| Jurisdiction |
Los Angeles Mayor - Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles City Council - Eric Garcetti, 13 th District
Los Angeles County Supervisor, 3 rd District - Zev Yaroslavsky
Los Angeles Unified SD Superintendent - Roy Romer
LA County Children's Planning Council Service Planning Area 4
State Assembly District 45 - Jackie Goldberg
State Senate District 22 - Senator Gil Cedillo
Congressional District 31 - Xavier Bacerra |
| Area Statistics |
Race/Ethnicity: Hispanics/Latinos (of any race) represent 71% of the project area population, Blacks 3%, Asians 13%, and Whites 33%.i
Income/Poverty: 56.9% of all households make less than $25,000 a year. 36% of persons live below the poverty level and 33% of families.ii
Education/Language Spoken: 61% of all adults have less than a 12 th grade education. A majority (85%) of residents speak a non-English language at home.iii
The project area and city have a greater proportion of families with children ages 0-6 as countywide.
- 33% -- 291 out of 878 - of families in the project CT have children aged 0-6.
- 31% -- 2,015 out of 6,596 - of families in the area ZIP have children aged 0-6.
- 26.7% -- 212,981 of 798,719 - of families in the city of Los Angeles have children aged 0-6.
- 25% -- 543,233 of 2,136,977 - of families in Los Angeles County have children aged 0-6.
The mean scaled STAR score for students in the project area was significantly lower than for students in Los Angeles County in 2003 (296.9 vs. 340.6)
- 58% of third graders in the area tested at the below basic or far below basic level in English and Language Arts (compared to 41% of students in LA County)
- 41% of third graders in the area tested at the basic or below basic level in Math (compared to 33% of students in LA County)
- In 2002, 49% of students in the area scored below average on Reading Vocabulary and 45% scored below average on reading comprehension.
- In 2002, 38% of students in the area scored below average on problem solving (mathematics), and 25% scored below average on mathematics procedures.
High Incidence of Low-birth Weight Babies
- 52 babies per 1,000 live births in the project zip were born with low birth weights.
- 71 babies per 1,000 live births in Los Angeles County were born with low birth weights.
Moderate Incidence of Newborn Disability and Disease
The infant death rate in the project zip is comparable to that of LA County.
- The infant death rate in the project zip was 5.4 per 1,000 live births.
- The infant death rate in SPA 4 was 5.6 per 1,000 live births.
- The infant death rate in Los Angeles County was 5.9 per 1,000 live births.
High Incidence of Crime, Domestic Violence and Assault
The City of Los Angeles had higher rates of violent crime, domestic violence and assault than other county areas.
- In the city of Los Angeles , there were 34,760 domestic violence-related calls for assistance in 2002 - 5,461 of these involved weapons. Los Angeles accounted for 58% of all domestic violence-related calls in Los Angeles County.
- There were 13,196 aggravated assault/domestic violence crimes in the city of Los Angeles (up 4.6% since 2001).
- In the city of Los Angeles there were 51,695 violent crimes committed in the year 2002
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