| About Pacoima
- Pacoima is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California,
in the northeastern San Fernando Valley. It is bordered
by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the
west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast,
Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city
of San Fernando on the north. Major thoroughfares include
San Fernando Road and Laurel Canyon and Van Nuys Boulevards.
The Golden State and Ronald Reagan freeways run through
the district.
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Living in Pacoima
People of Pacoima - Latinos and Whites
are nearly even in numbers comprising more than four
out of five Valley residents. In general, communities
in the northeastern, central, and western parts of the
Valley contain the highest concentration of Latinos.
Whites live mainly along the communities along the region's
mountain rim. Burbank and Glendale have an influential
and large Latino communities. San Fernando, Calabasas,
and Hidden Hills are quite homogenous in racial makeup.
Asian-Americans make up 10.7% of the population and
are scattered throughout the Valley floor but some clusters
can be found in Chatsworth, Panorama City, Glendale
and Granada Hills. Lake View Terrace is 16 percent African-American
significantly above the 4.1% average for the Valley.
Although poverty rates in the San Fernando Valley are
lower than the rest of the county (15.3% compared to
17.9%), eight San Fernando Valley communities have at
least one of out five residents living in poverty. Although
heavily-Latino Pacoima is widely known in the region
as a hub of suburban blight, other mostly Latino places
like Mission Hills, Arleta, and Sylmar have poverty
rates well below the regional average and lower than
in some whiter neighborhoods.
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