Editing Greater Los Angeles (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
| title = Historical population<br /><small>Greater Los Angeles CSA</small><br /><small>(Five-county area)</small>
| 1900 = 250187
| 1910 = 648316
| 1920 = 1150252
| 1930 = 2597066
| 1940 = 3252720
| 1950 = 4934246
| 1960 = 7751616
| 1970 = 9981942
| 1980 = 11497486
| 1990 = 14531529
| 2000 = 16373645
| 2010 = 17877006
| 2020 = 18644680
| estyear = 2023
| estimate = 18316743
| footnote = U.S. Census Bureau<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lgc.org/freepub/PDF/Land_Use/reports/older_suburbs_in_LA.pdf|title=Older Suburbs in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area|work=Local Government Commission|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528012256/http://www.lgc.org/freepub/PDF/Land_Use/reports/older_suburbs_in_LA.pdf|archive-date = May 28, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
}}

According to the 2020 census, there were 18,644,680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}} The racial makeup of the area was 29.4% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (23.0% Non-Hispanic European and 6.4% Non-Hispanic Middle Eastern), 13.8% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]] (Non-Hispanic), 6.1% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.5% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]] (Non-Hispanic), and 3.3% from two or more races (Non-Hispanic). 46.3% of the population were [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] of any race, a super-majority of which was of [[Mexican American|Mexican]] origin.<ref name="2020CensusP2">{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Los Angeles County, California|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=0500000US06037&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref> 29.4% of the population (5.5 million) was foreign born; most immigrants came from Latin America and Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://datausa.io/profile/geo/orange-county-ca?compare=los-angeles-county-ca |title=Orange Count, CA & Los Angeles County, CA |website=Data USA}}</ref>

The explosive growth of the region in the 20th century can be attributed to its favorable [[Mediterranean climate]], the availability of land and many booming industries such as [[oil industry|oil]], [[automobile industry|automobile]] and rubber, [[film industry|motion pictures]], [[intermodal freight transport|intermodal]], [[logistics]], and aerospace which in turn attracted millions of people from all over the United States and world.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Citrus production was important to the region's development in the earlier part of the 20th century.<ref name="Garcia">{{cite book|last=Garcia|first=Matt|title=A World of its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970|url=https://archive.org/details/worldofitsownrac0000garc|url-access=registration|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill, North Carolina|year=2001|edition=2nd|isbn=978-0-8078-2658-4}}</ref>
[[File:Ethnic Origins in the Los Angeles CSA.png|thumb|Ethnic origins in LA CSA (5 counties)]]
While the [[New York metropolitan area]] is presently the most populous metropolitan area in the United States, it has been predicted in the past that Greater Los Angeles will eventually surpass Greater New York in population.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Whether this will happen is yet to be seen, but past predictions on this event have been off the mark. A 1966 article in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass New York by 1975, and that by 1990, would reach close to the 19 million mark.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Magnet in the West | newspaper = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = September 2, 1966 | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842728-4,00.html | access-date = April 24, 2008 | quote = Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure to surpass New York by 1975. Last week alone, some 5,000 people moved into the area. By 1990, such growth will make the city the hub of an uninterrupted urbanized stretch of almost 19 million inhabitants occupying the 175-mile-long, coastal area that runs from Santa Barbara in the north to San Diego in the south. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081204075931/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842728-4,00.html | archive-date = December 4, 2008 | url-status = dead }}</ref> But the article's flawed definition of Greater Los Angeles included [[San Diego]], which is actually its own [[San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MSA|metropolitan area]]. A 1989 article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' predicted Greater Los Angeles would surpass Greater New York by 2010,<ref>{{Cite news | last = Reinhold | first = Robert | title = No Headline | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | date = August 28, 1989 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/28/us/no-headline-953789.html&pagewanted=all | access-date = April 24, 2008 | quote=[A]nd the region's population will surpass New York's, reaching 18.3 million in 2010}}</ref> but the article predicted the population would be 18.3 million in that year, a number Greater New York already surpassed in 2007 by half a million people. By 2009, the New York metropolitan area had a population of 22.2 million compared to the Greater Los Angeles Area's 18.7 million, about a 3.56 million persons difference.<ref>Excerpted from [[California Department of Finance]]</ref> Percentage growth, however, has been higher in Greater Los Angeles over the past few decades than in Greater New York.

===Demographics of Los Angeles and Orange counties===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
![[List of counties in California|County]]
!2021 Estimate
!2020 Census
!Change
!Area
!Density
|-
|[[Los Angeles County]]
| {{change|invert=on|9829544|10014009}}
|{{convert|4057.88|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|{{Pop density|9829544|4057.88|sqmi|km2|prec=0}}
|-
|[[Orange County, California|Orange County]]
| {{change|invert=on|3167809|3186989}}
|{{convert|790.57|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|{{Pop density|3167809|790.57|sqmi|km2|prec=0}}
|- class=sortbottom style="background:#fbfbbb"
|'''Total'''
| {{change|invert=on|12997353|13200998|bgcolour=#fbfbbb}}
|{{convert|4848.45|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|{{Pop density|12997353|4848.45|sqmi|km2|prec=0}}
|}

{{US Census population
| title = Historical population<br /><small>Los Angeles MSA</small><br /><small>(Los Angeles and Orange Counties)</small>
| 1890 = 115043
| 1900 = 189994
| 1910 = 538567
| 1920 = 997830
| 1930 = 2327166
| 1940 = 2916403
| 1950 = 4367911
| 1960 = 6742696
| 1970 = 8462366
| 1980 = 9410130
| 1990 = 11273720
| 2000 = 12365627
| 2010 = 12828837
| 2020 = 13200998
| estimate = 12799100
| estyear = 2023
| footnote = State Census data <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/historical_census_1850-2010/view.php |title=Historical Census 1850–2010 – SDC – Demographic Research – California Department of Finance |access-date=2014-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628132422/http://www.dof.ca.gov/research/demographic/state_census_data_center/historical_census_1850-2010/view.php |archive-date=June 28, 2014  }}</ref>
}}

====Age and gender====
According to the 2009 [[American Community Survey]], the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area had a population of 12,874,797, of which 6,402,498 (49.7% of the population) were male and 6,472,299 (50.3% of the population) were female. The age composition is shown in the table at right.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="text-align: center;"
|-
! colspan="2" |Age distribution<br />Los Angeles and<br />Orange Counties, 2009
|-
!Age
!% of pop.
|-
|Under 5
| 7.3%
|-
| 5 to 9
| 6.6%
|-
| 10 to 14
| 7.0%
|-
| 15 to 19
| 7.2%
|-
| 20 to 24
| 7.0%
|-
| 25 to 34
| 15.5%
|-
| 35 to 44
| 14.8%
|-
| 45 to 54
| 13.9%
|-
| 55 to 59
| 5.5%
|-
| 60 to 64
| 4.4%
|-
| 65 to 74 
| 5.6%
|-
| 75 to 84
| 3.6%
|-
| 85 and over
| 1.6%
|-
|Median age
|34.6
|}

Median age: 34.6 years

====Race====
According to the 2020 census, there were 18,644,680 people living in the Greater Los Angeles Area. The racial makeup of the area was 29.4% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (23.0% Non-Hispanic European and 6.4% Non-Hispanic Middle Eastern), 13.8% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]] (Non-Hispanic), 6.1% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.2% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]] (Non-Hispanic), 0.5% from [[Race (U.S. Census)|other races]] (Non-Hispanic), and 3.3% from two or more races (Non-Hispanic). 46.3% of the population were [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] of any race, a super-majority of which was of [[Mexican American|Mexican]] origin.<ref name="2020CensusP2"/>
[[File:Ethnic Origins in the Los Angeles MSA.png|center|thumb|Ethnic origins in LA and Orange Counties]]

Non-Hispanic whites make up under one-third (29.4%) of the population, approximately 5,477,462 residents. The top [[Maps of American ancestries|European ancestries]] were [[German Americans|German]]: 7.0% (1,301,202), [[English Americans|English]]: 6.1% (1,131,426), [[Irish Americans|Irish]]: 5.4% (1,002,233), [[Italian Americans|Italian]]: 3.4% (624,585), [[Nordic and Scandinavian Americans|Scandinavian]]: 2.2% (405,887), [[French Americans|French]]: 1.5% (284,180), [[Scottish Americans|Scottish]]: 1.4% (264,429), [[Polish Americans|Polish]]: 1.2% (224,443), and [[Russian Americans|Russian]]: 1.0% (189,115). The top Middle Eastern ancestries were [[Jewish Americans|Jewish]]: 3.2% (600,000), [[Armenian Americans|Armenian]]: 1.2% (214.190), [[Arab Americans|Arab]]: 0.98% (182,934), and [[Iranian Americans|Iranian]]: 0.75% (139,632). Additionally, 3.3% (611,193) of residents identified as simply [[American ancestry|American]]. Values may add to over 100% because people can identify with more than one ethnicity.

Approximately 2,577,706 residents are Asian of non-Hispanic origin. Asians of non-Hispanic origin make up 13.8% of the population, about 1.4% [[South Asian Americans|South Asian]] (Indian Subcontinent), and about 12.4% were East or Southeast Asian. The six largest Asian ancestries with respect to all of Greater LA's population were [[Chinese Americans|Chinese]]: ~ 6.1% , [[Filipino Americans|Filipino]]: ~ 3.1%, [[Vietnamese Americans|Vietnamese]]: ~ 2.0%, [[Korean Americans in Greater Los Angeles|Korean]] ~ 1.9%, [[Indian Americans|Indian]] ~ 1.1% , and [[Japanese Americans|Japanese]] ~ 0.8%. Other important Asian American groups include [[Cambodian Americans|Cambodian]], [[Laotian Americans|Laotian]], [[Hmong Americans|Hmong]], [[Taiwanese Americans|Taiwanese]], [[Pakistani Americans|Pakistani]], and [[Thai Americans|Thai]] Americans.

Non-Hispanic blacks make up 6.1% of the population. Approximately 1,143,781 residents are non-Hispanic blacks. Sub-Saharan Africans were 0.7% (137,443) and Non-Hispanic Caribbean Blacks were 0.3% (62,419).

Non-Hispanic Native Americans make up 0.2% of the population (46,143).

Non-Hispanic Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders make up 0.2% of the population. Approximately 42,591 residents are Native Hawaiian or of other Pacific Islander ancestries. The largest Pacific Islander ancestries were [[Samoan Americans|Samoan]], [[Native Hawaiian]], and Guamanian or [[Chamorro people|Chamorro]], and [[Tongan Americans|Tongan]]

Non-Hispanic Multiracial people make up 3.3% of the population. Approximately 624,473 people are non-Hispanic multiracial.

People who listed "other" as their race made up 0.5% (102,434) of the population.

Source: data.census.gov. Retrieved on April 15, 2023.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=Ancestry+los+angeles&tid=ACSDP1Y2021.DP02|title=Ancestry Los Angeles|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

====Hispanic or Latino origin====
Hispanic or Latinos, who may be of any race, are by far the largest group; Hispanics or Latinos make up 46.3% of the population. They outnumber every other racial group. Approximately 8,630,090 residents are Hispanic or Latino. The largest Hispanic or Latino ancestry was by far [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]], with other important groups being [[Salvadoran Americans|Salvadoran]], [[Guatemalan Americans|Guatemalan]], [[Honduran Americans|Honduran]], [[Peruvian Americans|Peruvian]],  [[Stateside Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]], [[Colombian Americans|Colombian]], and [[Cuban Americans|Cuban]].