Alondra ParkCA
A town of 8,373.
What should you know before moving to Alondra Park?
FEMA rates its natural-hazard risk higher than 96% of U.S. communities, with earthquakes at the top. Overall it grades C, ranked 395th of 841 in California. 29% of its land is conserved and it is easier to get around on foot or by transit than 95% of U.S. towns. Its weakest subject is cost of living: homes are expensive, about $855K for a typical one and 8.9 times the Los Angeles metro’s $96K median household income. 29% of the land in Alondra Park is conserved, against 4.2% in California’s towns and 4.3% across U.S. towns. Alondra Park is home to El Camino Community College District.
What makes Alondra Park stand out
Where Alondra Park beats most towns, and one thing worth knowing.
El Camino Community College District calls Alondra Park home
How Alondra Park grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within California), ordered by how far Alondra Park is from typical.
How TownRatings grades towns →
SoFi Stadium and 239 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Alondra Park. Close and well known come first.
Big draw4 mi Stadium & arenaSoFi Stadium
Big draw15 mi LandmarkHollywood Walk of Fame10.0M visitors a year
Big draw9 mi MuseumLucas Museum of Narrative Art
Big draw9 mi Stadium & arenaLos Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Big draw4 mi Stadium & arenaIntuit Dome
Big draw11 mi MuseumUSS IowaPhoto credits
SoFi Stadium: Thank You (21 Millions+) views, CC BY 2.0 · Hollywood Walk of Fame: BenSherman, Public domain · Lucas Museum of Narrative Art: Kriddl, CC0 · Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: CanonStarGal, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Intuit Dome: Spatms, CC BY-SA 4.0 · USS Iowa: PH1 Jeff Hilton, Public domain
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Moving to Alondra Park: who provides what
Alondra Park is unincorporated, so Los Angeles County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Alondra Park.
Alondra Park faces a very high natural-hazard risk, led by earthquakes
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Public schools in Alondra Park beat 56% of California districts
Its public schools are run by the Lawndale Elementary school district. One of its 3 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades K–5 | Grades K–5 | 585 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within CA on state tests and graduation
Nearly a quarter of Alondra Park is conserved land
1.0 miles of trail in 2 parks and preserves. The biggest park or preserve is Alondra Community Regional Park, at 199 acres. Alondra Park’s trail density is 0.9 miles per square mile, where California’s towns sit at 1.0 and U.S. towns at 0.4.
| Biggest places to walk | Trails | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Alondra Community Regional Park | 0.4 mi | 199 |
| 2. Bodger Park | 0.1 mi | 11 |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Alondra Park has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Most working residents leave Alondra Park for work: only 2% work in town. 6.9% of workers work from home in Alondra Park. The top destinations are Los Angeles (25%), Torrance (8%) and El Segundo (4%).
| Alondra Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work from home | 6.9% | 14% | 11% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.2% | 6.6% | 8% |
| Below the poverty line | 12% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Average trip to work | 27 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Alondra Park stands out in California and nationally: a typical January night there is milder
January nights average 48.5°, milder than in 98% of U.S. towns; July afternoons average 77.2°.
Alondra Park’s January low is 49°F. Alondra Park has warm winters and pleasant summers, with very little rain. Alondra Park’s July high is 77°F.
| Alondra Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| July high | 77°F | 89°F | 85°F |
| January low | 49°F | 40°F | 22°F |
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
An age mix much like California’s
No broad age group is more than 4 points off the California average. 20% of Alondra Park residents are under 18. 28% of adults 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or more, vs 37% across California.
| Alondra Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 18 | 20% | 22% | 22% |
| Median age | 38.2 years | 39.1 years | 40.5 years |
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±4.1 points. Across California, 50.1% of residents are women.
| Alondra Park | CA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 11.4% | 11.4% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 8.8% | 10.5% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 10% | 9.1% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 15.6% | 14.8% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 10.4% | 13.9% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 13.5% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 13.4% | 12.1% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 11.7% | 9.2% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 5.2% | 6.5% | 7% |
| No diploma | 23.3% | 15.3% | 10.4% |
| High school | 20.2% | 20.5% | 26% |
| Some college | 22.8% | 19.3% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 6.1% | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 18.2% | 22.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 9.5% | 14.4% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates
For cost of living, Alondra Park earns a D−
The median rent in Alondra Park is $1,877 a month. The typical Alondra Park home is worth about $855,000, up 2.1% in a year, 12% above the California typical home.
| Alondra Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 54% | 64% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,877 a month | $1,898 a month | $1,185 a month |
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
On CDC estimates, Alondra Park is healthier than 52% of U.S. towns
Alondra Park beats the California average on 3 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10.
| Alondra Park | California towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 43% | 36% | 33% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 16% | 14% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 71% | 72% | 79% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 22% | 19% |
| What stands out | Alondra Park | CA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer adults who have had cancer | 5.2% | 6.4% |
| Fewer adults with heart disease | 4.9% | 5.6% |
| More adults facing housing insecurity | 19.9% | 14.9% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Everything we know about Alondra Park
Colleges nearby
48 within 15 miles of the center of Alondra Park
About 8 of every 100 Alondra Park residents are enrolled in college, about the same as California.
98% of working residents leave Alondra Park for work
Where Alondra Park’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
About Alondra Park
Place in California, United States
Alondra Park (), also known as El Camino Village, is an unincorporated community and census designated place (CDP) in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the unincorporated area north of Alondra Community Regional Park and El Camino College. It is east of Lawndale, south of Hawthorne, west of Gardena, and north of Torrance. Manhattan Beach Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard are the two major cross streets in the area. The population was 8,569 at the 2020 census, down from 8,592 at the 2010 census. There is an official Alondra Park Post Office of the U.S. Postal Service in nearby Gardena, California. Urbanized cement-lined Dominguez Creek bisects a port…
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- Area
- 1.1 sq mi
- Elevation
- 52 ft
- Area code
- 310
Alondra Park’s neighbors
3 towns share a border with Alondra Park.
It grades higher overall than all 3 graded towns on its borders; Gardena (D) comes closest.
| Town | CA rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alondra Park | #395 | C | D− | — | B | B− |
| Hawthorne | #634 | D | D− | D | B | C+ |
| Lawndale | #610 | D | D− | D | B | C+ |
| Gardena | #585 | D | D− | D | B− | B |
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Questions about Alondra Park
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Alondra Park, CA a good place to live?
It grades B− for health and B for schools. Hazard risk is its weak spot, with a D−.
Is Alondra Park, CA expensive?
Yes. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades D−.