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Pacoima Real Estate - Pacoima Homes For Sale
About Pacoima, CA
Pacoima, CA is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is bordered by the Los Angeles districts of Mission Hills on the west, Arleta on the south, Sun Valley on the southeast, Lake View Terrace on the northeast, and by the city of San Fernando on the north. Major thoroughfares include San Fernando Road, Van Nuys Boulevard, and Laurel Canyon Boulevard. The Golden State and Ronald Reagan freeways run through the district.
Pacoima's first inhabitants were the semi-nomadic Tongva and Tataviam Native American tribes; the word pacoima means "the entrance" in the Tataviam (or Fernandeño) language. In 1797, Spanish colonists built the nearby Mission San Fernando Rey, but the Pacoima area remained without permanent settlement until 1887. In that year, former Republican California State Assemblyman and California State Senator Charles Maclay purchased 56,000 acres in the area with a loan of $117,500 from a friend, U.S. Senator and industrialist Leland Stanford (president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, former Governor of California, and founder of Stanford University). MacLay proceeded to subdivide the tract into agricultural parcels, most of which were used for the production of Southern California staples such as citrus, nuts, beans, wheat, and vegetables. As was the case in most of the San Fernando Valley, the lure of plentiful, cheap water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct proved irresistible to Pacoima's farmers.[citation needed] Los Angeles annexed the land including Pacoima as part of ordinance 32192 N.S. on May 22, 1915.
Pacoima is home to several parks, including Ritchie Valens Park, Ritchie Valens Recreation Center, and Ritchie Valens Pool are located on a site in Pacoima. Valens Park has an indoor auditorium and gymnasium, which has a capacity of 442 persons if it is used as an auditorium. In addition Valens Park has a lighted baseball diamond, an unlighted baseball diamond, lighted indoor basketball courts, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a community room, unlighted handball courts, an indoor gymnasium without weights, a kitchen, a jogging path, picnic tables, an unlighted soccer field, a stage, and lighted tennis courts. The pool is a seasonal outdoor unheated pool. Valens Park was originally named Paxton Park.
The Hubert H. Humphrey Memorial Park, the Hubert H. Humphrey Pool, and the Hubert H. Humphrey Recreation Center are located on a site in Pacoima. The park has barbecue pits, a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children's play area, a lighted American football field, lighted handball courts, an indoor gymnasium that does not have weights and has a capacity of 480 persons, a kitchen, picnic tables, a lighted soccer field, a stage, a center for teenagers, and lighted volleyball courts. The Hubert H. Humphrey Pool is a year-round outdoor heated pool. The Roger Jessup Recreation Center is an unstaffed pocket park in Pacoima. The park includes barbecue pits, a children's play area, a community room, and picnic tables. The Hansen Dam Recreation Area, located in Lake View Terrace, is in proximity to Pacoima.
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Information for ZIP Code 91331 (Pacoima, CA)
Also known as Arleta, CA
Population as of 2010: 104,442
Population density (per sq. mile): 11,242
Population growth since 2000: 7.19%
Median home cost: $212,900
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