Huntington Park, California Huntington Park, California City of Huntington Park Official seal of Huntington Park, California Location of Huntington Park in Los Angeles County, California Location of Huntington Park in Los Angeles County, California Huntington Park, California is positioned in the US Huntington Park, California - Huntington Park, California Huntington Park is a town/city in the Gateway Cities precinct of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.

Huntington, Huntington Park was incorporated in 1906 as a streetcar suburb for workers in the quickly expanding industries to the southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

To this day, about 30% of its inhabitants work at factories in close-by Vernon and Commerce. The stretch of Pacific Boulevard in downtown Huntington Park was a primary commercial precinct serving the city's largely working-class residents, as well as those of neighboring metros/cities such as Bell, Cudahy, South Gate, and Downey.

As with most of the other metros/cities along the corridor stretching along the Los Angeles River to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park was an almost exclusively white improve amid most of its history; Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue, which were fiercely defended segregation lines in the 1950s, separated it from black areas.

The shifts that shaped Los Angeles from the late 1970s forward the diminish of American manufacturing that began in the 1970s; the rapid expansion of newer suburbs in Orange County, the easterly San Gabriel, San Fernando and Conejo valleys; the collapse of the aerospace and defense trade at the end of the Cold War; and the implosion of the Southern California real estate boom in the early 1990s resulted in the wholesale departure of virtually all of the white populace of Huntington Park by the mid-1990s.

Today, Pacific Boulevard is once again a grow commercial strip, serving as a primary retail center for working-class inhabitants of southeastern Los Angeles County but unlike its previous heyday of the 1930s, the signs along the avenue's storefronts are now primarily in Spanish.

It was bought by Pacific Boulevard Holdings/ Retail Management Corp for $1,600,000.[better origin needed] California Theatre opened on 1925 and was directed by Fox Theatres as the Fox California Theatre.

Huntington Park is positioned at 33 59 N 118 13 W (33.982, -118.217). Before California abolished judicial townships (some time after 1960), Huntington Park was positioned in San Antonio Township.

Cities encircling Huntington Park include Bell, Cudahy, Los Angeles, Maywood, South Gate, and Vernon.

In addition unincorporated areas, including Florence-Graham and Walnut Park, are adjoining to Huntington Park. A 2012 study by the California Center for Public Health Advocacy found Huntington Park California had the highest percentage of overweight kids in all of California with 53% of the city's child populace being obese or overweight. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Huntington Park had a populace of 58,114.

The ethnic makeup of Huntington Park was 56,445 (97.1%) Hispanic or Latino, 29,776 (51.2%) White (1.6% Non-Hispanic White), 440 (0.8%) African American, 752 (1.3%) Native American, 393 (0.7%) Asian, 28 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 24,535 (42.2%) from other competitions, and 2,190 (3.8%) from two or more competitions. The populace was spread out with 18,439 citizens (31.7%) under the age of 18, 6,984 citizens (12.0%) aged 18 to 24, 17,886 citizens (30.8%) aged 25 to 44, 10,942 citizens (18.8%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,863 citizens (6.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.

During 2009 2013, Huntington Park had a median homehold income of $36,397, with 28.7% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. These were the ten metros/cities or neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the biggest percentage of Latino residents, as stated to the 2000 census: Huntington Park, California, 95.1% "Latino," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times Fire protection in Huntington Park is provided by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

The LACFD operates Station #164, the battalion headquarters, at 6301 South Santa Fe Avenue and Station #165 at 3255 Saturn Avenue, both in Huntington Park, as a part of Battalion 13. The Huntington Park Police Department provides law enforcement.

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Whittier Health Center in Whittier, serving Huntington Park. In the California State Senate, Huntington Park is in the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Ricardo Lara. In the California State Assembly, Huntington Park is split between the 53rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Miguel Santiago, and the 59th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Reggie Jones-Sawyer. In the United States House of Representatives, Huntington Park is in California's 40th congressional district, represented by Democrat Lucille Roybal-Allard. The United States Postal Service operates the Huntington Park Post Office at 6606 Seville Avenue, the Soto Post Office at 5625 Soto Street, and the State Street Post Office at 7800 State Street. Bus services are provided by both the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), and Huntington Park's own COMBI bus service. Huntington Park is zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Hope Street Elementary School (Huntington Park) (Opened 2005) Huntington Park New Elementary School 7 (Opened 2006) Middleton Elementary School (Huntington Park) and Middleton New Primary Center (K) Miles Elementary School (Huntington Park) Pacific Boulevard School (Huntington Park, Opened 2005) San Antonio Elementary School (Huntington Park) Walnut Park Elementary School (Huntington Park) Huntington Park New Elementary #3 (Huntington Park, opening soon) Gage Middle School (Huntington Park) Nimitz Middle School (Huntington Park) Walnut Park Middle School Huntington Park High School Alliance Collins Family College Ready High School (Also known as: Alliance Huntington Park College-Ready Academy High School) Most inhabitants are zoned to Huntington Park High School or Linda Esperanza Marquez High School (opened 2012).

Some inhabitants of Huntington Park are zoned to Bell High School in Bell, and some areas are jointly zoned to both schools. Any student who lives in the Bell or Huntington Park zones may apply to Maywood Academy High School in Maywood; Maywood Academy, which opened in 2005 and moved into its permanent ground in 2006, does not have its own attendance boundary because it lacks American football, track and field, and tennis facilities. San Antonio Continuation School and Huntington Park College Ready Academy (a enhance charter school) also serve the high school population.

Some parts of Huntington Park are zoned to both Huntington Park and Bell High School.

The groundbreaking for South Region High School 7 in Huntington Park occurred in 2010. The school was scheduled to open in 2012. County of Los Angeles Public Library operates the Huntington Park Library at 6518 Miles Avenue. Leon Leyson - youngest person on Schindler's List, taught for many years at Huntington Park High School. He died from lymphoma at age 82 in Whittier, California. Rosario Marin - 41st Treasurer of the United States and a former mayor of Huntington Park.

Terry Wilson - stuntman and actor, famous as "Bill Hawks" on the tv series Wagon Train, was born in 1923 in Huntington Park.

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