Editing Greater Los Angeles

{{Short description|Metropolitan area in California, United States}}
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| caption5 = [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
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* [[Anaheim]]
* [[Fontana, California|Fontana]]
* [[Irvine, California|Irvine]]
* [[Long Beach]]
* [[Moreno Valley]]
* [[Oxnard]]
* [[Riverside, California|Riverside]]
* [[San Bernardino]]
* [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
* [[Santa Clarita]]
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| population         = 18316743
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| population_density_sq_mi = 541.1
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| name               = Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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[[File:Los Angeles Metropolitan Area by Sentinel-2, 2019-03-30 (small version).jpg|thumb|Los Angeles Metropolitan Area by Sentinel-2, ESA|upright=1.2]]
[[File:Los Angeles, Winter 2016.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|{{center|[[Downtown Los Angeles]] in 2016}}]]
'''Greater Los Angeles''' is the most populous [[metropolitan area]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]], encompassing five [[counties]] in [[Southern California]] extending from [[Ventura County]] in the west to [[San Bernardino County]] and [[Riverside County]] in the east, with the [[city of Los Angeles]] and [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]] at its center, and [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] to the southeast. The Los Angeles–Long Beach [[combined statistical area]] (CSA) covers {{convert|33954|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us}}, making it the largest metropolitan region in the United States by land area. The contiguous urban area is {{convert|2281|sqmi|sqkm|sp=us}},<ref name=urban/> whereas the remainder mostly consists of mountain and desert areas. With an estimated population of over 18.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2023),<ref name="auto"/> it is the second-largest metropolitan area in the country, behind [[New York metropolitan area|New York]], as well as one of the [[megacity|largest megacities in the world]].<ref>[http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704112702/http://www.citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html|date=July 4, 2010}} World's Largest Metropolitan Areas, 2012</ref>

In addition to being the nexus of the global entertainment industry, including films, television, and recorded music, Greater Los Angeles is also an important center of international trade, education, media, business, tourism, technology, and sports.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/04/10/cities.dominate.world/index.html?thisSpeed=30000 |title=Revealed: Cities that rule the world |publisher=CNN|date=April 10, 2010 |access-date=October 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124012638/http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/04/10/cities.dominate.world/index.html?thisSpeed=30000 |archive-date=November 24, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is the [[List of cities or metropolitan areas by GDP|third-largest]] metropolitan area by [[nominal GDP]] in the world with an economy exceeding $1 trillion in output, behind [[New York metropolitan area|New York City]] and [[Tokyo metropolitan area|Tokyo]].

There are three contiguous component urban areas in Greater Los Angeles: the [[Inland Empire]], which can be broadly defined as Riverside and San Bernardino counties; the Ventura/Oxnard metropolitan area (Ventura County); and the '''Los Angeles metropolitan area''' (also known as '''Metropolitan Los Angeles''' or '''Metro LA''') consisting of Los Angeles and Orange counties only. The Census Bureau designates the latter as the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim [[metropolitan statistical area]] (MSA), the [[List of metropolitan areas in the Americas|fourth largest]] metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second-largest [[metropolitan area]] in the United States, by population of 13 million as of the [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. census]]. It has a total area of {{convert|4850|sqmi|km2|0|sp=us}}. Although [[San Diego–Tijuana]] borders the Greater Los Angeles area at [[San Clemente, California|San Clemente]] and [[Temecula, California|Temecula]], it is not part of it as the two urban areas are not geographically contiguous due to the presence of [[Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton|Camp Pendleton]]. However, both form part of the Southern California [[megalopolis]] which extends into [[Tijuana]], Baja California, Mexico.

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==Definitions==
[[File:Los Angeles CSA.svg|thumb|The Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
{{Legend|#b00000|Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA}}
{{Legend|#33a02c|Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA}}
{{Legend|#ff7f00|Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA MSA}}]]

{| class="wikitable"
!
! Area (km<sup>2</sup>)
! Population (2023)
! GDP<br/>(million US$)
|-
| Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA (MSA) 
| 12,580
| 12,799,100<ref name=PopEstCBSA>{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html#v2023 |title=Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Population Totals: 2020-2023 |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]], Population Division |date=March 14, 2024 |access-date=March 15, 2024 }}</ref>
| 1,295,361<ref name="Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (MSA)">{{Cite web|title=Total Gross Domestic Product for Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (MSA) |url=https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP31080|work=[[Federal Reserve Economic Data]] |publisher=[[Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis]]}}</ref>
|-
| Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA (MSA) 
| 70,610
| 4,688,053<ref name=PopEstCBSA/>
| 256,859<ref name="Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA)">{{Cite web|title= Total Gross Domestic Product for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA (MSA) |url= https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP40140 |work=Federal Reserve Economic Data |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis}}</ref>
|-
| Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA (MSA) 
| 4,770
| 829,590<ref name=PopEstCBSA/>
| 65,991<ref name="Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA (MSA)">{{Cite web|title= Total Gross Domestic Product for Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA (MSA) |url= https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP37100 |work=Federal Reserve Economic Data |publisher=Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis}}</ref>
|-
|- style="background:#feb;"
| '''Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA CSA''' 
| '''87,960'''
| '''18,316,743'''
| '''1,618,212'''
|-
|}

===Los Angeles metropolitan area===
The Los Angeles metropolitan area is defined by the U.S. [[Office of Management and Budget]] as the '''Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area''' (MSA),<ref>{{cite web |title=Current Lists of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas and Definitions |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html |publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]] |access-date=December 25, 2009 |archive-date=September 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110923210013/http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html |url-status=live }}</ref> with a 2021 population of 12,997,353.<ref name="2021 CBSA populations">{{cite web |title=Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020–2021 |work=[[US Census Bureau]] |url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html |access-date=June 19, 2022 |archive-date=June 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220629175327/https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-total-metro-and-micro-statistical-areas.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The MSA is in turn made up of two "metropolitan divisions":
* '''Los Angeles–Long Beach–Glendale, CA Metropolitan Division''', coterminous with [[Los Angeles County]] (2023 population 9,663,345)
* '''Anaheim–Santa Ana–Irvine, CA Metropolitan Division''', coterminous with [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] (2023 population 3,135,755)

The MSA is the most populous metropolitan area in the [[Western United States]] and second-most populous in the United States. It has at its core the [[Los Angeles]]–[[Long Beach]]–[[Anaheim]] [[urban area]], which had a population of 12,237,376 as of the 2020 census.<ref name="urban area">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/geo-areas/urban-rural.html|title=List of 2020 Census Urban Areas|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 7, 2023}}</ref>

===Greater Los Angeles===
The U.S. Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns, the '''Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area''' (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,316,743 in 2023.<ref name=PopEstCBSA/> The total land area of the CSA is 33,955 sq. mi (87,945&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>).

The CSA includes three component metropolitan areas:
* The Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA (2023 pop. 12,799,100), consisting of:
** [[Los Angeles County, California]] (2023 pop. 9,663,345)<ref name="census_population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023">{{cite web | title=More Counties Saw Population Gains in 2023 | publisher=United States Census Bureau | url=https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023.html | access-date=March 14, 2024 }}</ref>
** [[Orange County, California]] (2023 pop. 3,135,755)<ref name="census_population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023"/>
* The Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura, CA MSA, coterminous with [[Ventura County]] (2023 pop. 829,590)<ref name="census_population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023"/>
* The [[Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA]] (2023 pop. 4,688,053), consisting of:
** [[Riverside County, California]] (2023 pop. 2,492,442)<ref name="census_population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023"/>
** [[San Bernardino County, California]] (2023 pop. 2,195,611)<ref name="census_population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023"/>

==History==
{{Main|History of Los Angeles}}Nearly all of the metropolitan area of Greater Los Angeles is located within the homelands of the [[Tongva]], otherwise referred to as [[Tovaangar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=On Tovaangar {{!}} PRIME |url=https://prime.dailybruin.com/Tovaangar/ |access-date=2023-01-06 |website=On Tovaangar {{!}} PRIME |language=en |quote=Tovaangar, which encompasses all of Gabrielino-Tongva territory, covers the [[Los Angeles Basin]], half of Orange County, parts of Riverside County and San Bernardino County...}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Greene |first1=Sean |last2=Curwen |first2=Thomas |title=Mapping the Tongva villages of L.A.'s past |url=https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-tongva-map/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 9, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Geography==
{{See also|Southern California#Geology}}

===Urban form===
[[File:South-Los-Angeles-110-and-105-freeways-Aerial-view-from-north-August-2014.jpg|thumb|right|Many areas are completely filled with houses, buildings, roads, and freeways as observed in [[Vermont Vista, Los Angeles|Vermont Vista]], a Los Angeles neighborhood.]]
Los Angeles has long been famous for its [[urban sprawl|sprawl]], but this has to do more with its status in history as the "poster child" of large cities that grew up with suburban-style patterns of development, rather than how it ranks in sprawl among American metro areas today, now that suburban and [[exurban]]-style development is present across the country.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berube |first1=Alan |title=Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe |date=2006 |publisher=Brookings Institution |url=https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20061017_exurbia.pdf |access-date=June 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204165955/https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20061017_exurbia.pdf |archive-date=February 4, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Los Angeles–Orange County metro area was the ''most'' densely populated "urbanized area" (as defined by the [[United States Census Bureau]]) in the United States in 2000, with {{convert|7068|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|0|sp=us}}.<ref>American Factfinder, United States Census Bureau, Table: "GCT-PH1-R. Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density (geographies ranked by total population): 2000" from Data Set: "Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF 1) 100-Percent Data", accessed October 10, 2007 at: [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-state=gct&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1-R&-mt_name=&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=&-format=US-12S&-_lang=en] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080219044227/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-state=gct&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1-R&-mt_name=&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=&-format=US-12S&-_lang=en|date=February 19, 2008}} See also: [[List of United States urban areas]]</ref> For comparison, the [[New York metropolitan area|"New York–Newark" Urbanized Area]] had a population density of {{convert|5309|/sqmi|/km2|0|sp=us}}.

Los Angeles' reputation for sprawl is due to the fact that the city grew from relative obscurity to one of the country's ten largest cities (i.e. 10th largest city in 1920), at a time when suburban patterns of growth first became possible due to electric streetcars and automobiles. The city was also the first large American city where, in the 1920s, major clusters of regional employment, shopping, and culture were already being built outside the traditional downtown areas – in [[edge cities]] such as [[Mid-Wilshire]], [[Miracle Mile, Los Angeles|Miracle Mile]] and [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]. This pattern of growth continued ever outward, more so when the freeway system was built starting in the 1950s; thus Greater Los Angeles was the earliest large American metropolitan area with a [[decentralization|decentralized]] structure. Its major commercial, financial, and cultural institutions are geographically dispersed rather than being concentrated in a single downtown or central area. Also, the [[population density]] of [[Los Angeles]] proper is low (approximately 8,300 people per square mile) when compared to some other large American cities such as New York City (27,500), [[San Francisco]] (17,000), [[Boston]] (13,300), and [[Chicago]] (11,800).<ref>Haughton, Graham, and Colin Hunter, ''Sustainable Cities'', London: Routledge, 2003: 81.</ref> Densities are particularly high within a 5-mile radius of downtown, where some neighborhoods exceed 20,000 people per square mile.<ref>{{cite web |title=Population Density |url=https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/population/density/neighborhood/list/ |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=March 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103211925/http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/population/density/neighborhood/list/ |archive-date=November 3, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> What gives the entire Los Angeles metro region a high density is the fact that many of the city's suburbs and satellite cities have high density rates.<ref>Bruegmann, Robert. ''Sprawl: A Compact History''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2005: 65.</ref> Within its urbanized areas, Los Angeles is noted for having small lot sizes and low-rise buildings. Buildings in the area are low when compared to other large cities, mainly due to zoning regulations. Los Angeles became a major city just as the [[Pacific Electric Railway]] spread population to smaller cities much as interurbans did in East Coast cities. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the area was marked by a network of fairly dense but separate cities linked by rail. The ascendance of the [[automobile]] helped fill in the gaps between these commuter towns with lower-density settlements.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abu-Lughod|first=Janet L.|title=New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|year=1999|isbn=978-0-8166-3336-4}}</ref>

Starting in the early twentieth century, there was a large growth in population on the western edges of the city moving to the [[San Fernando Valley]] and out into the [[Conejo Valley]] in eastern [[Ventura County]]. Many working-class whites [[White flight|migrated]] to this area during the 1960s and 1970s out of East and Central Los Angeles.<ref>Gutierrez, David. ''The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003: 94.</ref> As a result, there was a large growth in population into the Conejo Valley and into Ventura County through the [[U.S. Route 101 in California|US 101]] corridor. Making the US 101 a full freeway in the 1960s and expansions that followed helped make [[commuting]] to Los Angeles easier and opened the way for development westward. Development in Ventura County and along the US 101 corridor remains controversial, with open-space advocates battling those who feel business development is necessary to economic growth.<ref>Curtiss, Aaron. "Bitter Land-Use Fights Seen For 101 Corridor Development." ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' November 20, 1993: B1.</ref> Although the area still has abundant amount of open space and land, almost all of it was put aside and mandated never to be developed as part of the master plan of each city. Because of this, the area which was once a relatively inexpensive area to buy real estate, saw rising real estate prices well into the 2000s.<ref>Olsen, Andy. "Local Home Prices Soar in May." ''Los Angeles Times'' June 23, 2003: B3.</ref> Median home prices in the Conejo Valley for instance, ranged from $700,000 to $2.2 million in 2003.<ref>Griggs, Gregory. "Local Homes Get Even Pricier." ''Los Angeles Times'' August 21, 2003: B1.</ref> According to [[Forbes]], "it's nearly impossible" to find reasonably priced real estate in California, and the prices will continue to increase.<ref name = forbes>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/05/28/playing-the-surge-in-california-real-estate/|title=Playing The Surge in California Real Estate|last=Gerber|first=Ross|date=May 28, 2014|magazine=Forbes|access-date=July 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715010513/http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/05/28/playing-the-surge-in-california-real-estate/|archive-date=July 15, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Los Angeles area continues to grow, principally on the periphery where new, cheaper, undeveloped areas are being sought.<ref name="Halle">{{cite book|last=Hale|first=David|title=New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society, and Culture: A Comparative View|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|year=2003|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newyorklosangele0000unse/page/181 181–183, 185]|isbn=978-0-226-31369-6|url=https://archive.org/details/newyorklosangele0000unse/page/181}}</ref> As such, in these areas, populations as well as housing prices exploded, although the housing bubble popped late in the decade of the 2000s. Riverside and San Bernardino counties, which contain large swaths of desert, attracted most of the population increase between 2000 and 2006. Growth continues not only outside the existing [[urbanization|urbanized]] area but also adjacent to existing development in the central areas.<ref name="Soja">{{cite book|last=Soja|first=Edward W.|title=Postmodern Geographies:The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory|publisher=Verso|location=London|year=1999|edition=5th|pages=[https://archive.org/details/postmoderngeogra0000soja/page/224 224–233]|chapter=Taking Los Angeles Apart|isbn=978-0-86091-936-0|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/postmoderngeogra0000soja/page/224}}</ref> As in virtually all US core cities, there is now vigorous residential development in the downtown area with both new buildings and renovation of former office buildings. The ''Los Angeles Downtown News'' keeps a list of ongoing development projects, updated every quarter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladowntownnews.com/development/|title=Development|website=Los Angeles Downtown News – The Voice of Downtown Los Angeles|access-date=June 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630075411/http://www.ladowntownnews.com/development/|archive-date=June 30, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Over the course of the 21st century, [[Droughts in California|droughts]] and [[List of California wildfires|wildfires]] have increased in frequency and the region's [[water security]] has become a development issue.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Boxall |first1=Bettina |last2=St. John |first2=Paige |date=November 10, 2018 |title=California's most destructive wildfire should not have come as a surprise |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-camp-fire-science-20181110-story.html |access-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-date=November 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111011829/http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-camp-fire-science-20181110-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Downtown Los Angeles-02.jpg|thumb|[[Downtown Los Angeles]]]]

===Major business districts and edge cities===
The traditional business district and historical downtown of Greater Los Angeles is [[Downtown Los Angeles]]. However, most commercial activity is found outside downtown Los Angeles in the [[edge cities]] of [[Century City]], [[Wilshire Boulevard]] in [[Koreatown]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], the [[Sunset Strip]] in [[West Hollywood]], [[Universal City, California|Universal City]], the [[Warner Center]] in [[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles|Woodland Hills]], and [[Sherman Oaks]] and [[Encino, Los Angeles|Encino]], notable for existing alongside extensive suburban development.

In fact, the Los Angeles area is considered a classic example of a metropolitan area that developed in such fashion.<ref name="garreauLA">{{cite book |last1=Garreau |first1=Joel |title=Edge City |date=1991 |pages=262–3 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |isbn=9780307801944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |access-date=June 25, 2019 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802004543/https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Furthermore, since the [[COVID-19 pandemic in California]] Downtown Los Angeles has experienced staggering commercial vacancy rates, urban blight, homelessness, drug use, and crime. Entire skyscrapers were reportedly sold for less than large estates in Bel Air.<ref name="LABizJournal">{{cite book |last1=Welk|first1=Hannah |title=DTLA Tower Sells for $80M |date=2024 |pages=262–3 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing |isbn=9780307801944 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |access-date=November 11, 2024 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802004543/https://books.google.com/books?id=_h4eF9H9UtQC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Within the broader [[county of Los Angeles]] and metro area, areas such as [[Downtown Long Beach]], [[Old Pasadena|downtown Pasadena]], downtown [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], and downtown [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], [[Downtown Santa Ana]], [[Downtown Anaheim]], [[Downtown Riverside]], [[Downtown San Bernardino]], downtown [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], and downtown [[Ontario, California|Ontario]] are notable.

===Identity===
Employment is not only in the [[downtown Los Angeles|downtown]] area, but consistently occurs outside the central core. As such, many people commute throughout the city and suburbs in various directions for their work and daily activities, with a large portion heading to the municipalities that are outside the city of Los Angeles.<ref name="Wolch">{{cite book|last=Wolch|first=Jennifer R.|author2=Manuel Pastor |author3=Peter Dreier |title=Up Against the Sprawl: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis|year=2004|isbn=978-0-8166-4298-4}}</ref>

Unlike most metropolitan areas, regional identity remains a contentious issue in the Greater Los Angeles area, with many residents not acknowledging any association with the region as a whole. For example, while Los Angeles County and [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] together make up the smaller MSA region, the two host many sub-areas that each have sharp demographic, political, and financial distinctions. South Orange County residents often attempt to be identified apart from Los Angeles although they make up the same metropolitan area. Also, while only 1.63% of Los Angeles residents commute to Orange County for work, over 6% of Orange County commuters head to Los Angeles for work.<ref>{{cite web|title=Orange County to County Commuting|url=http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/commute-maps/orancommute.pdf|work=Labor Market Information Division|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721071437/http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/commute-maps/orancommute.pdf|archive-date=July 21, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Western Riverside County and San Bernardino County have become commuter regions characteristic of other suburban counties throughout the nation. Residents in these counties often commute to Los Angeles County and Orange County for employment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Riverside County is 'extreme commute' king|url=http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/californian/0_39_333_31_05.txt|work=North County Times|access-date=August 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907195411/http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/californian/0_39_333_31_05.txt|archive-date=September 7, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Component counties, subregions, and cities==
[[File:LA at dawn.jpg|thumb|[[Los Angeles Basin]] at dawn]]

===Los Angeles County===
{{main|Los Angeles County, California}}
Los Angeles County, of which the City of Los Angeles is the county seat, is the most populous county in the United States and is home to over a quarter of all California residents.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb09-76.html |title=Newsroom: Population: Census Bureau Releases State and County Data Depicting Nation's Population Ahead of 2010 Census |publisher=Census.gov |access-date=August 23, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120824232857/http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/population/cb09-76.html |archive-date=August 24, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> The large size of the city of Los Angeles, as well as its history of annexing smaller towns, has made city boundaries in the central area of Los Angeles County quite complicated.<ref>[http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ Mapping L.A. – Los Angeles Times] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805060700/http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ |date=August 5, 2011 }}. Projects.latimes.com. Retrieved on July 29, 2013.</ref> Many cities are completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles and are often included in the city's areas despite being independent municipalities. For example, [[Santa Monica]] and [[Beverly Hills]] (which is almost completely surrounded by Los Angeles) are considered part of the Westside, while [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]] and [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]] are associated with South L.A. Adjacent areas that are outside the actual city boundaries of incorporated Los Angeles but border the city itself include the [[Santa Clarita Valley]], the [[San Gabriel Valley]], [[South Bay, Los Angeles|South Bay]], and the [[Gateway Cities]].

Despite the large footprint of the city of Los Angeles, a majority of the land area within Los Angeles County is unincorporated and under the primary jurisdiction of Los Angeles County. Much of this land, however, cannot be easily developed due to planning challenges presented by geographic features such as the [[Santa Monica Mountains]], the [[San Gabriel Mountains]], and the [[Mojave Desert]]. Actual land development in these regions occurs on the fringes of incorporated cities, some of which have been fully developed, such as the cities of [[Palmdale, California|Palmdale]] and [[Lancaster, California|Lancaster]].

====Subregions in Los Angeles County====
While there is not an official designation for the regions that comprise Greater Los Angeles, one authority, the ''Los Angeles Times'', divides the area into the following regions:<ref>{{cite news |title=Neighborhoods |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805060700/http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/ |archive-date=August 5, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Angeles National Forest|Angeles Forest]]
* [[Antelope Valley]]
* Central L.A. ([[Downtown Los Angeles]], [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], [[Mid-Wilshire]], etc.)
* [[East Los Angeles (region)|Eastside]]
* [[Gateway Cities]]/Harbor Area
* Northeast L.A. ([[Highland Park, Los Angeles|Highland Park]], [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles|Eagle Rock]], etc.)
* Northwest L.A. County (including the [[Santa Clarita Valley]])
* [[Pomona Valley]] (partially in San Bernardino County)
* [[San Fernando Valley]]
* [[San Gabriel Valley]]
* [[Santa Clarita Valley]]
* [[Santa Monica Mountains]] ([[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[Topanga, California|Topanga]], etc.)
* [[South Bay, Los Angeles|South Bay]] (incl. [[Palos Verdes Peninsula]], [[Beach Cities]])
* [[South Los Angeles]]
* Southeast Los Angeles County (including [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]] and [[Whittier, California|Whittier]], see [[Gateway Cities]])
* The Verdugos (including [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], [[Pasadena]] and the [[Crescenta Valley]])
* [[Westside (Los Angeles County)|Westside]]

Some of the above areas can be defined as being bounded by natural features such as mountains or the ocean; others are marked by city boundaries, freeways, or other constructed landmarks. For example, [[Downtown Los Angeles]] is the area of Los Angeles roughly enclosed by three freeways and one river: the [[Interstate 110 and State Route 110 (California)|Harbor Freeway (SR 110)]] to the west, the [[Santa Ana Freeway]] ([[U.S. Route 101 in California|US 101]]) to the north, the [[Los Angeles River]] to the east, and the [[Santa Monica Freeway]] ([[Interstate 10 in California|I-10]]) to the south.<ref name=LAT080807>Sharon Bernstein and David Pierson, "[http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-downtown8aug08,0,5462749,full.story L.A. moves toward more N.Y-style downtown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007142223/http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-downtown8aug08,0,5462749,full.story |date=October 7, 2008 }}", ''Los Angeles Times'', August 8, 2007.</ref> Meanwhile, the [[San Fernando Valley]] ("The Valley") is defined as the basin consisting of the part of Los Angeles and its suburbs that lie north-northwest of downtown and is ringed by mountains.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=San Fernando Valley|encyclopedia=Britannica Online Encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521119/San-Fernando-Valley|access-date=August 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602224649/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/521119/San-Fernando-Valley|archive-date=June 2, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Edge cities in Los Angeles County====
=====Central and Western area=====
*[[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]]/[[Century City]]
*[[Los Angeles International Airport|LAX]]/[[El Segundo, California|El Segundo]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Marina del Rey, California|Marina Del Rey]]/[[Culver City, California|Culver City]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[West Los Angeles]]
*[[Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles|Mid-Wilshire]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Miracle Mile, Los Angeles|Miracle Mile]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>

=====San Fernando Valley=====
*[[Burbank, California|Burbank]]/[[North Hollywood, Los Angeles|North Hollywood]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Sherman Oaks]]/[[Van Nuys, Los Angeles]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Warner Center, Los Angeles]]/West [[San Fernando Valley|Valley]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>

=====Elsewhere in Los Angeles County=====
*[[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*South Bay/[[Torrance, California|Torrance]]/[[Carson, California|Carson]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*South [[San Gabriel Valley|Valley]]/[[Covina]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Santa Clarita, California|Santa Clarita]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>

====Cities in Los Angeles County====
With a population of nearly 4.1 million people at the 2020 census, the City of [[Los Angeles]] is the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, and is the focal point of the Greater Los Angeles Area.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US0644000 |title=Los Angeles city, California |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-date=February 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215205838/https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US0644000 |url-status=live }}</ref> As an international center for finance, entertainment, media, culture, education, tourism, and science, Los Angeles is considered one of the world's most powerful and influential [[global cities]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/node/373401 |title=The Global Cities Index 2010 |magazine=Foreign Policy |year=2010 |access-date=October 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141202071827/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/node/373401 |archive-date=December 2, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

List of the 88 cities of Los Angeles County and six large CDPs by population at the 2020 U.S. census:
{{Colbegin|colwidth=15em}}
* [[Los Angeles]] (3,898,747)
* [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]] (466,742)
* [[Santa Clarita]] (228,673)
* [[Glendale, California|Glendale]] (196,543)
* [[Lancaster, California|Lancaster]] (173,516)
* [[Palmdale]] (169,450)
* [[Pomona, California|Pomona]] (151,713)
* [[Torrance, California|Torrance]] (147,067)
* [[Pasadena]] (138,699)
* [[East Los Angeles]] CDP (118,786)
* [[Downey, California|Downey]] (114,355)
* [[West Covina]] (109,501)
* [[El Monte, California|El Monte]] (109,450)
* [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]] (107,762)
* [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] (107,337)
* [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]] (102,773)
* [[Compton, California|Compton]] (95,740)
* [[Carson, California|Carson]] (95,558)
* [[Santa Monica]] (93,076)
* [[South Gate, California|South Gate]] (92,726)
* [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]] (88,083)
* [[Whittier, California|Whittier]] (87,306)
* [[Alhambra, California|Alhambra]] (82,868)
* [[Lakewood, California|Lakewood]] (82,496)
* [[Bellflower, California|Bellflower]] (79,190)
* [[Baldwin Park, California|Baldwin Park]] (72,176)
* [[Redondo Beach, California|Redondo Beach]] (71,576)
* [[Lynwood, California|Lynwood]] (67,265)
* [[Montebello, California|Montebello]] (62,640)
* [[Pico Rivera]] (62,088)
* [[Florence-Graham]] CDP (61,983)
* [[Monterey Park, California|Monterey Park]] (61,096)
* [[Gardena, California|Gardena]] (61,027)
* [[Arcadia, California|Arcadia]] (56,681)
* [[South Whittier]] CDP (56,415)
* [[Diamond Bar]] (55,072)
* [[Huntington Park, California|Huntington Park]] (54,883)
* [[Hacienda Heights]] CDP (54,191)
* [[Paramount, California|Paramount]] (53,733)
* [[Glendora, California|Glendora]] (52,558)
* [[Covina]] (51,268)
* [[Rosemead]] (51,185)
* [[Azusa, California|Azusa]] (50,000)
* [[Cerritos, California|Cerritos]] (49,578)
* [[Rowland Heights]] CDP (48,231)
* [[La Mirada, California|La Mirada]] (48,008)
* [[Altadena]] CDP (42,846)
* [[Rancho Palos Verdes, California|Rancho Palos Verdes]] (42,287)
* [[Culver City, California|Culver City]] (40,779)
* [[San Gabriel, California|San Gabriel]] (39,568)
* [[Bell Gardens, California|Bell Gardens]] (39,501)
* [[La Puente, California|La Puente]] (38,062)
* [[Monrovia, California|Monrovia]] (37,931)
* [[Claremont, California|Claremont]] (37,266)
* [[Temple City, California|Temple City]] (36,494)
* [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] (35,757)
* [[Manhattan Beach, California|Manhattan Beach]] (35,506)
* [[San Dimas, California|San Dimas]] (34,924)
* [[Bell, California|Bell]] (33,559)
* [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] (32,701)
* [[Lawndale, California|Lawndale]] (31,807)
* [[La Verne, California|La Verne]] (31,334)
* [[Walnut, California|Walnut]] (28,430)
* [[South Pasadena, California|South Pasadena]] (26,943)
* [[Maywood, California|Maywood]] (25,138)
* [[San Fernando, California|San Fernando]] (23,946)
* [[Calabasas, California|Calabasas]] (23,241)
* [[Cudahy, California|Cudahy]] (22,811)
* [[Duarte, California|Duarte]] (21,727)
* [[Lomita, California|Lomita]] (20,921)
* [[La Cañada Flintridge, California|La Cañada Flintridge]] (20,573)
* [[Agoura Hills, California|Agoura Hills]] (20,299)
* [[Hermosa Beach, California|Hermosa Beach]] (19,728)
* [[South El Monte, California|South El Monte]] (19,567)
* [[Santa Fe Springs, California|Santa Fe Springs]] (19,219)
* [[El Segundo, California|El Segundo]] (17,272)
* [[Artesia, California|Artesia]] (16,395)
* [[Hawaiian Gardens, California|Hawaiian Gardens]] (14,149)
* [[Palos Verdes Estates, California|Palos Verdes Estates]] (13,347)
* [[San Marino, California|San Marino]] (12,513)
* [[Commerce, California|Commerce]] (12,378)
* [[Signal Hill, California|Signal Hill]] (11,848)
* [[Sierra Madre, California|Sierra Madre]] (11,268)
* [[Malibu, California|Malibu]] (10,654)
* [[Rolling Hills Estates, California|Rolling Hills Estates]] (8,280)
* [[Westlake Village, California|Westlake Village]] (8,029)
* [[La Habra Heights, California|La Habra Heights]] (5,682)
* [[Avalon, California|Avalon]] (3,460)
* [[Rolling Hills, California|Rolling Hills]] (1,739)
* [[Hidden Hills, California|Hidden Hills]] (1,725)
* [[Irwindale, California|Irwindale]] (1,472)
* [[Bradbury, California|Bradbury]] (921)
* [[Industry, California|Industry]] (264)
* [[Vernon, California|Vernon]] (222){{colend}}

===Orange County===
{{main|Orange County, California}}

[[File:The City of Newport Beach July 2014 photo D Ramey Logan.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]] in [[Orange County, California|Orange County]]]]
Orange County was originally an agricultural area dependent on citrus crops, avocados, and oil extraction, and became a [[bedroom community]] for Los Angeles when [[Interstate 5 in California|I–5, the Santa Ana Freeway]], linked it to the city in the 1950s. The growth of Los Angeles initially fueled population growth in Orange County, but by the 1970s it had become an important economic center in its own right, with tourism and electronics industries, among others. Today, Orange County is known for its tourist attractions, such as the [[Disneyland Resort]], [[Knott's Berry Farm]], its several pristine beaches and coastline, and its wealthier areas, featured in television shows such as ''[[The O.C.]]'' None of the original downtowns serves as the central urban core for the county, but there are important clusters of business and culture in [[Downtown Santa Ana]] and in three [[edge cities]]: the [[Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city]] from the [[Disneyland Resort]] to the [[Orange Crush interchange]] ([[Orange, California|Orange]], Santa Ana), the [[South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city]] (Santa Ana, [[Costa Mesa]], [[Irvine, California|Irvine]]), and Irvine's [[Irvine Spectrum Center|Spectrum]] edge city.

[[File:Los angeles MSA historical population.png|thumb|Population of Los Angeles and Orange Counties since 1890]]

Orange County is sometimes figuratively divided into "North County" and "South County", with North Orange County including cities such as [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], [[Fullerton, California|Fullerton]], and [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]], and is the older, more ethnically diverse and more densely built-up area both geographically and culturally closer to Los Angeles. South County, defined variously as beginning with either Costa Mesa<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.orangecoastrealestate.com/south-orange-county-real-estate/|title=South Orange County Real Estate foreclosures – South Orange County MLS homes & Condos For sale|website=Orange Coast Real Estate|access-date=June 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622002902/http://www.orangecoastrealestate.com/south-orange-county-real-estate/|archive-date=June 22, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> or Irvine<ref>{{cite news |title=Vacanies Are Up in South OC Offices |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33114305/south_oc_definition_la_times/ |access-date=June 22, 2019 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 1, 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624075116/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33114305/south_oc_definition_la_times/ |archive-date=June 24, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> and includes cities to the east and south such as [[Laguna Beach]], [[Mission Viejo]], [[Newport Beach]], and [[San Clemente]], is more residential, affluent, recently developed, and has a mostly white population. Irvine is an exception, as it is a center of employment and is ethnically diverse. A growing alternative dividing marker between north and south is the [[El Toro Y]] interchange. [[Orange Coast]] or South Coast area is defined instead as consisting of some or all of the cities lining the coast.

====Subregions in Orange County====
*[[Orange County, California#Geography|North Orange County]]
*[[Orange County, California#Geography|South Orange County]]

====Edge cities in Orange County====
*[[Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Fullerton, California|Fullerton]]/[[La Habra]]/[[Brea, California|Brea]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Irvine Spectrum]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Newport Center, Newport Beach, California|Newport Center]]/[[Fashion Island]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[San Clemente]]/[[Laguna Niguel, California|Laguna Niguel]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Westminster, California|Westminster]]/[[Huntington Beach]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>

====Cities in Orange County====
List of the 34 cities in Orange County by population at the 2020 census:
{{Colbegin|colwidth=19em}}
* [[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]] (346,824)
* [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]] (310,227)
* [[Irvine, California|Irvine]] (307,670)
* [[Huntington Beach]] (198,711)
* [[Garden Grove, California|Garden Grove]] (171,949)
* [[Fullerton, California|Fullerton]] (143,617)
* [[Orange, California|Orange]] (139,911)
* [[Costa Mesa]] (111,918)
* [[Mission Viejo]] (93,653)
* [[Westminster, California|Westminster]] (90,911)
* [[Lake Forest, California|Lake Forest]] (85,858)
* [[Newport Beach]] (85,239)
* [[Buena Park, California|Buena Park]] (84,034)
* [[Tustin]] (80,276)
* [[Yorba Linda]] (68,336)
* [[Laguna Niguel]] (64,355)
* [[San Clemente]] (64,293)
* [[La Habra]] (63,097)
* [[Fountain Valley, California|Fountain Valley]] (57,047)
* [[Aliso Viejo]] (52,176)
* [[Placentia, California|Placentia]] (51,824)
* [[Cypress, California|Cypress]] (50,151)
* [[Rancho Santa Margarita, California|Rancho Santa Margarita]] (47,949)
* [[Brea, California|Brea]] (47,325)
* [[Stanton, California|Stanton]] (37,962)
* [[San Juan Capistrano, California|San Juan Capistrano]] (35,196)
* [[Dana Point, California|Dana Point]] (33,107)
* [[Laguna Hills, California|Laguna Hills]] (31,374)
* [[Seal Beach, California|Seal Beach]] (25,242)
* [[Laguna Beach, California|Laguna Beach]] (23,032)
* [[Laguna Woods, California|Laguna Woods]] (17,644)
* [[La Palma, California|La Palma]] (15,581)
* [[Los Alamitos, California|Los Alamitos]] (11,780)
* [[Villa Park, California|Villa Park]] (5,843)
{{colend}}

===Inland Empire===
[[File:From San Bernardino Mtns.jpg|thumb|[[San Bernardino Valley]]]]
{{main|Inland Empire}}

The Inland Empire, consisting of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, contains fast-growing suburbs of the region, with a large to majority percentage of the working population commuting to either Los Angeles or Orange Counties for work. Originally an important center for [[citrus production]], the region became an important industrial area by the early 20th century.<ref name="citrus">{{Cite journal | last1= Ruther | first1= Walter | last2= Calavan | first2= E. Clair | last3= Carman | first3= Glen E. | title= The Origins of Citrus Research in California | publisher= Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, [[University of California]] | year= 1989 | url= http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/citrus_history.pdf | journal= The Citrus Industry | volume= V | issue= Chapter 5 | location= Oakland | access-date= August 21, 2007 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070808175051/http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/citrus_history.pdf | archive-date= August 8, 2007 | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Petrix">{{cite news | last= Petrix | first= Mark | title= From two orange trees Sprang an Empire | date= October 30, 2007 | url= http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_7335226 | work= [[Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] | access-date= November 15, 2007 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080324153335/http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_7335226 | archive-date= March 24, 2008 | df= mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Sorba">{{cite news | last= Sorba | first= Michael | title= Rails reach the Inland Empire | date= October 30, 2007 | url= http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_7334178 | work= [[Inland Valley Daily Bulletin]] | access-date= November 27, 2007 | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071208035515/http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_7334178 | archive-date= December 8, 2007 | df= mdy-all }}</ref> The Inland Empire also became a key transportation center following the completion of [[U.S. Route 66 (California)|Route 66]], and later [[Interstate 10 in California|Interstate 10]]. With the post-World War II economic boom leading to rapid development in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, land developers bulldozed acres of agricultural land to build suburbs in order to accommodate the Los Angeles area's expanding population.<ref name="citrus" /> The development of a regional [[Southern California freeways|freeway system]] facilitated the expansion of suburbs and human migration linking the Inland Empire and rest of Greater Los Angeles. Despite being primarily suburban, the Inland Empire is also home to important warehousing, shipping, logistics and retail industries, centered on the subregion's major cities of [[Riverside, California|Riverside]], [[San Bernardino]] and [[Ontario, California|Ontario]].

While the Inland Empire is sometimes defined as the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, the eastern undeveloped, desert portions of these counties are not considered to be part of Greater Los Angeles. The state of California defines this area to include the cities of [[Adelanto]], [[Apple Valley, California|Apple Valley]], and [[Victorville]] to the north, the Riverside–San Diego county line to the south, and the towns of [[Anza, California|Anza]], [[Idyllwild]], and [[Lucerne Valley]], along with the [[San Bernardino National Forest]] to the east.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitcalifornia.com/media/pages/getting_around/maps/INLAND-EMPIRE.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814024123/http://www.visitcalifornia.com/media/pages/getting_around/maps/INLAND-EMPIRE.pdf|url-status=dead|title=State of California map of Inland Empire|archivedate=August 14, 2012}}</ref>

Additionally, the southwest portion of Riverside County, centered on the city of [[Temecula]] is more economically linked to San Diego county, with its growth largely being driven by migrants from San Diego seeking more affordable housing similar to how northwestern Riverside county's growth was driven by migrants from Orange County and Los Angeles seeking more affordable housing.<ref>{{cite book | author1 = Robert E. Lang | author2 = Jennifer B. LeFurgy | date = 1 October 2007 | title = Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities | publisher = Brookings Institution Press | pages = 169– | isbn = 978-0-8157-5112-0 | oclc = 1005941809 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vvnlW-9NKrUC&pg=PA169}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Downey |first=Dave |date=8 March 2011 |title=REGION: Riverside County's population jumps by 42 percent in last decade |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-region-riverside-countys-population-jumps-by-42-2011mar08-story.html |work=San Diego Union-Tribune |location= |access-date=4 November 2021 }}<br/>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=8 March 2011 |title=2000: Temecula's growth hailed, decried |url=https://www.pe.com/2011/03/08/2000-temeculas-growth-hailed-decried/ |work=Press-Enterprise |location=Riverside |access-date=4 November 2021 |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105040315/https://www.pe.com/2011/03/08/2000-temeculas-growth-hailed-decried/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

However, with clear northern and southern limits to expansion, the region's urban eastern boundaries have become increasingly nebulous as [[suburban sprawl]] continues to spread out to form a unified whole with Los Angeles, with further development encroaching past the [[San Bernardino Mountains|San Bernardino]] and [[San Jacinto Mountains]] and into the outlying desert areas. As a result, the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles can now be extended to include [[Barstow, California|Barstow]] and surrounding towns in the northeast, the [[Morongo Basin]] in the east-central including [[Yucca Valley]] and [[Twentynine Palms]], and the [[Coachella Valley]] cities in the southeast. This interconnectivity, provided by one of the most extensive freeway systems in the world, as well as economic, social and media ties, has blended boundaries between these regions and the urbanized Los Angeles and Inland Empire areas.<ref name="Rosenblatt">{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| last = Rosenblatt| first = Susannah| title = 'Inland' for sure, 'Empire' maybe: Where's the boundary?| work = Los Angeles Times| access-date = July 8, 2009| date = November 27, 2006| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-27-me-inlandempire27-story.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140108051008/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/27/local/me-inlandempire27| archive-date = January 8, 2014| url-status = live}}</ref>

====Subregions in the Inland Empire====
* [[High Desert (California)|High Desert]] (includes [[Antelope Valley]] in Los Angeles County plus [[Victor Valley]] and [[Morongo Basin]])
* [[Low Desert]] ([[Coachella Valley]], [[Palm Springs]] and [[Palm Desert]] area)
* [[San Bernardino Mountains]] ([[Lake Arrowhead, California|Lake Arrowhead]] and [[Big Bear Lake, California|Big Bear Lake]] area)
* Northwest [[Riverside County]] ([[Corona, California|Corona]], [[Norco, California|Norco]], [[Jurupa Valley]], and [[Riverside, California|Riverside]] area)
* Moreno Valley ([[Moreno Valley]] and [[Perris, California|Perris]])
* [[Pomona Valley]] ([[Pomona, California|Pomona]], [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]], [[Chino, California|Chino]], [[Eastvale, California|Eastvale]], [[Upland, California|Upland]], [[Claremont, California|Claremont]], [[Montclair, California|Montclair]], [[La Verne, California|La Verne]] and [[Ontario, California|Ontario]] area. Partially in Los Angeles County)
* [[San Bernardino Valley]] ([[San Bernardino]], [[Fontana, California|Fontana]], [[Rialto, California|Rialto]], [[Colton, California|Colton]], [[Loma Linda]], [[Highland, California|Highland]], and [[Redlands, California|Redlands]] area)
* [[San Gorgonio Pass]] ([[Banning, California|Banning]], [[Yucaipa]], [[Calimesa]], and [[Beaumont, California|Beaumont]] area)
* [[San Jacinto Valley]] ([[Hemet]] and [[San Jacinto, California|San Jacinto]] area)
* [[Temecula Valley]] ([[Lake Elsinore, California|Lake Elsinore]], [[Menifee, California|Menifee]], [[Murrieta]], [[Wildomar]], and [[Temecula]] area)

====Edge cities in the Inland Empire====
*[[Ontario Airport]]/[[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]]<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[Riverside, California|Riverside]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>
*[[San Bernardino]] (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>

====Cities in Riverside County ====
{{main|Riverside County, California}}

List of the 28 cities of Riverside County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:

{{Colbegin|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Riverside, California|Riverside]] (314,998)
* [[Moreno Valley]] (208,634)
* [[Corona, California|Corona]] (157,136)
* [[Murrieta]] (110,949)
* [[Temecula]] (110,003)
* [[Jurupa Valley]] (105,053)
* [[Menifee, California|Menifee]] (102,527)
* [[Hemet]] (89,833)
* [[Indio, California|Indio]] (89,137)
* [[Perris]] (78,700)
* [[Lake Elsinore, California|Lake Elsinore]] (70,265)
* [[Eastvale, California|Eastvale]] (69,757)
* [[San Jacinto, California|San Jacinto]] (53,898)
* [[Beaumont, California|Beaumont]] (53,036)
* [[Cathedral City, California|Cathedral City]] (51,493)
* [[Palm Desert]] (51,163)
* [[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]] (44,575)
* [[Coachella, California|Coachella]] (41,941)
* [[La Quinta, California|La Quinta]] (37,558)
* [[Wildomar, California|Wildomar]] (36,875)
* [[Desert Hot Springs, California|Desert Hot Springs]] (32,512)
* [[Banning, California|Banning]] (29,505)
* [[Norco, California|Norco]] (26,316)
* [[Blythe, California|Blythe]] (18,317)
* [[Rancho Mirage, California|Rancho Mirage]] (16,999)
* [[Canyon Lake, California|Canyon Lake]] (11,082)
* [[Calimesa, California|Calimesa]] (10,026)
* [[Indian Wells, California|Indian Wells]] (4,757){{colend}}

==== Cities and towns in San Bernardino County ====
{{main|San Bernardino County, California}}

List of the 24 cities and incorporated towns of San Bernardino County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:{{Colbegin|colwidth=22em}}
* [[San Bernardino]] (222,101)
* [[Fontana, California|Fontana]] (208,393)
* [[Ontario, California|Ontario]] (175,265)
* [[Rancho Cucamonga, California|Rancho Cucamonga]] (174,453)
* [[Victorville, California|Victorville]] (134,810)
* [[Rialto, California|Rialto]] (104,026)
* [[Hesperia, California|Hesperia]] (99,818)
* [[Chino, California|Chino]] (91,403)
* [[Upland, California|Upland]] (79,040)
* [[Chino Hills, California|Chino Hills]] (78,411)
* [[Redlands, California|Redlands]] (73,168)
* [[Apple Valley, California|Apple Valley]] (75,791)
* [[Highland, California|Highland]] (56,999)
* [[Yucaipa]] (54,542)
* [[Colton, California|Colton]] (53,909)
* [[Adelanto, California|Adelanto]] (38,046)
* [[Montclair, California|Montclair]] (37,865)
* [[Twentynine Palms, California|Twentynine Palms]] (28,065)
* [[Barstow, California|Barstow]] (25,415)
* [[Loma Linda, California|Loma Linda]] (24,791)
* [[Yucca Valley, California|Yucca Valley]] (21,738)
* [[Grand Terrace, California|Grand Terrace]] (13,150)
* [[Big Bear Lake, California|Big Bear Lake]] (5,046)
* [[Needles, California|Needles]] (4,931)
{{colend}}

====Sparsely populated areas in the Inland Empire====
While the above areas are included in the regional definition of Greater Los Angeles, the [[U.S. Census Bureau]] defines Greater Los Angeles, or officially, the Los Angeles–Long Beach Combined Statistical Area, to include both the above-mentioned areas along with the entirety of San Bernardino and Riverside counties.<ref name=OMB_10-02>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/bulletins/b10-02.pdf|title=OMB Bulletin No. 10-02: Update of Statistical Area Definitions and Guidance on Their Uses|publisher=[[United States Office of Management and Budget]]|date=December 1, 2009|access-date=August 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121004722/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/bulletins/b10-02.pdf|archive-date=January 21, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> These areas are sparsely developed and are part of the [[Mojave Desert|Mojave]] and [[Colorado Desert]]s. To the north, [[Interstate 15 in California|Interstate 15]] crosses desolate desert landscape after passing Barstow, linking Greater Los Angeles with [[Las Vegas]], with [[Baker, California|Baker]] being the only significant outpost along the route. To the east, lie the [[Mojave National Preserve]] and [[Joshua Tree National Park]] along with the towns of [[Needles, California|Needles]] and [[Blythe, California|Blythe]] on the California-Arizona border.

===Ventura County===
[[File:VenturaNW.jpg|thumb|The Ventura coast]]
{{main|Ventura County, California}}
Ventura County is mostly suburban and rural and also has developed primarily through the growth of Los Angeles. Central and southern Ventura County formerly consisted of small towns along the Pacific Coast until the expansion of [[U.S. Route 101 in California|U.S. Route 101]] drew in commuters from the San Fernando Valley. Master-planned cities soon began developing, and the county became increasingly urbanized. The northern part of the county, however, remains largely undeveloped and is mostly within the [[Los Padres National Forest]].

====Subregions in Ventura County====
* [[Conejo Valley]]
* [[Oxnard Plain]]

====Edge cities in Ventura County====
*[[Ventura, California|Ventura]]/Coastal Plain (emerging edge city as of 1991)<ref name="garreauLA"/>

====Cities in Ventura County ====
{{see also|Ventura County, California}}List of the 10 cities of Ventura County by population at the 2020 U.S. census:{{Colbegin|colwidth=22em}}
* [[Oxnard]] (202,063)
* [[Thousand Oaks]] (126,966)
* [[Simi Valley]] (126,356)
* [[Ventura, California|Ventura]] (110,763)
* [[Camarillo]] (70,741)
* [[Moorpark]] (36,284)
* [[Santa Paula]] (30,657)
* [[Port Hueneme]] (21,954)
* [[Fillmore, California|Fillmore]] (16,419)
* [[Ojai]] (7,637)
{{Colend}}

=== Urban areas within ===
[[File:Los Angeles CSA urban areas.svg|thumb|Urban areas within the Los Angeles combined statistical area as of the 2020 census. (Far eastern portions of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are cropped out).
{{legend|#bf321f|Urban areas}}
{{legend|#fcf7d1|Counties in the Los Angeles MSA}}
{{legend|#fbf499|Counties in the Los Angeles CSA but not the MSA}}]]
At the core of the Los Angeles–Long Beach combined statistical area (CSA) lies the Los Angeles–[[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]–[[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], CA [[urban area]], the second most populous in the United States.<ref name="urban area" /> Within the boundaries of the CSA the Census Bureau defines 30 other urban areas as well, two of which ([[Riverside, California|Riverside]]–[[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]] and [[Oxnard, California|Oxnard]]–[[Ventura, California|Ventura]]) form the core of their own metropolitan areas separate from the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area. Urban areas situated primarily outside the Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area but within the CSA are identified with a cross (†) in the table below.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Urban area
! Population<br />(2020 census)
! Land area<br />(sq mi)
! Land area<br />(km<sup>2</sup>)
! Density<br />(population / sq mi)
! Density<br />(population / km<sup>2</sup>)
|-
| [[Los Angeles]]–[[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]–[[Anaheim, California|Anaheim]], CA ||   13,200,897  ||   1,636.83  ||   4,239.36  ||   7,476.28  || 2,886.61
|-
| [[Riverside, California|Riverside]]–[[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]], CA †||   2,276,703  ||   608.56  ||   1,576.17  ||   3,741.10  || 1,444.45
|-
| [[Mission Viejo, California|Mission Viejo]]–[[Lake Forest, California|Lake Forest]]–[[Laguna Niguel, California|Laguna Niguel]], CA ||   646,843  ||   163.63  ||   423.81  ||   3,953.02  || 1,526.27
|-
| [[Temecula, California|Temecula]]–[[Murrieta, California|Murrieta]]–[[Menifee, California|Menifee]], CA †||   528,991  ||   150.47  ||   389.73  ||   3,515.49  || 1,357.34
|-
| [[Oxnard, California|Oxnard]]–[[Ventura, California|San Buenaventura (Ventura)]], CA †||   376,117  ||   76.61  ||   198.41  ||   4,909.70  || 1,895.65
|-
| [[Indio, California|Indio]]–[[Palm Desert, California|Palm Desert]]–[[Palm Springs, California|Palm Springs]], CA †||   361,075  ||   151.82  ||   393.22  ||   2,378.26  || 918.25
|-
| [[Palmdale, California|Palmdale]]–[[Lancaster, California|Lancaster]], CA ||   359,559  ||   84.78  ||   219.59  ||   4,240.90  || 1,637.42
|-
| [[Victorville, California|Victorville]]–[[Hesperia, California|Hesperia]]–[[Apple Valley, California|Apple Valley]], CA †||   355,816  ||   131.77  ||   341.29  ||   2,700.19  || 1,042.55
|-
| [[Santa Clarita, California|Santa Clarita]], CA ||   278,031  ||   77.85  ||   201.62  ||   3,571.56  || 1,378.99
|-
| [[Thousand Oaks, California|Thousand Oaks]], CA †||   213,986  ||   80.20  ||   207.71  ||   2,668.26  || 1,030.22
|-
| [[Hemet, California|Hemet]], CA †||   173,194 ||   37.06  ||   95.98  ||   4,673.61  || 1,804.49
|-
| [[Simi Valley, California|Simi Valley]], CA †||   127,364  ||   31.63  ||   81.91  ||   4,027.01  || 1,554.84
|-
| [[Camarillo, California|Camarillo]], CA †||   76,338  ||   22.48  ||   58.22  ||   3,395.98  || 1,311.19
|-
| [[Desert Hot Springs, California|Desert Hot Springs]], CA †||   45,767  ||   14.08  ||   36.47  ||   3,250.66  || 1,255.09
|-
| [[Santa Paula, California|Santa Paula]], CA †||   30,675  ||   4.96  ||   12.86  ||   6,179.04  || 2,385.74
|-
| [[Barstow, California|Barstow]], CA †||   30,522  ||   12.38  ||   32.07  ||   2,465.05  || 951.76
|-
| [[Crestline, California|Crestline]]–[[Lake Arrowhead, California|Lake Arrowhead]], CA †||   22,272  ||   16.85  ||   43.64  ||   1,321.70  || 510.31
|-
| [[Yucca Valley, California|Yucca Valley]], CA †||   18,293  ||   11.33  ||   29.36  ||   1,613.95  || 623.15
|-
| [[Big Bear City, California|Big Bear]], CA †||   16,498  ||   15.93  ||   41.26  ||   1,035.73  || 399.90
|-
| [[Fillmore, California|Fillmore]], CA †||   16,397  ||   2.63  ||   6.82  ||   6,227.80  || 2,404.57
|-
| [[Twentynine Palms, California|Twentynine Palms]], CA †||   12,881  ||   6.82  ||   17.66  ||   1,889.13  || 729.40
|-
| [[Blythe, California|Blythe]], CA–AZ †||   11,780  ||   6.20  ||   16.06  ||   1,899.83  || 733.53
|-
| [[Twentynine Palms, California|Twentynine Palms North]], CA †||   11,665  ||   2.77  ||   7.18  ||   4,206.03  || 1,623.96
|-
| [[Fort Irwin, California|Fort Irwin]], CA †||   8,096  ||   3.62  ||   9.37  ||   2,238.42  || 864.26
|-
| [[Mecca, California|Mecca]], CA †||   6,875  ||   0.63  ||   1.62  ||   10,979.30  || 4,239.13
|-
| [[Needles, California|Needles]], CA–AZ †||   6,739  ||   5.55  ||   14.38  ||   1,213.99  || 468.73
|-
| [[Silver Lakes, California|Silver Lakes]], CA †||   5,908  ||   2.12  ||   5.49  ||   2,789.52  || 1,077.04
|-
| [[Running Springs, California|Running Springs]], CA †||   5,313  ||   3.64  ||   9.44  ||   1,458.40  || 563.09
|-
| [[Joshua Tree, California|Joshua Tree]], CA †||   4,370  ||   3.80  ||   9.85  ||   1,149.11  || 443.67
|-
| [[Wrightwood, California|Wrightwood]], CA †||   3,927  ||   1.38  ||   3.59  ||   2,835.51  || 1,094.80
|-
| [[Avalon, California|Avalon]], CA ||   3,362  ||   1.19  ||   3.08  ||   2,826.47  || 1,091.31
|}

==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===
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|-
|[[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]].

==Ethnic enclaves==
{{Further|List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles}}

Ethnic enclaves like [[Chinatown, Los Angeles, California|Chinatown]], the [[Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles|Byzantine-Latino Quarter]], [[Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles, California|Historic Filipinotown]], [[Little Saigon]], [[Little Armenia, Los Angeles, California|Little Armenia]], [[Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles, California|Little Ethiopia]], [[Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles|Little Bangladesh]],  Little Moscow (in [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]]), [[Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California|Little Tokyo]], Croatian Place and Via Italia in [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]], several [[Koreatown, Los Angeles, California|Koreatown]]s, [[Tehrangeles]] in [[West Los Angeles]], the [[Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley]] and [[Thai Town, Los Angeles, California|Thai Town]] provide examples of the [[Multilingualism|polyglot]] [[multiculturalism|multicultural]] character of Los Angeles. Below is a list of many ethnic enclaves present in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
{| class="wikitable"
!Ethnic Enclave Name
!Neighborhood
!Ethnicity Represented
!Official Recognition or Dedicated District
|-
! colspan="4" |East Asian Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Chinatown, Los Angeles|'''Chinatown''']]
|[[Chinatown, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="7" |[[Chinese Americans]], [[Taiwanese Americans]], & [[Hong Kong Americans]]; as well as many other [[Asian Americans]]
|Yes, 1938
|-
|[[Area code 626|626]]/SGV
|[[Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley]]
|No
|-
| rowspan="3" |
| [[Cerritos, California]]
|No
|-
| [[Irvine, California]] & [[Tustin, California]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.menuism.com/blog/irvine-ca-chinese-dining/|title=How Irvine, CA Became a Chinese Dining Destination|first=David R.|last=Chan|date=May 15, 2017|website=Menuism Dining Blog|access-date=April 16, 2023|archive-date=August 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815173119/https://www.menuism.com/blog/irvine-ca-chinese-dining/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|No
|-
| [[Chino Hills, California]] & [[Eastvale, California]]
|No
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Little Taipei]]
|[[Monterey Park, California]]
| rowspan="2" |No
|-
|[[Rowland Heights, California|Rowland Heights]], & [[Hacienda Heights, California]]
|-
| rowspan="1" |'''[[Little Saigon]]'''
|[[Little Saigon, Orange County]], [[Westminster, California|Westminster]], [[Garden Grove, California|Garden Grove]], & [[Fountain Valley, California]]
| rowspan="1" |[[Vietnamese Americans]]
|Yes, 1988
|-
|'''[[Koreatown]]'''
|[[Koreatown, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Korean Americans in Greater Los Angeles|Korean Americans]]
|Yes, 2008
|-
|[[Koreatown, Garden Grove|'''Orange County Koreatown''']]
|[[Koreatown, Garden Grove]]
|Yes, 2019
|-
| North Orange County Koreantown<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/tn-wknd-et-0326-korean-businesses-20170325-story.html|title=O.C.'s Koreatown: Buena Park draws residents and businesses from L.A.|date=March 24, 2017|website=Daily Pilot|author-first1=Alex|author-last1=Chan|author-first2=Bryce|author-last2=Alderton|url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://voiceofoc.org/2022/08/a-vibrant-korean-community-is-thriving-in-north-o-c/ | title=A Vibrant Korean Community is Thriving in North O.C. | date=August 26, 2022 }}</ref>
|[[Buena Park, California|Buena Park]], [[Fullerton, California|Fullerton]], & [[La Mirada, California|La Mirada]]
|Yes, 2023 <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ocregister.com/2023/10/11/buena-park-unveils-first-koreatown-sign-near-the-entrance-of-the-source-mall/ | title=Buena Park unveils first Koreatown sign near the entrance of the Source mall | date=October 13, 2023 }}</ref>
|-
|[[Little Tokyo, Los Angeles|'''Little Tokyo''']]
|[[Little Tokyo, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Japanese Americans]]
|Yes, 1995
|-
|'''[[Sawtelle Japantown|Little Osaka/Sawtelle Japantown]]'''
|[[Sawtelle, Los Angeles]]
|Yes, 2015
|-
|Japan's 48th prefecture<ref>Blackmore, Willy. "Top 10: Japanese Noodles Shops in Torrance." L.A. Weekly. Retrieved on May 10, 2013.</ref>
|[[Torrance, California|Torrance]], & [[Gardena, California]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.costamesahistory.org/history/japanese-costa-mesans-1920-1942/|title=Japanese Costa Mesans, 1920-1942|date=May 7, 2019|website=Costa Mesa Historical Society}}</ref>
|No
|-
|Terminal Island Japanese Fishing Village
|[[Terminal Island]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/japanese-american-history-at-terminal-island/|title=Japanese-American History at Terminal Island|website=Los Angeles Conservancy}}</ref>
| rowspan="1" |Historically [[Japanese Americans]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |South East Asian Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|'''[[Filipinotown]]'''
|[[Historic Filipinotown, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="8" |[[Filipino Americans]]
|Yes, 2002
|-
|[[ManilaTown|Manilatown]]
|[[Downtown Riverside]]
|No
|-
|[[Little Manila]]
|[[Carson, California]]
|No
|-
| rowspan="5" |
|[[Panorama City, Los Angeles|Panorama City]], [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles|Eagle Rock]], & [[Glendale, California|Glendale]]
|No
|-
|[[West Covina]]
|No
|-
|[[Cerritos, California]]
|No
|-
|[[Rancho Cucamonga]]
|No
|-
|Westside [[Long Beach, California]]
|No
|-
|[[Thai Town, Los Angeles|'''Thai Town''']]
|[[Thai Town, Los Angeles]]
|[[Thai Americans]]
|Yes, October 27, 1999
|-
|[[Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California|'''Cambodia Town''']]
|[[Cambodia Town, Long Beach, California]]
|[[Cambodian Americans]]
|Yes, 2007
|-
! colspan="4" |South Asian Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|'''[[Little India]]'''
|[[Little India, Artesia, California]]
|[[Indian Americans]]
|Yes
|-
|[[Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles|'''Little Bangladesh''']]
|[[Little Bangladesh, Los Angeles]]
|[[Bangladeshi Americans]]
|Yes, 2010
|-
! colspan="4" |Middle Eastern Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Little Armenia, Los Angeles|'''Little Armenia''']]
|[[Little Armenia, Los Angeles]]
|[[Armenian Americans]]
|Yes, October 6, 2000
|-
|Arabia Street
|[[West Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Middle Eastern Americans]]
| rowspan="2" |No
|-
|
|[[Reseda, Los Angeles]]
|-
|[[Little Arabia]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Anaheim, California]]
|[[Egyptian Americans|Egyptian American]], [[Syrian Americans|Syrian American]], [[Lebanese Americans|Lebanese American]], & [[Yemeni Americans|Yemeni American]]
|Yes, August 24, 2022<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ocregister.com/2022/08/25/anaheims-little-arabia-district-gets-official-recognition-after-years-of-trying/ | title=Anaheim's Little Arabia district gets official recognition after years of trying | date=August 25, 2022 }}</ref>
|-
|'''''[[Little Gaza]]'''''
|[[Palestinian Americans|Palestinian American]]
|Pending
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Tehrangeles]] or [[Little Persia]]
|[[Westwood, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Iranian Americans]]
| rowspan="3" |No
|-
|Southern [[San Fernando Valley]]
|-
|[[Beverly Hills, California]]
|-
|Persian Square
|Near [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]
|Yes, 2010<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/173417423#:~:text=ARDALAN%3A%20In%20February%20of%202010,the%20city%20of%20Los%20Angeles.| title=A Multimedia Journey Through 'The Persian Square' | website=[[NPR]] | date=August 25, 2022 }}</ref>
|-
|Little Afghanistan
|[[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]
|[[Afghan Americans]]
|No
|-
|Los Angeles Community Eruv
|[[Agoura Hills, California|Agoura Hills]], [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]], [[Hancock Park, Los Angeles|Hancock Park]], [[Pico-Robertson, Los Angeles|Pico-Robertson]], [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]], & [[Westwood, Los Angeles|Westwood]]
| rowspan="4" |[[Jewish American]]
|
|-
|North Valley Eruv
|[[Chatsworth, Los Angeles|Chatsworth]], [[Granada Hills, Los Angeles|Granada Hills]], [[North Hills, Los Angeles|North Hills]], & [[Northridge, Los Angeles|Northridge]]
|
|-
|Valley Eruv
|[[North Hollywood, Los Angeles|North Hollywood]], [[Valley Village, Los Angeles|Valley Village]], [[Van Nuys, Los Angeles|Van Nuys]], [[Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles|Sherman Oaks]], [[Sherman Village, Los Angeles|Sherman Village]], and [[Panorama City, Los Angeles|Panorama City]]
|
|-
|Woodland Hills/West Hills Eruv
|[[Woodland Hills, Los Angeles|Woodland Hills]]/[[West Hills, Los Angeles|West Hills]]
|
|-
! colspan="4" |Latin American/Caribbean Ethnic Enclaves
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''El Salvador Corridor'''
| rowspan="2" |[[Pico-Union, Los Angeles]]
|[[Salvadoran Americans]]
|Yes, August 2012
|-
| rowspan="2" |[[Guatemalan Americans]], [[Honduran Americans]], & other [[Central America]]n groups
| rowspan="2" |No
|-
|Little Central America
|[[Westlake, Los Angeles]] & [[Harvard Heights, Los Angeles]]
|-
|'''[[Olvera Street]]'''
|[[El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument]]
| rowspan="13" |[[Mexican Americans]] & [[Chicano]]
|Yes, 1877
|-
|'''[[Sonoratown, Los Angeles|Sonoratown]]'''
|
|Removed, 1732–1938
|-
|[[Mariachi Plaza]]
|[[East Los Angeles, California]]
|No
|-
|[[Gateway Cities]]
|
|No
|-
|
|[[El Monte, California|El Monte]], [[La Puente]], [[Baldwin Park, California|Baldwin Park]], [[West Covina, California|West Covina]], [[Covina, California|Covina]], [[Irwindale, California|Irwindale]], [[Azusa, California|Azusa]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]]
|No
|-
|
|[[San Fernando, California|San Fernando]]
|No
|-
|[[Anaheim Colony District]]
|[[Anaheim, California]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Pomona, California|Pomona]] and [[Ontario, California|Ontario]]
|No
|-
|[[San Bernardino Valley]]
|[[San Bernardino]], [[Colton, California|Colton]], [[Fontana, California|Fontana]], [[Rialto]], and [[Bloomington, California|Bloomington]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Moreno Valley]] and [[Perris]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Riverside, California|Riverside]], [[Corona, California|Corona]], and [[Jurupa Valley]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Eastern Coachella Valley]], [[Coachella, California|Coachella]], and [[Indio, California|Indio]]
|No
|-
|'''[[Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles|Byzantine-Latino Quarter]]'''
|[[Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles]]
|[[Mexican Americans|Mexican American]], & [[Spanish Caribbean|Hispanic Caribbean American]]
|No
|-
|El Corredor Oaxaqueño
|[[Mid-City, Los Angeles]]
|[[Oaxaca]]n [[Mexican Americans]]
|No
|-
|Little Brazil
|[[Culver City, California]]
|[[Brazilian Americans]] & Other [[Lusophone]] Americans
|No
|-
|Little Belize
|[[Vermont Square, Los Angeles]]
|[[Belizean Americans]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |African and African American Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles|'''Little Ethiopia''']]
|[[Little Ethiopia, Los Angeles]]
|[[Ethiopian Americans]]
|Yes, 2002
|-
|Freetown
|[[Whittier, California]]
| rowspan="4" |[[African Americans]]
|No
|-
| rowspan="3" |
|[[South-central Los Angeles]], [[Compton, California|Compton]], [[Carson, California|Carson]], [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]], [[Culver City, California|Culver City]], and [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]]
|No
|-
|[[Altadena, California]]
|No
|-
|[[Antelope Valley]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |Native American Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Indian Alley]]
|[[Skid Row, Los Angeles]]
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |Pacific Islander Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|
|[[Carson, California]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Pacific Islander Americans]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles]] & [[Glendale, California]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |Anglo American Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Orange Coast]]
|[[Huntington Beach, California]], [[Newport Beach, California]], [[Laguna Beach, California]], [[Dana Point, California]], and [[San Clemente, California]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Anglo Americans]]
|No
|-
|Horsetown USA
|[[Norco, California]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Malibu, California]]
|No
|-
! colspan="4" |European Ethnic Enclaves
|-
|[[Little Italy]]
|Downtown LA, modern day [[Chinatown, Los Angeles]]
| rowspan="1" |Historically [[Italian Americans]]
|No
|-
|[[Little Italy]]/Via Italia<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lilaa.org/|title=LILAA – Little Italy of Los Angeles Association|website=lilaa.org}}</ref>
| rowspan="3" |[[San Pedro, Los Angeles]]
|[[Italian Americans]] & [[Maltese Americans]]
|Yes<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.italymagazine.com/featured-story/new-old-little-italy-los-angeles-san-pedro/ | title=A 'New, Old' Little Italy in los Angeles' San Pedro }}</ref>
|-
|Croatian Place
|[[Croatian Americans]]
|No
|-
|[[Greektown]]
| rowspan="2" |Historically [[Greek Americans]]
|No
|-
|'''[[Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles|Byzantine-Latino Quarter]]'''
|[[Byzantine-Latino Quarter, Los Angeles]]
|No
|-
|[[Little Portugal, Los Angeles|Little Portugal]]
|[[Artesia, California]]
|Historically [[Portuguese Americans]]
|No
|-
|[[Frogtown, Los Angeles|Frogtown]]
|[[Frogtown, Los Angeles]] & [[Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles]]
|Historically [[French Americans]]
|No
|-
|[[Little Moscow]]
|[[Los Feliz, Los Angeles]]
|[[Russian Americans]]
|No
|-
|Little Odessa
|[[West Hollywood, California]]
|[[Ukrainian Americans in Los Angeles]] and [[Russian Americans]]
|No
|-
|Little Britain
|[[Santa Monica, California]]
|[[British Americans]]
|No
|-
|[[Anaheim, California]]
|[[Anaheim, California]]
|Historically [[German Americans]]
|No
|-
|
|[[Bellflower, California]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-26-me-1617-story.html | title=Little Bit of Holland is Mostly Memories | website=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=April 26, 1987 }}</ref>
|[[Dutch Americans]]
|No
|}

==Politics==
{| class="wikitable" class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin:1em 0 1em 1em; font-size:95%;"
|+ '''Presidential Election Results for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Consolidated Statistical Area'''
|+ ''' '''
|+ '''(Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino)'''
|-
! Year
![[GOP]]
![[Democratic Party (United States)|DEM]]
!Others
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2024 United States presidential election|2024]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|39.4% ''2,845,661''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''57.5%''' ''4,146,160''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.1% ''223,275''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|34.8% ''2,799,636''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''63.1%''' ''5,078,481''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.1% ''169,472''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2016 United States presidential election|2016]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|31.5% ''2,013,697''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''62.3%''' ''3,983,255''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|6.1% ''391,977''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|37.4% ''2,196,108''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''60.2%''' ''3,534,444''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.4% ''143,577''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2008 United States presidential election|2008]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|37.3% ''2,099,609''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''60.8%''' ''3,425,319''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.9% ''107,147''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2004 United States presidential election|2004]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|45.3% ''2,490,150''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''53.4%''' ''2,932,429''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.3% ''69,649''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[2000 United States presidential election|2000]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|41.3% ''2,003,114''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''54.6%''' ''2,652,907''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|4.1% ''198,750''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[1996 United States presidential election|1996]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|38.3% ''1,661,209''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''51.3%''' ''2,220,837''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|10.4% ''449,706''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[1992 United States presidential election|1992]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|33.8% ''1,657,151''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''45.0%''' ''2,202,345''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|21.2% ''1,038,448''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1988 United States presidential election|1988]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''53.8%''' ''2,408,696''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|45.0% ''2,014,670''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.2% ''54,441''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1984 United States presidential election|1984]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''60.6%''' ''2,614,904''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|38.3% ''1,650,231''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.1% ''48,225''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1980 United States presidential election|1980]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''55.5%''' ''2,187,859''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|35.0% ''1,381,285''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|9.5% ''374,993''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1976 United States presidential election|1976]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''50.8%''' ''1,877,267''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|46.7% ''1,728,532''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% ''93,554''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1972 United States presidential election|1972]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''57.7%''' ''2,346,127''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|38.7% ''1,573,708''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.6% ''146,653''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1968 United States presidential election|1968]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''50.3%''' ''1,836,478''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|43.0% ''1,570,478''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.3% ''247,280''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#f0f0ff;"|'''[[1964 United States presidential election|1964]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|44.0% ''1,578,837''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|'''55.9%''' ''2,006,184''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.1% ''2,488''
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fff3f3;"|'''[[1960 United States presidential election|1960]]'''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffcccb;"|'''50.8%''' ''1,677,962''
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ADD8E6;"|48.9% ''1,612,924''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.3% ''10,524''
|}

Greater Los Angeles is a politically divided metropolitan area. During the 1970s and 1980s, the region leaned toward the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. [[Los Angeles County]], the most populous of the region, is a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] stronghold, although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972) and Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984). [[Riverside County]], [[San Bernardino County]], and [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] have historically leaned toward the Republican Party but have started shifting leftward in recent years. [[Ventura County]] is politically divided.

==Economy==

The Los Angeles metropolitan area has the third-largest metropolitan economy in the world, behind the [[Greater Tokyo Area]] and the [[New York metropolitan area]]. In 2022, the [[combined statistical area]] of Greater Los Angeles (which includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the [[Inland Empire]], and [[Ventura County, California|Ventura County]]) had a $1.528 trillion economy.

Los Angeles and Orange Counties together have an economy of roughly $1.227 trillion.<ref name="Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA (MSA)"/> Important are [[Real estate bubble|coastal California land values]] and the rents they command, which contribute heavily to GDP earnings, though there are worries that these high land values contribute to the long-term problem of housing affordability and are thus a possible risk to future GDP increase.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/construction-costs-series|title=Terner Center|website=ternercenter.berkeley.edu|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=November 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115071436/https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/construction-costs-series|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx|title=California's High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences|website=lao.ca.gov|access-date=2019-06-22|archive-date=November 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116123027/https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2015/finance/housing-costs/housing-costs.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> This is evident when comparing the coast with the [[Inland Empire]], a large component of the five-county [[combined statistical area]] (CSA) that nevertheless contributes a far smaller portion to regional [[gross metropolitan product]] but still dominates in industry. The Greater Los Angeles CSA is the third-largest [[List of cities by GDP|economic center]] in the world, after [[Greater Tokyo]] and the [[New York-Newark-Bridgeport]] CSA.

Greater Los Angeles is a hotspot for Asian car manufacturers. Specifically, [[Mitsubishi Motors|Mitsubishi]], [[Hyundai Motor Company|Hyundai]], [[American Honda Motor Company|Honda]], and [[Mazda]] have their U.S. headquarters in the area.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horovitz |first=Bruce |date=1986-03-18 |title=Auto Makers From Asia Flock to Orange County |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-18-fi-27188-story.html |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Nissan]] and [[Toyota]] were headquartered in the area in the recent past as well. (Nissan moved to [[Tennessee]]; Toyota moved to [[Texas]].)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gnerre |first=Sam |date=2021-11-29 |title=South Bay History: Nissan's American headquarters stayed for nearly half a century |url=https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/11/29/south-bay-history-nissan-motor-corp-s-american-headquarters-stayed-in-south-bay-for-nearly-half-a-century/ |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=Daily Breeze |language=en-US}}</ref>

{{update|section|date=June 2015}}
The economy of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is famously and heavily based on the entertainment industry, with a particular focus on television, [[film industry|motion pictures]], [[interactive games]], and [[Music industry|recorded music]] – the [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] district of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas are known as the "movie capital of the United States" due to the region's extreme commercial and historical importance to the American [[motion picture industry]]. Other significant sectors include shipping/international trade – particularly at the adjacent [[Port of Los Angeles]] and [[Port of Long Beach]], together comprising the United States' busiest seaport – logistics – the [[Inland Empire]] being the largest concentration of warehousing and intermodal facilities in the world – as well as aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion and apparel, and tourism.

The City of Los Angeles was previously home to five [[Fortune 500]] companies: energy company [[Occidental Petroleum]] (until 2014 when it moved its headquarters to Houston), healthcare provider [[Health Net]], metals distributor Reliance Steel & Aluminum, engineering firm [[AECOM]], and real estate group [[CB Richard Ellis]]. As of 2024, all of these companies have moved elsewhere. Other companies headquartered in Los Angeles include [[American Apparel]], [[City National Bank (California)|City National Bank]], [[20th Century Studios]], [[Latham & Watkins]], [[Univision]], Metro Interactive, LLC, [[Premier America]], [[Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher]], [[DeviantArt]],<ref>"[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22872779 DeviantArt, Inc.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213000303/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22872779 |date=December 13, 2014 }}" ''[[Businessweek]] Investing''. Accessed November 9, 2008.</ref> [[Guess?]], [[O'Melveny & Myers]]; [[Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker]], [[Tokyopop]], [[The Jim Henson Company]], [[Paramount Pictures]], [[Sunkist Growers, Incorporated]], [[Tutor Perini]], [[Fox Sports Net]], [[Capital Group Companies|Capital Group]], and [[The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf]]. [[Korean Air]]'s US passenger and cargo operations headquarters are in two separate offices in Los Angeles.<ref>"[http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/ld/eng/au/ci/Contact_Info.htm Contact Info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230231703/http://www.koreanair.com/local/na/ld/eng/au/ci/Contact_Info.htm |date=December 30, 2008 }}". ''[[Korean Air]]''. Retrieved September 20, 2008.</ref> Entertainment and media giant [[The Walt Disney Company]] is headquartered in nearby [[Burbank, California|Burbank]].

[[File:Aerial view of Port of Long Beach.jpg|thumb|left|[[Port of Long Beach]]]] The [[Port of Los Angeles]] and [[Port of Long Beach]] together comprise the fifth-busiest port in the world, being the center of imports and exports for trade on the west Pacific Coast as well as being one of the most significant ports of the [[western hemisphere]]. The Port of Los Angeles occupies {{convert|7500|acres|0|abbr=off}} of land and water along {{convert|43|mi|km|abbr=off}} of waterfront and is the busiest container port in the United States. The Port is the busiest port in the United States by container volume, the 8th busiest container port in the world.<ref name=AAPA-PIS-WPR-2005>[http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/Statistics/WORLD%20PORT%20RANKINGS%202005.xls ''"World Port Rankings – 2005"''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927223354/http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/Statistics/WORLD%20PORT%20RANKINGS%202005.xls |date=September 27, 2007 }} – Port Industry Statistics – [[American Association of Port Authorities]] (AAPA) – Updated May 1, 2007 – (Microsoft Excel *.XLS document)</ref><ref name=AAPA-PIS-NAPCT-2006>[http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/PDFs/2006%5FNorth%5FAmerican%5FContainer%5FTraffic.pdf ''"North American Port Container Traffic – 2006"''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219193825/http://aapa.files.cms-plus.com/PDFs/2006_North_American_Container_Traffic.pdf |date=December 19, 2008 }} – Port Industry Statistics – [[American Association of Port Authorities]] (AAPA) – Updated May 14, 2007 – (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document)</ref><ref name=polaorg>[http://www.portoflosangeles.org/about/faqs.asp#9 FAQ # 22] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613000526/http://portoflosangeles.org/about/faqs.asp |date=June 13, 2010 }} at the Port of Los Angeles.org</ref> The top trading partners in 2004 were: China ($68.8&nbsp;billion), Japan ($24.1&nbsp;billion), Taiwan ($10.8&nbsp;billion), Thailand ($6.7&nbsp;billion), & South Korea ($5.6&nbsp;billion)

The Port of Long Beach is the second-busiest container port in the United States. It adjoins the separate Port of Los Angeles. Acting as a major gateway for U.S.-Asian trade, the port occupies {{convert|3200|acres|0|abbr=off}} of land with {{convert|25|mi|km|abbr=off}} of waterfront in the city of [[Long Beach, California]]. The seaport has approximately $100&nbsp;billion in trade and provides more than 316,000 jobs in [[Southern California]]. The Port of Long Beach imports and exports more than $100&nbsp;billion worth of goods every year. The seaport provides the country with jobs, generates tax revenue, and supports retail and manufacturing businesses.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}

===Economic statistics for Los Angeles and Orange Counties===
In 2014, the population of the Long Beach–Los Angeles–Anaheim metropolitan statistical area (MSA) reached 13,262,220 and ranked second in the United States – a 1 percent increase from 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proximityone.com/metros/2013/cbsa31080.htm#6.4|title=Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA Situation & Outlook Report|website=proximityone.com|access-date=2019-09-25|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224133039/http://proximityone.com/metros/2013/cbsa31080.htm#6.4|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim had a [[Per capita personal income in the United States|per capita personal income]] (PCPI) of $50,751 and ranked 29th in the country.

In 2014, Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim placed third among the largest exporters in the United States (shipment totaling to $75.5 billion). The metro accounted for 40.8 percent of California's merchandise exports, mainly exporting computer and electronic products ($18.6 billion); transportation equipment ($15.3 billion) and chemicals ($5.6 billion). Nonetheless, the greater Los Angeles metro has immensely benefited from the free trade agreements: greater Los Angeles exported $25.1 billion to the NAFTA region and $776 million in goods to the CAFTA region.

Overall, in 2014 the average wages and salaries reached $57,519 (in 2010, the average wages and salaries reached $54,729).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proximityone.com/metros/2013/cbsa31080.htm#6|title=Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA Situation & Outlook Report|website=proximityone.com|access-date=2019-09-25|archive-date=February 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224133039/http://proximityone.com/metros/2013/cbsa31080.htm#6|url-status=live}}</ref> Meanwhile, the median household income in 2014 was $56,935, a 1.4 percent increase from 2013 (average median household income was $56,164).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA ---MARKET REPORT--- |url=https://zondahome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zonda_Market_Report_CA_Los-Angeles-Long-Beach-Anaheim.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305060316/https://zondahome.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zonda_Market_Report_CA_Los-Angeles-Long-Beach-Anaheim.pdf |archive-date=March 5, 2022 |access-date=March 5, 2022 |website=Zonda}}</ref>

''Note'': Dollar items are in current dollars (not adjusted for inflation). Per capita items in dollars; other dollar items in thousands of dollars.

Table 2 (refer below) is a chart of the four highest sectors in the metro area, with health care and social assistance reaching 15.54%.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Industry'''
|'''Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA'''
|-
|'''NAICS 62 Health care and social assistance'''
|15.54%
|-
|'''NAICS 44–45 Retail trade'''
|11.27%
|-
|'''NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services'''
|10.79%
|-
|'''NAICS 31–33 Manufacturing'''
|10.47%
|}

Table 3 (refer below) displays the location quotient for employment in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim MSA. Top three sectors include information; art, entertainment, and recreation; and real estate and rental and leasing. (Data obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014. Data measures Location Quotient for sectors in the MSA area. U.S. Total is the base areas.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bls.gov/cew/about-data/location-quotients-explained.htm|title=QCEW Establishment Size Classes (For NAICS-Based Data)|website=bls.gov|access-date=2019-09-25|archive-date=November 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114003717/https://www.bls.gov/cew/about-data/location-quotients-explained.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|'''Industry'''
|'''Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, CA MSA'''
|-
|'''NAICS 99 Unclassified'''
|2.46
|-
|'''NAICS 51 Information'''
|1.88
|-
|'''NAICS 71 Arts, entertainment, and recreation'''
|1.36
|-
|'''NAICS 53 Real estate and rental and leasing'''
|1.29
|-
|'''NAICS 42 Wholesale trade'''
|1.21
|-
|'''NAICS 61 Educational services'''
|1.13
|-
|'''NAICS 54 Professional and technical services'''
|1.11
|-
|'''NAICS 56 Administrative and waste services'''
|1.06
|-
|'''NAICS 81 Other services, except public administration'''
|1.04
|-
|'''NAICS 31–33 Manufacturing'''
|1
|-
|'''NAICS 62 Health care and social assistance'''
|1
|-
|'''NAICS 72 Accommodation and food services'''
|1
|-
|'''NAICS 55 Management of companies and enterprises'''
|0.95
|-
|'''NAICS 48–49 Transportation and warehousing'''
|0.88
|-
|'''NAICS 52 Finance and insurance'''
|0.86
|-
|'''NAICS 44–45 Retail trade'''
|0.85
|-
|'''NAICS 23 Construction'''
|0.76
|-
|'''NAICS 22 Utilities'''
|0.65
|-
|'''NAICS 11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting'''
|0.15
|-
|'''NAICS 21 Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction'''
|0.15
|}

==Utilities and infrastructure==
There are nine electric utility power companies in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. [[Southern California Edison]] serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Los Angeles city limits, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Azusa, Vernon, Anaheim, and southern Orange County. Southern Orange County is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area and it is served by [[San Diego Gas & Electric]]. There are three natural gas providers in the metropolitan area. [[Southern California Gas Company]] serves a large majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area except for Long Beach and southern Orange County.

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is served by the following utility companies.

===Electricity===
* [[Southern California Edison]] (largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area)
* [[Los Angeles Department of Water and Power]] (second-largest electric utility in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and the largest within the Los Angeles city limits)
* Burbank Water and Power
* Glendale Water and Power
* Pasadena Water and Power
* Anaheim Water and Power
* Azusa Light & Power
* Vernon Light & Power
* [[San Diego Gas & Electric]] ''(serves southern Orange County, which is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area)''

The only nuclear power plant that serves the Los Angeles metropolitan area is [[Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station]] in the US state of Arizona 46 miles west of Phoenix. LADWP and Southern California Edison get their electricity from it.

===Natural gas===
* [[Southern California Gas Company]]
* City of Long Beach Gas Company
* [[San Diego Gas & Electric]] ''(serves southern Orange County, which is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area)''

===Cable television===
* [[Charter Communications]], known as [[Charter Spectrum]] (serves a majority of the Los Angeles metropolitan area)
* [[Cox Communications]] ''(serves parts of Orange County and the Palos Verdes peninsula)''

===Phone and Internet===

* [[AT&T]]
* [[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]]
* [[Verizon]]
* [[Metro PCS]]
* [[cricket Wireless]]
* [[Frontier Communications]]
* [[Charter Spectrum]]

===Medical facilities===
Greater Los Angeles is one of the world's largest patient destinations. The Los Angeles Medical Services provide quality medical services and specialty care services to the populations served in compliance with local, state and federal regulations as well as human rights protection.<ref name="lacity1">{{Cite web |title=Medical Services Division |url=http://per.lacity.org/ohsd/medservloc.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224031617/https://per.lacity.org/ohsd/medservloc.htm |archive-date=February 24, 2021 |access-date=March 5, 2022 |website=per.lacity.org}}</ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212093914/http://per.lacity.org/ohsd/medservloc.htm |date=February 12, 2018 }}

[[Los Angeles]] and [[Orange County, California|Orange]] counties have separate medical service department but both work jointly. Government and Private hospitals open normally Monday through Friday, excluding City Holidays but some speciality hospitals are open year-round.<ref name="lacity1"/> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212093914/http://per.lacity.org/ohsd/medservloc.htm |date=February 12, 2018 }}

The main healthcare providers in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are [[Kaiser Permanente]], Cedars-Sinai Health System, UCLA Health, Dignity Healthcare, and Providence Healthcare. LA Care and Care1st are also the main providers for those in the metropolitan area that have Medi-Cal.

==Events==
{{See also|:Category:Annual events in California|:Category:Annual events in Los Angeles County, California}}
Major events include:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visitcalifornia.com/au/feature/events-california|title=Events in California|date=August 20, 2018|website=visitcalifornia.com|access-date=December 3, 2020|archive-date=September 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902110809/https://www.visitcalifornia.com/au/feature/events-california|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[626 Night Market]]
*[[Auto Club 400]], Inland Empire
*[[BNP Paribas Open]]
*Fashion Week El Paseo, Palm Springs
*Holidays at the [[Disneyland Resort]]
*[[LA Auto Show]]
*Laguna Beach [[Pageant of the Masters]]
*[[Los Angeles Film Festival]]
*[[Newport Beach Christmas boat parade]]
*Newport Beach Wine and Food Festival
*[[Palm Springs International Film Festival]]
*Palm Springs Modernism Week
*[[Rose Parade]]
*[[Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival]]
*Vans [[U.S. Open of Surfing]]

===Awards ceremonies===
*[[Academy Awards]]
*[[Primetime Emmy Awards]]
*[[Golden Globes]]
*[[Grammy Awards]]
*[[Screen Actors Guild Awards]]

===Annual county fairs===
* [[Los Angeles County Fair]] at [[Fairplex]] in Pomona
* [[Orange County Fair (California)|Orange County Fair]] in Costa Mesa
* [[Riverside County Fair]] and Date Festival

===Annual Conventions===
* [[Anime Expo]]
* [[BlizzCon]]
* [[D23 Expo]]
* [[Electronic Entertainment Expo]]
* [[L.A. Comic Con]]
* [[Los Angeles Auto Show]]
* [[NAMM Show]]
* [[VidCon]]
* [[WonderCon]]
* [[RuPaul's DragCon LA]]

==Area codes==
{{Main|List of California area codes}}
* [[Area code 213|213]] – [[Downtown Los Angeles]], surrounded by 323 (October 1947)
* [[Area code 310|310/424]] – [[Santa Monica]], [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[Pacific Palisades, California|Pacific Palisades]], [[Compton, California|Compton]], [[Lynwood, California|Lynwood]], [[Torrance, California|Torrance]], [[Beverly Hills]], [[Santa Catalina Island (California)|Catalina Island]]; the southwestern portion of [[Los Angeles County]]. (Split from 213 on November 2, 1991; [[Overlay plan|overlaid]] by [[Area code 424|424]] on August 26, 2006)
* [[Area code 323|323]] – a ring around downtown Los Angeles, including the Hollywood and [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California|Eagle Rock]] neighborhoods of Los Angeles; [[South Los Angeles]]; the cities of [[South Gate, California|South Gate]], [[Huntington Park]], [[Vernon, California|Vernon]], [[Walnut Park, California|Walnut Park]], [[Florence-Graham, California|Florence]], [[Bell, California|Bell]], [[Bell Gardens]], [[Cudahy, California|Cudahy]], [[Montebello, California|Montebello]], and [[East Los Angeles]]. (Split from 213 on June 13, 1998)
* [[Area codes 760 and 442|442/760]] – [[Coachella Valley]], including [[Palm Springs]] and [[Indio, California|Indio]]; [[Victor Valley]], including [[Victorville]] and [[Apple Valley, California|Apple Valley]]
* [[Area code 562|562]] – [[Long Beach]], [[Downey, California|Downey]], [[Whittier, California|Whittier]]; [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]], [[Lakewood, California|Lakewood]], [[Bellflower, California|Bellflower]], [[Paramount, California|Paramount]], [[Cerritos, California|Cerritos]], southeast [[Los Angeles County]], and a small portion of coastal [[Orange County, California|Orange County]]. (Split from 310 on January 25, 1997)
* [[Area code 626|626]] – [[Pasadena]], [[Monterey Park, California|Monterey Park]], [[Rowland Heights]], [[Alhambra, California|Alhambra]], and [[West Covina]]; the [[San Gabriel Valley]], and eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. (Split from 818 on June 14, 1997)
* [[Area codes 714 and 657|657/714]] – [[Anaheim]], [[Huntington Beach]], [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]], [[Orange, California|Orange]], [[Garden Grove, California|Garden Grove]]; northern and western [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] (Overlaid by 657 on September 23, 2008)
* [[Area codes 818 and 747|747/818]] – the cities of [[Burbank, California|Burbank]], [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], [[San Fernando, California|San Fernando]]; the [[North Hollywood]], [[Van Nuys]], [[Panorama City]], [[Sherman Oaks]], and [[Northridge, Los Angeles|Northridge]] neighborhoods of Los Angeles; the [[San Fernando Valley]]. (Split from 213 on January 7, 1984)
* [[Area codes 805 and 820|805/820]] – Ventura County, including the cities of [[Oxnard]], [[Simi Valley]], [[Thousand Oaks]], and [[Ventura, California|Ventura]]
* [[Area code 909|909]] – Southwest [[San Bernardino County]] and the far eastern L.A. County suburbs of [[Pomona, California|Pomona]], [[Walnut, California|Walnut]], [[Diamond Bar]], [[San Dimas, California|San Dimas]], [[La Verne, California|La Verne]], and [[Claremont, California|Claremont]]. (Split from 714 on November 14, 1992)
* [[Area code 949|949]] – [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], [[Laguna Beach]], [[Newport Beach]], [[San Juan Capistrano]]; southern and eastern [[Orange County, California|Orange County]]. (Split from 714 on April 18, 1998)
* [[Area code 951|951]] – [[Corona, California|Corona]], [[Hemet]], [[Jurupa Valley]], [[Lake Elsinore, California|Lake Elsinore]], [[Menifee, California|Menifee]], [[Moreno Valley]], [[Riverside, California|Riverside]], [[Temecula]]; western end of [[Riverside County]]. (Split from 909 on July 17, 2004)

==Media==
{{Main|Media in Los Angeles}}

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to the headquarters of several well-known media companies including: the [[Los Angeles Times]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company]], [[Universal Studios, Inc.|Universal Studios]], and [[The Walt Disney Company]]. Local television channels broadcasting to the Los Angeles market include [[KCBS-TV]] 2 ([[CBS]]), [[KNBC]] 4 ([[NBC]]), [[KTLA]] 5 ([[The CW]]), [[KABC-TV|KABC]] 7 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[KCAL-TV]] 9 ([[Independent station (North America)|Independent]]), [[KTTV]] 11 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), [[KCOP]] 13 ([[MyNetworkTV]]), [[KCET]] 28, ([[PBS]]), [[KPXN-TV]] 30 ([[Ion Television|Ion]]), [[KMEX-DT]] 34 ([[Univision]]), [[KVEA]] 52 ([[Telemundo]]) and [[KLCS]] 58 (PBS). Radio stations serving the area include: [[KKJZ]], [[KIIS-FM|KIIS]], [[KNX (AM)]], and [[KMZT (AM)|KMZT]].

==Education==
===Primary and secondary education===
The [[Los Angeles Unified School District]] serves the city of L.A., and [[List of school districts in Los Angeles County, California|other school districts]] serve the surrounding areas. A number of private schools are also located in the region.

===Higher education===
[[File:Cal State University, Los Angeles.jpg|thumb|[[Cal State LA]]'s The Golden Eagle, consisting of two adjoining structures separated by a [[promenade]].]]
Greater Los Angeles is home to [[List of colleges and universities in Southern California|a number of colleges and universities]]. The [[University of Southern California]] and [[University of California, Los Angeles]], are among the largest, and the [[Claremont Colleges]] and [[California Institute of Technology]] are among the most academically renowned. Below is a list of some of the most well known colleges and universities within the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
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* [[Art Center College of Design]]
* [[Azusa Pacific University]]
* [[Biola University]]
* [[California Baptist University]]
* [[California Lutheran University]]
* [[California State University, Channel Islands]]
* [[California State University, Dominguez Hills]]
* [[California State University, Fullerton]]
*[[California State University, Northridge]]
* [[California State University, Long Beach]]
* [[California State University, Los Angeles]]
* [[California State University, San Bernardino]]
* [[California State Polytechnic University, Pomona]]
* [[California Institute of Technology]]
* [[Chapman University]]
* [[Claremont Colleges]]
* [[Laguna College of Art and Design]]
* [[Loma Linda University]]
* [[Loyola Marymount University]]
* [[Otis College of Art and Design]]
* [[University of California, Irvine]]
* [[University of California, Los Angeles]]
* [[University of California, Riverside]]
* [[University of Southern California]]
* [[University of La Verne]]
* [[University of Redlands]]
* [[Pepperdine University]]
* [[Soka University of America]]
* [[Vanguard University]]
* [[West Coast University]]
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==Transportation==

[[File:Harborfreeway2.jpg|thumb|right|Rush hour on the [[Harbor Freeway]], Downtown]]
Greater Los Angeles is known for its expansive transportation network. Most notable is its extensive highway system. The area is a junction for numerous interstates coming from the north, east, and south and contains the three principal north–south highways in California: [[Interstate 5]], [[U.S. Route 101]], and [[California State Route 1]]. The area is also home to several ports, including the twin ports of [[Port of Long Beach|Long Beach]] and [[Port of Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], which are the two busiest in the United States, as well as [[Port of Hueneme]].<ref name=LAT20110807>{{cite news|last=White|first=Ronald D.|title=Long Beach port chief's long voyage nears an end|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-aug-07-la-fi-himi-steinke-20110807-story.html|access-date=June 15, 2012|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121193432/http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/07/business/la-fi-himi-steinke-20110807|archive-date=January 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, the region is also served by the [[Los Angeles Metro Rail]] and [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]] commuter rail systems that link neighborhoods of Los Angeles with immediate surrounding suburbs and most of the region (excluding the outer region of the Inland Empire) with [[Oceanside, California|Oceanside]] in San Diego County, respectively. [[Los Angeles International Airport]] (LAX) is the principal international airport of the region and is one of the busiest in the world.<ref>[[World's busiest airports by passenger traffic]]</ref> Other airports include [[Ontario International Airport]] (ONT), [[John Wayne Airport]] (SNA), [[Hollywood Burbank Airport]] (BUR), [[Long Beach Municipal Airport]] (LGB), and [[Palm Springs International Airport]] (PSP).

===Historic streetcar network===

[[File:Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railways (Red Cars).svg|thumb|upright=1.25|Los Angeles Pacific Electric (Red Cars) network]]
The '''Pacific Electric Railway Company''', nicknamed the '''Red Cars''', was a privately owned [[Public transport|mass transit]] system in [[Southern California]] consisting of electrically powered [[streetcar]]s, [[interurban]] cars, and [[bus]]es and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Organized around the city centers of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, it connected cities in [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]], [[Orange County, California|Orange County]], [[San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino County]] and [[Riverside County, California|Riverside County]].

The system shared [[dual gauge]] track with the {{RailGauge|3ft6in|lk=on}} [[Narrow-gauge railway|narrow-gauge]] [[Los Angeles Railway]], "Yellow Car", or "LARy" system on [[Main Street (Los Angeles)|Main Street]] in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front of the 6th and Main terminal), on 4th Street, and along [[Hawthorne Boulevard (Los Angeles County)|Hawthorne Boulevard]] south of downtown Los Angeles toward the cities of Hawthorne, Gardena, and Torrance.

===Commercial airports===
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! valign=bottom | Airport
! valign=bottom | [[IATA airport code|IATA code]]
! valign=bottom | [[County (United States)|County]]
! valign=bottom | Enplanements (2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy13-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf |title=Commercial Service Airports based on Calendar Year 2013 Enplanements |publisher=[[FAA]] |date=January 26, 2015 |access-date=April 15, 2018 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307215540/https://www.faa.gov/airports/planning_capacity/passenger_allcargo_stats/passenger/media/cy13-commercial-service-enplanements.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[Los Angeles International Airport]]
| LAX
| [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]]
| align=center | 32,425,892
|-
| [[John Wayne Airport]]
| SNA
| [[Orange County, California|Orange County]]
| align=center | 4,540,628
|-
| [[Ontario International Airport]]
| ONT
| [[San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino]]
| align=center | 1,970,538
|-
| [[Hollywood Burbank Airport]]
| BUR
| [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]]
| align=center | 1,918,011
|-
| [[Long Beach Airport]]
| LGB
| [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]]
| align=center | 1,438,756
|-
| [[San Bernardino International Airport]]
| SBD
| [[San Bernardino County, California|San Bernardino]]
| align=center | N/A
|-
| [[Hawthorne Municipal Airport (California)|Hawthorne Municipal Airport]]
| HHR
| [[Hawthorne, California|Hawthorne]]
| align=center | N/A
|-
| [[Van Nuys Airport]]
| VNY
| [[Los Angeles]]
| align=center | N/A
|}

The primary airport serving the LA metro area is [[Los Angeles International Airport]] (LAX), one of the busiest airports in the United States. LAX is in southwestern Los Angeles, {{convert|16|mi|km}} from Downtown Los Angeles. LAX is the only airport to serve as a hub for all three U.S. legacy airlines —American, Delta and United.

In addition to LAX, [[List of airports in the Los Angeles area|other airports]], including [[Hollywood Burbank Airport]], [[John Wayne Airport]], [[Long Beach Airport]], [[Ontario International Airport]], and [[San Bernardino International Airport]] also serve the region.

===Bridges===
The Los Angeles metropolitan area has only one suspension bridge: [[Vincent Thomas Bridge]] in [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]], and one cable-stayed bridge: [[Long Beach International Gateway]] in [[Long Beach, California|Long Beach]].

===Interstate Highways===
{{Main|Southern California freeways}}
* [[File:I-5 (CA).svg|20px]] Golden State Freeway/[[Santa Ana Freeway]]/San Diego Freeway ([[Interstate 5 in California|Interstate 5]])
* [[File:I-10 (CA).svg|20px]] Santa Monica Freeway/Rosa Parks Freeway/San Bernardino Freeway ([[Interstate 10 in California|Interstate 10]])
* [[File:I-15 (CA).svg|20px]] Escondido Freeway/Temecula Valley Freeway/Corona Freeway/Ontario Freeway/Mojave Freeway ([[Interstate 15 (California)|Interstate 15]])
* [[File:I-105 (CA).svg|24px]] Glenn Anderson Freeway/Century Freeway ([[Interstate 105 (California)|Interstate 105]])
* [[File:I-110 (CA).svg|24px]] Harbor Freeway ([[Interstate 110 (California)|Interstate 110]])
* [[File:I-210 (CA).svg|24px]] Foothill Freeway ([[Foothill Freeway|Interstate 210]])
* [[File:I-215 (CA).svg|24px]] Escondido Freeway/Armed Forces Freeway/Barstow Freeway ([[Interstate 215 (California)|Interstate 215]])
* [[File:I-405 (CA).svg|24px]] San Diego Freeway ([[Interstate 405 (California)|Interstate 405]])
* [[File:I-605 (CA).svg|24px]] San Gabriel River Freeway ([[Interstate 605]])
* [[File:I-710 (CA).svg|24px]] Long Beach Freeway ([[Interstate 710]])

===U.S. Highways===
* [[File:US 66 (CA).svg|20px]] [[Will Rogers Highway]] (Former [[U.S. Route 66 in California|U.S. Route 66]])
* [[File:US 99 (1961 cutout).svg|20px]] [[Pacific Highway (United States)|Pacific Highway]] (Former [[U.S. Route 99 in California|U.S. Route 99]])
* [[File:US 101 (1961 cutout).svg|25px]] [[Santa Ana Freeway]]/[[Hollywood Freeway]]/[[Ventura Freeway]] ([[U.S. Route 101 in California|U.S. Route 101]])

===California State Highways===

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* [[File:California 1.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 1|State Route 1]]
* [[File:California 2.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 2|State Route 2]]
* [[File:California 14.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 14|State Route 14]]
* [[File:California 18.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 18|State Route 18]]
* [[File:California 19.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 19|State Route 19]]
* [[File:California 22.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 22|State Route 22]]
* [[File:California 23.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 23|State Route 23]]
* [[File:California 27.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 27|State Route 27]]
* [[File:California 33.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 33|State Route 33]]
* [[File:California 34.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 34|State Route 34]]
* [[File:California 39.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 39|State Route 39]]
* [[File:California 47.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 47|State Route 47]]
* [[File:California 55.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 55|State Route 55]]
* [[File:California 57.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 57|State Route 57]]
* [[File:California 60.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 60|State Route 60]]
* [[File:California 66.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 66|State Route 66]]
* [[File:California 71.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 71|State Route 71]]
* [[File:California 72.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 72|State Route 72]]
* [[File:California 73.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 73|State Route 73]]
* [[File:California 74.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 74|State Route 74]]
* [[File:California 83.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 83|State Route 83]]
* [[File:California 90.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 90|State Route 90]]
* [[File:California 91.svg|20px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 91|State Route 91]]
* [[File:California 103.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 103|State Route 103]]
* [[File:California 107.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 107|State Route 107]]
* [[File:California 110.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 110|State Route 110]]
* [[File:California 118.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 118|State Route 118]]
* [[File:California 126.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 126|State Route 126]]
* [[File:California 133.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 133|State Route 133]]
* [[File:California 134.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 134|State Route 134]]
* [[File:California 138.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 138|State Route 138]]
* [[File:California 142.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 142|State Route 142]]
* [[File:California 170.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 170|State Route 170]]
* [[File:California 187.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 187|State Route 187]]
* [[File:California 210.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 210|State Route 210]]
* [[File:California 213.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 213|State Route 213]]
* [[File:California 241.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 241|State Route 241]]
* [[File:California 261.svg|25px|link= |alt=]] [[California State Route 261|State Route 261]]

{{Colend}}

===Los Angeles County Metro===
{{Main|Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority}}
[[File:Los Angeles Metro System Map.png|thumb|right|Map of [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|LA County Metro]]]]
The [[Los Angeles Metro Rail]] is the mass transit rail system of Los Angeles County. It is run by the [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority]] and its system runs six rail lines throughout Los Angeles County. Metro Rail currently operates four [[light rail]] and two [[rapid transit]] lines, altogether totaling {{convert|115.5|mi|km}} of rail, 101 stations, and over 360,000 daily weekday boardings {{as of|2012|12|lc=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.net/news/facts-glance/#P110_1342|title=Facts at a Glance|publisher=[[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|LACMTA]]|date=January 15, 2013|access-date=January 20, 2013|archive-date=August 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820202535/https://www.metro.net/news/facts-glance/#P110_1342|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[A Line (Los Angeles Metro)|A Line]] – light rail
* The [[B Line (Los Angeles Metro)|B Line]] – rapid transit
* The [[C Line (Los Angeles Metro)|C Line]] – light rail
* The [[D Line (Los Angeles Metro)|D Line]] – rapid transit
* The [[E Line (Los Angeles Metro)|E Line]] – light rail
* The [[G Line (Los Angeles Metro)|G Line]] – bus rapid transit
* The [[J Line (Los Angeles Metro)|J Line]] – bus rapid transit
* The [[K Line (Los Angeles Metro)|K Line]] – light rail

The system's light rail lines are the [[List of United States Light Rail systems by ridership|second busiest LRT system in the United States]], after Boston, by number of riders, with 200,300 average weekday boardings during the third quarter of 2012.<ref>Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority, [http://www.metro.net/news/facts-glance/#P110_1342 Facts at a Glance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820202535/https://www.metro.net/news/facts-glance/#P110_1342 |date=August 20, 2019 }}, January 15, 2013.</ref> By 2019, it had become the most heavily ridden light rail system in the country.<ref name="APTA-2019-Q4">{{cite web | url = https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf | title = Transit Ridership Report Fourth Quarter 2018 | publisher = [[American Public Transportation Association]] | date = February 27, 2020 | access-date = 2020-04-04 | archive-date = January 12, 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220112122550/https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref>

Since the region of the city is in close proximity to a major fault area the tunnels were built to resist earthquakes of up to magnitude 7.5. Both subway lines use an electrified third rail to provide power to the trains, rendering these lines unusable on the other three. The Blue and Gold Lines run mostly at grade, with some street-running, elevated, and underground stretches in the more densely populated areas of Los Angeles. The Green Line is entirely grade separated, running in the median of I-105 and then turning southward along an elevated route.

The rail lines run regularly from roughly 4:00 AM to 1:00 AM, seven days a week.[https://cdn.beta.metro.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/22184833/801_TT_12-15-24_v2-2.pdf]

===Other authorities===
In addition to Metro, other providers provide local service within their jurisdictions. These include the [[Orange County Transportation Authority]], [[San Bernardino County Transportation Authority]], and [[Riverside Transit Agency]].{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

===Regional and commuter rail===
[[File:Metrolink Map 2023.jpg|thumb|right|Map of [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]]]
There are two providers of heavy rail transportation in the region, [[Amtrak]] and [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]]. Amtrak provides service to [[San Diego]], [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]], [[San Luis Obispo]], and points in between on the [[Pacific Surfliner]]. It also provides long-distance routes, including the [[Coast Starlight]] which goes to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]], [[Portland, Oregon]], and [[Seattle, Washington]]; the [[Southwest Chief]] which goes to [[Flagstaff, Arizona]], [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], [[Kansas City, Missouri]] and [[Chicago]]; and the [[Sunset Limited]] which provides limited service (three days a week) to [[Tucson]], [[El Paso]], [[Houston]], and [[New Orleans]].

Metrolink provides service to numerous places within Southern California, including all counties in the region. Metrolink operates to 67 stations on eight lines within Southern California which mostly (except for the [[Inland Empire–Orange County Line]] and [[Arrow (rail service)|Arrow]]) radiate from [[Union Station (Los Angeles)|Los Angeles Union Station]].

==Sports==
{{Main|Sports in Los Angeles}}
{{Further|History of the NFL in Los Angeles}}
{{Missing information|section|San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura counties|date=November 2020}}

===Professional teams===
{{Main|Sports in Los Angeles}}
As a whole, the Los Angeles area has more national championships, all sports combined (college and professional), than any other city in the United States, with over four times as many championships as the entire state of Texas, and just over twice that of New York City.<ref>{{cite web|title=Los Angeles Sports Travel|url=http://losangelessportstravel.com/|access-date=February 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100118083840/http://losangelessportstravel.com/|archive-date=January 18, 2010|url-status=usurped}}</ref> It is the only American city to host the summer Olympic games twice: once in [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932]], and more recently in [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984]] (Lake Placid hosted the winter Olympic games twice: once in 1932 and once in 1980). Los Angeles will also be the host of the [[2028 Summer Olympics]], becoming the third city to host three Olympic Games, after [[London]] and [[Paris]].
[[File:Staples Center Night.jpg|thumb|[[Staples Center]] in [[Downtown Los Angeles]]]]

===Table of professional teams and venues===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Team!!Sport!!League!!Venue
|-
|[[Los Angeles Rams]]
| rowspan="2"|[[American football]]
| rowspan="2"|[[National Football League]]
| rowspan="2"|[[SoFi Stadium]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Chargers]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Dodgers]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Baseball]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Major League Baseball]]
|[[Dodger Stadium]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Angels]]
|[[Angel Stadium]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Clippers]]
| rowspan="3"|[[Basketball]]
| rowspan="2"|[[National Basketball Association]]
|[[Intuit Dome]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Lakers]]
|rowspan="3"|[[Crypto.com Arena]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Sparks]]
|[[Women's National Basketball Association]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles Kings]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Ice hockey]]
| rowspan="2"|[[National Hockey League]]
|-
|[[Anaheim Ducks]]
|[[Honda Center]]
|-
|[[LA Galaxy]]
| rowspan="3"|[[Soccer]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Major League Soccer]]
|[[Dignity Health Sports Park]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles FC]]
| rowspan="2"|[[BMO Stadium]]
|-
|[[Angel City FC]]
|[[National Women's Soccer League]]
|}

Other professional venues include:
* [[Auto Club Raceway at Pomona|Auto Club Raceway]], Pomona
* [[Auto Club Speedway]]
* [[Costa Mesa Speedway]]
* [[LA84 Foundation/John C. Argue Swim Stadium|John C. Argue Swim Stadium]]
* [[Long Beach Marine Stadium]]
* [[Los Alamitos Race Course]]
* [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]] (Temporary)
* [[Pico Rivera Sports Arena]]
* [[Rose Bowl (stadium)|Rose Bowl]]
* [[Santa Anita Park]]
* [[Kia Forum]]
* [[VELO Sports Center]]

===NCAA Division I college sports===
[[File:2008-1206-USC-UCLA-009-RB-redblue.JPG|thumb|[[UCLA–USC rivalry]]; both are located in LA and members of the [[Pac-12 Conference]], and moved together to the [[Big Ten Conference]] in 2024. The rivalry is unusual in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I sports, because the campuses are only 12 miles (19 km) apart, and located within the same megacity.]]

* [[California Baptist Lancers]]
* [[Cal State Fullerton Titans]]
* [[Cal State Northridge Matadors]]
* [[Long Beach State Beach]]
* [[Loyola Marymount Lions]]
* [[Pepperdine Waves]]
* [[UC Irvine Anteaters]]
* [[UC Riverside Highlanders]]
* [[UCLA Bruins]] (<small>[[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]]</small>)
* [[USC Trojans]] (<small>[[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]]</small>)

===Other sports===
The Greater Los Angeles area also has three well-known horse racing facilities: [[Santa Anita Park]], [[Los Alamitos Race Course]] and the former [[Hollywood Park Racetrack]] and three major motorsport venues: [[Auto Club Speedway]], [[Long Beach street circuit]], and [[Auto Club Raceway at Pomona]]. In addition, the city of Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics in [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932]] and [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984]].

For over twenty years the Los Angeles area media market lacked a [[National Football League]] team. After the 1994 season, the [[History of the Los Angeles Rams|Los Angeles Rams]] moved to [[St. Louis|St. Louis, Missouri]], and the [[Los Angeles Raiders]] returned to their original home of [[Oakland, California]], due to the lack of an up-to-date NFL stadium. After [[Proposed Los Angeles NFL stadiums|numerous stadium proposals]] between 1995 and 2016 in an attempt to bring the NFL back,<ref>{{cite news|title=L.A. council approves framework to build NFL stadium|url=http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/15417842/la-council-approves-framework-to-build-nfl-stadium/rss|work=[[CBSSports.com]]|access-date=August 11, 2011|date=August 9, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017012053/http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/15417842/la-council-approves-framework-to-build-nfl-stadium/rss|archive-date=October 17, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Industry Council Approves Pro Football Stadium|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/Industry-Council-Approves-Pro-Football-Stadium.html|work=nbcla.com|publisher=[[KNBC]]|access-date=August 11, 2011|date=July 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905200017/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/Industry-Council-Approves-Pro-Football-Stadium.html|archive-date=September 5, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Adams|first=John|title=Los Angeles, Are You Ready For Some NFL Football?|url=http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Are-You-Ready-For-Some-Football-64701932.html|work=nbcla.com|publisher=[[KNBC]]|access-date=August 11, 2011|date=October 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812193216/http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Are-You-Ready-For-Some-Football-64701932.html|archive-date=August 12, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Oakland Raiders]], [[St. Louis Rams]], and [[San Diego Chargers]] all submitted plans to relocate back to Los Angeles after the [[2015 NFL season]]. On January 12, 2016, the Rams were approved to move to Los Angeles and build the venue eventually known as [[SoFi Stadium]] with the Chargers or Raiders given the option to join them. On January 12, 2017, the Chargers announced their move to Los Angeles to join the Rams. Both teams share [[SoFi Stadium]] in [[Inglewood, California]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/next-challenge-for-farmers-field-finding-nfl-team-for-la.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |title=Next challenge for Farmers Field: Finding an NFL team for L.A. |department=L.A. Now |date=August 10, 2011 |name-list-style=amp |first1=David |last1=Zahniser |first2=Sam |last2=Farmer |access-date=January 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306024002/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/next-challenge-for-farmers-field-finding-nfl-team-for-la.html |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Greater Los Angeles|California}}
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* [[California megapolitan areas]]
* [[List of hotels in Los Angeles]]
* [[List of metropolitan areas in the Americas]]

==References==
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{{Greater Los Angeles Area}}
{{California}}
{{World's most populous urban areas}}
{{Southern California megaregion}}
{{Authority control}}


==Panoramas==
{{wide image|Los angeles from getty panorama.jpg|2000px|align-cap=center|[[Central Los Angeles]] and [[Westside, Los Angeles|the Westside]], as viewed from the [[Getty Center]] in the [[Santa Monica Mountains]]. [[San Gabriel Mountains]] at back left, [[Downtown Los Angeles]] skyline at center-left, [[Century City]] and [[Westwood, Los Angeles|Westwood]] in the foreground and to their right, the [[405 Freeway]]. The [[Brentwood, Los Angeles|Brentwood]] skyline, the hills of the [[Palos Verdes Peninsula]] at back right and the Pacific Ocean at far right.|100%}}
{{wide image|Los Angeles Basin from Mulholland Pan.jpg|900px|The [[Los Angeles Basin]], viewed south from [[Mulholland Drive]]. From left to right can be seen the [[Santa Ana Mountains]] / [[Saddleback (Orange County, California)|Saddleback]] (horizon), [[Downtown Los Angeles|downtown L.A.]], the [[Hollywood Bowl]] (foreground), [[Mid-Wilshire]], [[Long Beach]] – [[Palos Verdes Peninsula|Palos Verdes]] (background), [[Santa Catalina Island (California)|Catalina Island]] (horizon), the [[South Bay (Los Angeles County)|South Bay]] and Pacific Ocean.|100%}}
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[[Category:Tourism regions of California]]