transit services including the Los Angeles Metro Blue Line at the Del Amo Station, as well as the North-South Shuttle which joins Carson to the Harbor Gateway Transit Center.
Los Angeles Galaxy Major League Soccer Stub - Hub Center 1995 (2003 in Carson) 5 Los Angeles Chargers National Football League Stub - Hub Center 1960 (2017 in Carson) 1 (AFL Championship) Carson is the site of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH).
In the wake of the 1965 Watts rebellion, it moved to the City of Carson to meet a momentous need for college studies opportunities in the largely black south suburbs of Los Angeles.
The student body does not have a ethnic or ethnic majority. In 1965, Carson was chosen as the home for the relocating college over the communities of Friendship Park, Fort Mac - Arthur and Torrance. Carson is also the locale of Stub - Hub Center, a sports complex including a soccer-specific stadium used by the Los Angeles Galaxy, the Los Angeles Sol, from 2005 to 2014, C.D.
Chivas USA, and for the 2017 and 2018 seasons only, the Los Angeles Chargers of the NFL, a tennis stadium which hosts the annual JP Morgan/Chase tennis tournament, and a track and field facility.
The International Printing Museum, which has one of the biggest collections of antique printing presses in the United States, is positioned in Carson.
Carson Mall, now South - Bay Pavilion, opened in 1973 and is positioned at the Avalon Boulevard exit off the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405).
As Carson has large tracts of undeveloped land, unusual for a town/city in such close adjacency to urbane Los Angeles, various plans for the use of the territory have been proposed.
One such tract of territory located at Del Amo Boulevard, west of the 405, has thriving particular consideration as a potential site for a National Football League stadium. An outside power center complex called Carson Marketplace was originally prepared for the site.
In February 2015, however, the Marketplace plans were scrapped in favor of a $1.2 billion National Football League stadium, backed by Goldman Sachs, that would host both the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers. The NFL had previously considered the site as a locale for a stadium, but the plans stalled after it was identified that the site was once used as a toxic waste dump and would require an extensive clean-up operation before assembly was legally allowed to commence. In May 2015, the Carson City Council allocated $50 million to clean up the site for either the dual NFL stadium or the originally prepared Carson Marketplace as a fallback should the NFL stadium not come to fruition.
On January 12, 2016, NFL owners rejected Carson's bid to host an NFL stadium in favor of the competing bid in Inglewood backed by Rams owner Stan Kroenke. The mineral rights to this property were owned by Carson Estate Company, the Hellman Family, the Dominguez Estate Company, and the Burnham Exploration Company of Frederick Russell Burnham.
In 2011, Shell was ordered by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board to clean up the Carousel neighborhood after benzene and methane gas contamination was identified, as well as soil and groundwater contamination. Nissan previously had its North American command posts in Carson.
Vincent Roger of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "was a familiar sight to drivers passing the intersection of the Harbor and San Diego freeways." Around 2006 the business had 1,500 employees at the headquarters. In 2005 a leak revealed that Nissan prepared to move its offices to Tennessee.
In the summer of 2006, the Nissan command posts moved to Tennessee. Over half of the employees chose to stay in the Los Angeles area. The Game (Jayceon Taylor), rapper, lived in Carson age 7 to 15 while in foster care Dre (Andre Young, Sr.), rapper/producer, lived in Carson amid his middle school years (Station 127 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department) Carson has 3 sister cities.: Greater Los Angeles portal "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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