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Demographic
Information
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Land Area (Sq. Mi.):
9.4 |
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Population:
69,032 |
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African American:
5.5%
Asian American:
1.4%
Hispanic:
88.8%
White:
3.9%
Other:
0.3% |
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Median Housing Value:
$520,000
(average of
east north valley as per Southland Regional Association of
Realtors) |
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Number of Households:
21,373 |
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Pacoima is one of the San Fernando Valley's most
historic communities and sits on land that also was part of the Charles Maclay empire.
For many years, Pacoima's fertile soil produced abundant crops of
olives, peaches, apricots, oranges and lemons. In fact, the Pacoima Chamber of Commerce
was originally called the Pacoima Chamber of Farmers. That was in 1916, a couple of
years after the city had briefly changed its name to Mulholland.
William Mulholland
was the engineer who brought prosperity to Pacoima and the rest of the Valley by
transporting water from the Owens River through the Los Angeles Aqueduct. With the
new water supply, farms and poultry ranches proliferated, and thoroughbred horses were
raised. Two floods took their toll on the pre-World War II agricultural community,
the first in 1891 and the second in 1938. Today residential Pacoima is enjoying a
renaissance, thanks in part to the state's designation as an Enterprise Zone. |
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