North Long Beach, Long Beach, California

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North Long Beach, California
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Neighborhood of North Long Beach in Long Beach, California, looking east along the south side of the 91 freeway.
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North Long Beach (also referred to as North Town or Northside) is a predominantly working-class area of Long Beach, California. The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by a Union Pacific railroad track and the Bixby Knolls neighborhood. The north boundary with Paramount is only a few blocks north of the Artesia Freeway (California State Route 91).

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North Long Beach is mostly residential. It is home to the Uptown Business Improvement District, which represents commercial property owners on Atlantic Avenue between Artesia Blvd and Market Street and a portion of Artesia Blvd to Orange Avenue. The organization is run by its President Pasha Darvishian. Long Beach Boulevard, and Cherry Avenue. There are some industrial businesses, mostly along the eastern edge of North Long Beach between Cherry Avenue and Paramount Boulevard, serviced by the Union Pacific Railroad.

The northern end of the district is home to Houghton Park, the Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library, Fire Station 12, and Jordan High School, while the southern end includes the Carmelitos housing project and its adjacent small shopping center. On its west side, at approximately Market Street and Long Beach Boulevard, is the site of the original Long Beach civic center dating back to the city's rancho days. The Long Beach Police Department's North Division operates a substation on the corner of Atlantic and Del Amo, at Scherer Park.

According to 2021 U.S. Census estimates, the neighborhood was home to over 93,000 people (roughly one-fifth of the total population of the city). Roughly 69% of the population was Hispanic, roughly 28% were black, roughly 0.9% were non-Hispanic whites, and roughly 1% were Asian. [1]

Demographics

The most common ancestry is Mexican. [2]

Schools

North Long Beach is in the Long Beach Unified School District.

Special events

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References

  1. "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Long Beach city, California". United States Census Bureau. July 1, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
  2. Schiller, Dr. Andrew (29 March 2019). "North Long Beach Long Beach, CA 90805, Neighborhood Profile". NeighborhoodScout. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. "Veterans Day Celebration". longbeach.gov. City of Long Beach.

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