Los Angeles
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Outdoors in Los Angeles
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1880
Old Mission Church, 1880
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About Los Angeles
Most populous city in California, USLos Angeles (often shortened as LA or L.A.) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3.87 million residents within the city limits as of 2025, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind New York City, and the largest city in the Western United States. The city has an ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18 million…
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How Los Angeles ranks
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Housing in Los Angeles
The typical Los Angeles home is worth about $930,000, about the same as a year ago, 22% above the California typical home.
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Safety in Los Angeles
Safety Grade D
Los Angeles reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 90% report less. Compared with places its own size, it does better than 31%.
Schools in Los Angeles
All Los Angeles schools →School Grade B-
The public schools Los Angeles’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 51% of California’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within CA. Ratings are from neighbors.
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