East Los Angeles, or East L.A., is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, with a 2020 population of 118,786, a 6.1% decrease from 2010. It has the highest concentration of Hispanic/Latino residents (95.16%) of any large U.S. city or CDP outside Puerto Rico.
Historically, the name East Los Angeles was first used in 1873 for the area now called Lincoln Heights, but in 1917, residents renamed it Lincoln Heights. The current East Los Angeles covers Belvedere Gardens, Belvedere Heights, and surrounding unincorporated areas east of the Los Angeles River. By the 1930s, maps began labeling this region as East Los Angeles.









