Editing Los Angeles (section)

===Race and ethnicity===
[[File:Los angeles chinatown0001.jpg|thumb|Los Angeles [[Chinatown, Los Angeles|Chinatown]]]]
According to data in 2023 from the [[United States Census Bureau]] Los Angeles's population is 28.3% non-Hispanic [[White Americans|White]], 8.5% [[African Americans|Black]], 12.0% [[Asian Americans|Asian]], 1.2%  [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 0.1% [[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] and 47.2% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescitycalifornia/PST045223 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=March 26, 2025 |title=QuickFacts Los Angeles city, California}}</ref> [[Ethnic enclave]]s like [[Chinatown, Los Angeles|Chinatown]], [[Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles|Historic Filipinotown]], [[Koreatown, Los Angeles|Koreatown]], [[Little Armenia, Los Angeles|Little Armenia]], [[Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles|Little Ethiopia]], [[Tehrangeles]], [[Little Tokyo, Los Angeles|Little Tokyo]], [[Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles|Little Bangladesh]], and [[Thai Town, Los Angeles|Thai Town]] provide examples of the [[Multiculturalism|polyglot]] character of Los Angeles.
[[Mexican American|Mexican]] ancestry makes up the largest origin among descendants of [[List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas|American countries]] other than the United States at 31.9% of the city's population, followed by those of [[Salvadoran American|Salvadoran]] (6.0%) and [[Guatemalan American|Guatemalan]] (3.6%) heritage. Descendants of Mexicans and Central Americans have long established communities in Los Angeles and are spread throughout the entire city and its metropolitan area. It is most heavily concentrated in regions around Downtown, such as [[East Los Angeles (region)|East Los Angeles]], [[Northeast Los Angeles]] and [[Westlake, Los Angeles|Westlake]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neighborhood Wellbeing and Environmental Quality for Latino/a Communities in Southeast Los Angeles – Neighborhood Data for Social Change |url=https://la.myneighborhooddata.org/2021/08/neighborhood-wellbeing-and-environmental-quality-for-latino-a-communities-in-south-east-los-angeles/ |access-date=2024-06-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>

The largest Asian ethnic groups are [[Filipino American|Filipinos]] (3.2%) and [[Korean American|Koreans]] (2.9%), which have their own established ethnic enclaves—[[Koreatown, Los Angeles|Koreatown]] in the Wilshire Center and [[Historic Filipinotown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-06/filipinotown-cool-enclaves|title=Here's how HIFI, or Historic Filipinotown got its name|last=Shyong|first=Frank|date=January 6, 2020|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=January 6, 2020|archive-date=January 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200106154632/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-06/filipinotown-cool-enclaves|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Chinese American|Chinese]] people, which make up 1.8% of Los Angeles's population, reside mostly outside of Los Angeles city limits, in the [[San Gabriel Valley]] of eastern Los Angeles County, but make a sizable presence in the city, notably in [[Chinatown, Los Angeles|Chinatown]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chinatownla.com/wp1/|title=Welcome to Los Angeles Chinatown|website=chinatownla.com|access-date=June 10, 2015|archive-date=January 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124023816/http://chinatownla.com/wp1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Chinatown and [[Thaitown, Los Angeles, California|Thaitown]] are also home to many [[Thai American|Thais]] and [[Cambodian American|Cambodians]], which make up 0.3% and 0.1% of Los Angeles's population, respectively. The [[Japanese American|Japanese]] comprise 0.9% of the city's population and have an established [[Little Tokyo, Los Angeles|Little Tokyo]] in the city's downtown, and another significant community of Japanese Americans is in the [[Sawtelle, Los Angeles|Sawtelle]] district of West Los Angeles. [[Vietnamese American|Vietnamese]] make up 0.5% of Los Angeles's population. [[Indian American|Indians]] make up 0.9% of the city's population. 

Los Angeles is also home to Caucasian and Middle Eastern communities, such as [[Armenian American|Armenians]], [[Assyrian Americans|Assyrians]], and [[Iranian Americans|Iranians]], many of whom live in enclaves like [[Little Armenia, Los Angeles|Little Armenia]] and [[Tehrangeles]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Najafi |first=Leila |date=2021-10-23 |title=A Guide to Tehrangeles, Los Angeles's Pocket of Iranian Culture |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/story/a-guide-to-iranian-culture-in-los-angeles |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Eater Staff |date=2016-08-17 |title=Where to Eat Armenian Food in L.A. {{!}} MOFAD City |url=http://www.eater.com/a/mofad-city-guides/la-armenian-restaurants |access-date=2024-06-17 |website=Eater.com}}</ref>

African Americans have been the predominant ethnic group in [[South Los Angeles]], which has emerged as the largest African-American community in the western United States since the 1960s. The neighborhoods of South Los Angeles with highest concentration of African Americans include [[Crenshaw, Los Angeles|Crenshaw]], [[Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles|Baldwin Hills]], [[Leimert Park, Los Angeles|Leimert Park]], [[Hyde Park, Los Angeles|Hyde Park]], [[Gramercy Park, Los Angeles|Gramercy Park]], [[Manchester Square, Los Angeles|Manchester Square]] and [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts]].<ref name="MaryEllen">{{cite book|title=The City of Watts, California: 1907 to 1926|author=Ray, MaryEllen Bell|year=1985|publisher=Rising Pub. |isbn=978-0-917047-01-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/cityofwattscalif0000raym}}</ref> Since the 1990s, the growing cost of living in the city has most impacted the African American population. African Americans are the fastest declining population in the city and many of the formerly predominately African American neighborhoods have become much more diverse.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-30/investors-leimert-park|title=Do you want to sell your house? In historically Black Leimert Park, the question triggers fear and anger|date=January 30, 2024|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/neighborhood/episodes/black-neighborhood-you-arent-black|title=This Is a Black Neighborhood. You Aren't Black. &#124; There Goes the Neighborhood|website=WNYC Studios}}</ref> There is also a sizable [[Eritrean Americans|Eritrean]] and [[Ethiopian Americans|Ethiopian]] community in the Fairfax region.<ref>{{cite book|title=Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration|page=693|isbn=9781598842197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AP7QCteb0o0C&pg=PA693 |last1=Barkan |first1=Elliott Robert |date=January 17, 2013 |publisher=Abc-Clio }}</ref>

Los Angeles has the second-largest Mexican, Armenian, Salvadoran, Filipino, and Guatemalan populations by city in the world, the third-largest Canadian population in the world, and has the largest Japanese, Iranian/Persian, Cambodian, and Romani (Gypsy) populations in the country.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bpQB4ogOQscC&pg=PA83 |title=The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History |page=83 |isbn=9780262581523 |last1=Hayden |first1=Dolores |date=February 24, 1997 |publisher=MIT Press |access-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-date=November 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231106164905/https://books.google.com/books?id=bpQB4ogOQscC&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The Italian community is concentrated in San Pedro.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwQZUOiSqPcC&q=italians+in+los+angeles |title=Italians in Los Angeles |isbn=9780738547756 |last1=Bitetti |first1=Marge |year=2007 |publisher=Arcadia |access-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-date=April 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427002724/https://books.google.com/books?id=MwQZUOiSqPcC&q=italians+in+los+angeles |url-status=live }}</ref>

Most of Los Angeles' foreign-born population were born in [[Mexico]], [[El Salvador]], [[Guatemala]], the [[Philippines]] and [[South Korea]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/731/docs/LOSANGELES_web.pdf|title=Los Angeles|website=dornsife.usc.edu|access-date=August 7, 2023|archive-date=July 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721044750/https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/731/docs/LOSANGELES_web.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>