Southern California
Los Angeles
Gateway Cities

Lynwood

Lynwood is in the region of Los Angeles County, . It is probably best known for being the hometown of "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Tap on a place
to explore it
lynwood.ca.us
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Octaviogonz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Type: Town with 71,100 residents
  • Description: city in Los Angeles County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Lynwood, CA”, “Lynwood, California”, and “Lynwood, USA”
  • Postal code: 90262
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lynwood station and St. Francis Medical Center.

Railway station
Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.
is an elevated light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located in the median of Interstate 105 above Long Beach Boulevard, in the city of Lynwood, California, after which the station is named.

Hospital
is a for-profit in Lynwood, California, United States, owned by Prime Healthcare Services.

School
Photo: Lynwoodboy22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is one of three high schools in Lynwood, California, United States. It is a part of the Lynwood Unified School District.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Compton and Willowbrook.

Photo: Epolk, CC BY 3.0.
is one of the of , and is mainly known for being the birthplace of rappers Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, NWA, DJ Quik, and The Game, as well as of professional tennis players Serena and Venus Williams.

Suburb
Photo: Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0.
, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States. is situated 2½ miles west of Lynwood.

Hamlet
, also known as East Compton, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

Lynwood

Latitude
33.9248° or 33° 55′ 29″ north
Longitude
-118.2024° or 118° 12′ 9″ west
Population
71,100
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Open location code
8553WQFX+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150932285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5369367
Wiki­data ID
Q849619
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Lynwood from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Lynwood” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينووود”
  • Armenian: “Լինվուդ”
  • Asturian: “Lynwood”
  • Azerbaijani: “Linvud”
  • Basque: “Lynwood”
  • Belarusian: “Лінвуд”
  • Belarusian: “Лінўуд”
  • Bengali: “লেনউড”
  • Bulgarian: “Линуд”
  • Catalan: “Lynwood”
  • Cebuano: “Lynwood”
  • Chechen: “Линнвуд”
  • Chinese: “Lynwood”
  • Chinese: “林伍德”
  • Croatian: “Lynwood”
  • Danish: “Lynwood”
  • Dutch: “Lynwood”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينووود, لوس انجليس, كاليفورنيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لينووود”
  • Esperanto: “Lynwood”
  • Finnish: “Lynwood”
  • French: “Lynwood”
  • German: “Lynwood”
  • Gilaki: “لین‌وۊد”
  • Greek: “Λίνγουντ”
  • Gujarati: “લિનવૂડ”
  • Haitian: “Lynwood, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Lynwood”
  • Hebrew: “לינווד”
  • Hindi: “लिनवुड”
  • Hungarian: “Lynwood”
  • Iloko: “Lynwood”
  • Indonesian: “Lynwood”
  • Irish: “Lynwood”
  • Italian: “Lynwood”
  • Japanese: “リンウッド”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿನ್ ವುಡ್”
  • Korean: “린우드”
  • Ladin: “Lynwood”
  • Latin: “Lynwood”
  • Latvian: “Linvuda”
  • Lithuanian: “Linvudas”
  • Malagasy: “Lynwood, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Lynwood”
  • Malay: “Lynwood”
  • Malayalam: “ലിൻവുഡ്”
  • Marathi: “लिनवुड”
  • Mazanderani: “لینوود (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “لینوود”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lynwood”
  • Newari: “लीनवूड, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “लीनवूड”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lynwood”
  • Norwegian: “Lynwood”
  • Persian: “لینوود، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “لینوود”
  • Polish: “Lynwood”
  • Portuguese: “Lynwood”
  • Russian: “Линвуд (Калифорния)”
  • Russian: “Линвуд”
  • Scots: “Lynwood”
  • Serbian: “Linvud”
  • Serbian: “Lynwood”
  • Serbian: “Линвуд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynwood, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lynwood”
  • Silesian: “Lynwood”
  • Sinhala: “ලින්වුඩ්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لینوود، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Lynwood (California)”
  • Spanish: “Lynwood”
  • Swahili: “Lynwood, California”
  • Swahili: “Lynwood”
  • Swedish: “Lynwood, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Lynwood”
  • Tagalog: “Lynwood, California”
  • Tagalog: “Lynwood”
  • Tamil: “லின்வுட்”
  • Tatar: “Линнвуд”
  • Telugu: “లైనఁవూడ్”
  • Thai: “ลินวูด”
  • Turkish: “Lynwood, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Lynwood”
  • Ukrainian: “Лінвуд”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліннвуд”
  • Urdu: “لینووڈ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Lynwood”
  • Volapük: “Lynwood”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynwood, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lynwood”
  • Yoruba: “Lynwood, California”
  • Yoruba: “Lynwood”
  • “Lynwood”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Lynwood”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Lynwood Gardens and Morton.

Gateway Cities: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Long Beach, Compton, Downey, and Norwalk.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lynwood”. Photo: Octaviogonz, CC BY-SA 4.0.