Los Angeles Almanac - Demographics, History, Statistics

Latest Population Estimates

Los Angeles County: 10,393,185
City of Los Angeles: 4,065,585
January 1, 2009 estimates

Source: California Dept. of Finance; Demographic Research Unit

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Did You Know?

The best place to see any part of the monstrous, 800-mile San Andreas Fault is in Palmdale in a road cut along the Antelope Valley Freeway (Route 14) just north of Avenue S. The last time this part of the fault was active was in 1857 during the Great Fort Tejon Earthquake.

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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