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Van Nuys is a district and neighborhood in the central San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, southern California.
The town was founded in 1911, and named for Isaac Newton Van Nuys, one of its developers. It was the first new stop on the San Fernando Line of the Pacific Electric Railway red cars system, which boosted its early land sales and commercial success.
Van Nuys became the Valley’s satellite LA municipal civic center, with the 1932 Art Deco Valley Municipal Building (Van Nuys City Hall), a visual landmark and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument starting the present day Government Center complex of government services buildings.
Van Nuys is bordered on the north by North Hills, on the northeast by Panorama City, on the east by Valley Glen, on the south by Sherman Oaks, on the southwest by the Sepulveda Basin, on the west by Lake Balboa and on the northwest by Northridge. Its street and other boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Sepulveda Boulevard, the Tujunga Wash, Woodman Avenue and Hazeltine Avenue on the east, Oxnard Street on the south, the Sepulveda Basin on the southwest and Odessa and Hayvenhurst avenues and Balboa Boulevard on the west.
The 2000 U.S. census counted 103,770 residents in the 8.99 square mile Van Nuys neighborhood or 11,542 people per square mile, about an average population density for the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 110,747. During the 2000 census the median age for residents was 28, and was considered young for city and county neighborhoods nationwide.
The neighborhood was considered “moderately diverse” ethnically within LA county limits. The breakdown was Latinos, 60.5%; whites, 23.1%; Asians, 6.4%; blacks, 6%; and others, 4%. Mexico (41.5%) and El Salvador (17.3%) were the most common places of birth for the 49.8% of the residents who were born abroad.
Adjusted for inflation in the same 2000 census the median yearly household income in was $41,134, considered average for the city but low for the county. The percentages of households that earned $40,000 or less were high for the county. Renters occupied 73.9% of the housing stock, and house or apartment-owners held 26.1%.
(source: wikipedia)
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