Los Angeles Almanac - Demographics, History, Statistics

Latest Population Estimates

Los Angeles County: 10,441,080
City of Los Angeles: 4,094,764
January 1, 2010 estimates

Source: California Dept. of Finance; Demographic Research Unit

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Did You Know?

Two Japanese confectionary shops (wagashi) in Little Tokyo are among the oldest food establishments in Los Angeles. The shop Fugetsu-do was founded in 1903 and is said to be the oldest food establishment still operating in Los Angeles.

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“[We found] a delightful place among the trees on the river. There are all the requisites for a large settlement.” Father Juan Crespi, August 2, 1769	“Perhaps no city in modern times has been so universally envied, imitated, ridiculed, and, because of what it may portend, feared.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 2000