Los Angeles is an enormous coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 3,694,834 people and 739 constituent neighborhoods, Los Angeles is the largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Los Angeles is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Los Angeles is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Los Angeles who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.31%), sales jobs (11.43%), and management occupations (8.20%).

Of important note, Los Angeles is also a city of artists. Los Angeles has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Los Angeles's character.

One thing noticeable about Los Angeles is that it has a large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile career starters. That's because Los Angeles is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Los Angeles a great place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun. In fact, Los Angeles is one of the top larger cities in America for educated single professionals to flock.

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Los Angeles are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

Los Angeles Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Los Angeles is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 25.51% of adults in Los Angeles have a college degree.

The per capita income in Los Angeles in 2000 was $20,671, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,684 for a family of four.

Los Angeles is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Los Angeles home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Los Angeles is White, followed by African-American. Los Angeles also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 46.55% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Los Angeles include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

Los Angeles also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 40.94%.

The languages spoken by people in Los Angeles are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Los Angeles is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean, and Tagalog.