Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw is a neighborhood in the south region of the city of Los Angeles defined by the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times in 2009.[1] The Times combines two city-designated neighborhoods: the upscale, principally home-owning Baldwin Hills residential district to the south and the more concentrated apartment area of the Crenshaw district to the north.
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw | |
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 Map of the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, as delineated by the Los Angeles Times | |
  Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Location within Central Los Angeles | |
| Coordinates: 34°1′12.15″N 118°21′23.81″W / 34.0200417°N 118.3566139°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  California |
| City | Los Angeles |
| Area code | 323 |
History
Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera was a historic early-19th-century eastern hills Rancho land grant.[2][3]Baldwin Hills and other surrounding geography are named for the noted 19th-century horse racing and land development pioneer, Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin
Geography
Description
According to the 2009 Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw is bounded by Culver City, Jefferson Park, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills and West Adams. Areas within it are Baldwin Village, Baldwin Vista, The Dons and Village Green.[1][4] The neighborhood limits, according to Mapping L.A, are Jefferson Boulevard on the north, Ballona Creek, Jefferson Boulevard and La Brea Avenue on the west, the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area and Stocker Street on the south and Crenshaw Boulevard on the east.[1]
A commercial corridor along Crenshaw Boulevard includes Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, Marlton Square and Crenshaw Boulevard.[1]
Neighborhoods
Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw contains several neighborhoods:[4]
Demographics
2000
The 2000 U.S census counted 30,123 residents in Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw and its area of 2.88 square miles gave it a population density of 10,446 people per square mile, about average for Los Angeles and the county as a whole.
2008
In 2008 the city estimated that 32,234 people lived there. The median age was 36, older than the city as a whole. The percentage of residents aged 65 and older was among the county's highest.[1]
The neighborhood was considered "moderately diverse"[5] in 2000, with 71.3% of residents being of black or African-American ancestry, 17.3% Latino, 4.7% Asian, 3.3% white and 3.4% of other backgrounds. The neighborhood had the fifth-highest concentration of black residents in the city.[1][6]
The average household size was 2.3 people, low compared to the city as a whole. Almost 32% of the 2,400 families living in Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw were headed by single parents,[1] the third-highest rate in the city, after Watts and Vermont Knolls.[7]
The median household income at $37,948 in 2008 dollars was low compared with both city and county populations. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less a year was high for the county. The percentage of residents 25 and older with a high school education and some college was high for the county, Those with a college degree were about the same as the rest of the city and county.[1]
The large number of veterans, 2,272 or 10.2% of the population, was high for both the city and the county. The percentage of veterans who served during World War II or the Korean War was among the county's highest.[1]
Only 16.6% of the residents were foreign born, a low figure for both the city and the county. Mexico (31%) and El Salvador (16.8%) were the most common foreign places of birth.[1]
Parks and recreation
- Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook State Park:[8][9] The 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) park is open daily from 8 a.m. to sunset. The Visitor Center is open Thursday–Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The park includes an amphitheater, drinking water, the Evan Frankel Discovery Center, gardening boxes, picnic tables, a permeable parking lot ($6), toilets, and walking paths with a central feature known as the Culver City Stairs. The Visitor Center has a guide to the native plants of the area and history of Culver City.[10]
- Kenneth Hahn State Regional Park: recreation and sports areas, and preservation of the open-space lands and native habitats: entrance on South La Cienega Boulevard.[11]
- Norman O. Houston Park[12]
- Jim Gilliam Recreation Center[13]
Government
The Los Angeles Fire Department Station 94 serves the neighborhood.
Education
Los Angeles Unified School District operates Susan Miller Dorsey High School, Crenshaw High School, and numerous other public schools in the area.
Notable people
Numerous famous people, including Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, Darryl Strawberry and Tiffany Haddish, reside in either Baldwin Hills or the Crenshaw District.
