Population & Demographics
East Los Angeles, CA
East Los Angeles is home to 111,647 people. Explore its demographics, housing, and economy — plus how its 47,941 resident workers commute each day.
111,647 residents
Median age 34.7 · U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year (2024).
East Los Angeles population & demographics
Who lives in East Los Angeles — population, age, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.
Race & ethnicity in East Los Angeles
How East Los Angeles breaks down by race and ethnicity — each bar is that group’s share of the population, from the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year (2024).
Race across East Los Angeles
Each dot is a group of people, placed in their 2020 Census block and colored by race or ethnicity — the pattern shows where groups live across East Los Angeles.
These figures are for East Los Angeles proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.
How East Los Angeles commutes
Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.
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How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.
East Los Angeles
47,941 commutes, one dot at a time
East Los Angeles
Where 47,941 workers commute
Where residents work
Top destinations for people who live in East Los Angeles, by worker count.
Who commutes in
Top origin places for workers who travel into East Los Angeles.
Top industries
The sectors that employ East Los Angeles’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.
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