West Athens
West Athens is a census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 9,393 at the 2020 census. It is an unincorporated community within the 2nd Supervisorial District of Los Angeles County.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 8,730 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Also known as: “West Athens, CA” and “West Athens, California”
- Neighbors: Los Angeles
Places of Interest
Highlights include Los Angeles Southwest College and Vermont/Athens station.
Los Angeles Southwest College
College
Photo: Eric Shalov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Los Angeles Southwest College is a public community college in the unincorporated area of West Athens, California in Los Angeles County, California. It is part of the Los Angeles Community College District and its service area includes Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Unincorporated Westmont, and West Athens.
Vermont/Athens station
Railway station
Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vermont/Athens station is a below-grade light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105 and named after Vermont Avenue and the Athens community where it is located.
Middle College High School
School
Middle College High School is an alternative high school of the Los Angeles Unified School District, located on the property of Los Angeles Southwest College, in West Athens, California, with a Los Angeles postal address.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westmont and Athens.
Westmont
Suburb
Westmont is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, a part of the South Los Angeles area, just east of Inglewood. The population was 33,913 at the 2020 census, up from 31,853 at the 2010 census.
Athens
Suburb
Athens is an unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of Los Angeles Southwest College.
South Los Angeles
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
South Los Angeles is a large region of Los Angeles made up of the neighborhoods south of Downtown L.A. This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.
West Athens
Latitude
33.92401° or 33° 55′ 26″ northLongitude
-118.30028° or 118° 18′ 1″ westPopulation
8,730Elevation
190 feet (58 metres)Open location code
8553WMFX+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 150953282OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
5407841Wikidata ID
Q1669280
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“West Athens” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويست أثينا”
- Basque: “West Athens”
- Catalan: “West Athens”
- Cebuano: “West Athens”
- Chechen: “Вест-Ейтенз”
- Chinese: “West Athens”
- Chinese: “西阿森斯”
- Croatian: “West Athens”
- Dutch: “West Athens”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويست اثينا”
- French: “West Athens”
- German: “West Athens”
- Gilaki: “وست آتنز”
- Irish: “West Athens”
- Italian: “West Athens”
- Ladin: “West Athens”
- Malagasy: “West Athens, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “West Athens”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Athens”
- Newari: “वेस्ट एथेन्स (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “वेस्ट एथेन्स, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “वेस्ट एथेन्स”
- Persian: “وست آتنز، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “وست آتنز”
- Polish: “West Athens”
- Portuguese: “West Athens”
- Serbian: “Вест Атенс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Athens, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Athens”
- South Azerbaijani: “وست آتنز، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “West Athens (California)”
- Spanish: “West Athens”
- Swedish: “West Athens, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “West Athens”
- Tatar: “Вест-Ейтенз”
- Turkish: “West Athens”
- Ukrainian: “Вест-Ейтенз”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ ایتھنز، کیلیفورنیا”
- Volapük: “West Athens”
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