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Frequently Asked
Questions
Q. Does this map cover all of Los Angeles County?
A. No. This map focuses only on the City of Los Angeles and the city's
districts and neighborhoods. Adjacent cities and unincorporated areas are
labeled in the map with white lettering against a green background. Boundaries
for these communities, however, are not specifically shown.
Note: if you are looking for an affordable
but colorful wall map of the entire county of Los Angeles, we will be releasing,
in early 2009, our new laminated wall map of
all of Los Angeles County. It will feature the entire county including all of the 88
incorporated cities and more
than 100 unincorporated communities in an easy-to-delineate, vibrant and
colorful layout.
Q. Does this map show zip codes?
A. Zip codes and zip code boundaries are not shown in the City of Los
Angeles Neighborhood Map. We do, however, offer a similar map, featuring all ZIP codes
and boundaries wholly or partially within the City of Los Angeles.
Click here to learn more about this map.
Q. How did you come up with boundaries for
L.A. districts and neighborhoods?
A. Initially, we started with city planning areas, as outlined by the
Los Angeles City Department of Planning. These boundaries served as our
initial baselines. We further layered in zip code boundaries and census tract
boundaries. Thereupon, we were adjusted a number of boundaries and added
additional districts and neighborhoods not outlined in city planning maps. We
further researched any opinions we could find on customary and traditional
neighborhood boundaries and made adjustments accordingly. None of this, of
course, was easy. There are conflicting opinions and, in some cases, we could
not find much information. We made a number of inevitable compromises in our
best judgment, but do expect to add additional boundaries in a future edition
of the map.
Q. Does this map show streets that
serve as neighborhood boundaries?
A. Yes. In most cases where we show boundaries, we label the streets,
highways, railroad tracks, or bodies of water that form neighborhood
boundaries. For some neighborhoods, however, we did not show boundaries (see
next question).
Q. Why are some neighborhoods shown in this
map without boundaries?
A. Many neighborhoods are smaller communities within larger city districts.
Where neighborhoods were large enough, defined enough, and distinctive enough
(whether demographically or geographically), we outlined their boundaries
wherever possible, even if technically part of a larger district.
Other neighborhoods, however, are quite small (perhaps only a few blocks) and not
altogether distinctive from their larger districts. We also chose not to
display any neighborhood as an island surrounded by a single larger district.
In yet a few other cases, we could not find sufficient information
about where the boundaries actually lay. In these cases, we simply located the
neighborhood label without any boundaries in its general location within its
larger district.
Q. Are all neighborhoods in Los Angeles shown
in this map?
A. Admittedly, we uncovered dozens of neighborhood names for which we were
unable to find any definitive information. We believe that many of these are
older neighborhood names not commonly known or used today. Wherever possible,
however, we labeled every neighborhood for which we had at least some general
location information and where the neighborhood consisted of more than a street or
a block. We do plan, in future editions of this map, to label more
neighborhoods.
Return to
City of Los Angeles Neighborhoods Map Page
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