Considering a move to Los Angeles? Cypress Park is just one of many unique neighborhoods in LA with about a 150 homes to choose from, most in the 300 to 500 range. But don’t jump in your car yet. Find out everything you can on the internet before you make the drive to inspect the neighborhood in person.
Cypress Park which is in northeast Los Angeles was once inhabited by the Shoshone Native American Indians but is now about 85% Hispanic which usually means a lot of the residents there are foreign born, and in Cypress Park 53% were. The population here is quite dense. The average density in Los Angeles is almost 8,000 people per square mile, while the density in Cypress Park is nearly 19,000. Nearly 60 percent of the residents here are married couples and the average family size is a little over four per household.
As far as income goes, median income was just under 43k, about five thousand less than the average for Los Angeles, possibly due to the fact that nearly 70% of the neighborhood’s residents have lower than a high school education. A full quarter of male wage earners here make their money in the construction industry, followed by roughly 20% in both sales and service occupations. Women here work predominantly in sales office occupations to the tune of 44%. Getting to work usually starts in Cypress Park at about 7am and takes 35-40 minutes to get there. Nearly a quarter of those take the bus and the same goes for car pools. Of the remaining workers, nearly all of them take their own cars to work.
So there you have some of the demographics of the Cypress Park neighborhood but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Cypress Park actually rates high when it comes to the nightlife there, which includes the popular dive bars and burger joints. Businesses there are often used as film locations for the motion picture industry. Two of those films were Catwoman and The Fast and the Furious. The TV show Heroes also films scenes in Cypress Park. The hugely popular bar Footsies has been used to film a number of music videos by artists like T.I. and Rihanna.
The neighborhood is also in the beginning stages of an economic revitalization with many of the California Bungalow, Craftsman, and Victorian houses are being restored by private real estate investors. The future is looking bright for this densely populated but not overly priced Los Angeles neighborhood. Good luck and happy house hunting.
