Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Lawndale, California

Lawndale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 32,769 at the 2010 census, up from 31,712 according to the 2000 census. The city is in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

From the 1780s onward, the Place that is now Lawndale was part of the Rancho Sausal Redondo, a land grant unchangeable by the Spanish colonial dealing out that includes much of what is now the South Bayshore region. In 1905, Charles B. Hopper first subdivided the area and named it after the Chicago neighborhood of the thesame name. Lots sold slowly and swing promotions were tried, such as promoting Lawndale as a chicken raising area. The first railway to manage through Lawndale was the Inglewood Division of the Redondo Railway which would innovative become allowance of the Pacific Electric “Red Car” system. It ran beside the center of Railway Avenue (now Hawthorne Boulevard) until 1933. In 1927, the Santa Fe railroad arrived. After World War II, the enormous demand for housing from returning veterans and California newcomers resulted in Lawndale’s formation as a bedroom community. On December 28, 1959, it was incorporated as a city.

Starting in the 1970s, Lawndale’s relatively low housing prices but more desirable location relative to its next to cities attracted absentee landlords and a substantial ration of its residents increasingly became renters.