Exposition Park

Exposition Park is the name of more than one place:

Exposition Park, Los Angeles

The Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles is a 1.85-square-mile district in South Los Angeles with about 33,000 residents. The neighborhood includes Exposition Park itself, with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Exposition Rose Garden and three museums.

Geography

The Exposition Park neighborhood is flanked by Adams-Normandie on the north, University Park on the northeast, Historic South Central on the east, Vermont Square on the south, and Hyde Park and Leimert Park on the west. It is bounded by Jefferson Boulevard on the north, Vermont Avenue on the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on the south and Arlington Avenue on the west, to which is added all of Exposition Park and additional land along both sides of Figueroa Street east to the Harbor Freeway.

Population

A total of 31,062 people lived in the neighborhood's 1.85 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 16,819 people per square mile, among the highest population densities for both the city and the county. By 2008 the population had increased to 33,458, the city has estimated.

Exposition Park (Los Angeles)

Exposition Park is situated in South Los Angeles, California, in a rectangle bounded by Exposition Boulevard to the north, South Figueroa Street to the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the south and Menlo Avenue to the west. It is directly south of the main campus of the University of Southern California.

The park is public space owned by the state of California.

Features

Exposition Park houses: