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Beverly Hills, California.  Beverly Hills was wealthy and famous long before it was discovered by the movie industry. At the beginning, the city was blessed with a commodity more precious in Southern California than jewels: water. Before the arrival of Spanish explorers, the Tongva led a peaceful life nourished by abundant game and meadows filled with wild oats, cucumber, and prickly pear.

In 1900, Burton Green, along with several partners, purchased "Morocco" for the Amalgamated Oil Company and commissioned a new round of oil exploration. After drilling many unproductive wells, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company in 1906. Green and his wife renamed the land Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.

The City's first streets: Rodeo, Canon, Crescent, Carmelita, Elevado and Lomitas were constructed in 1907. To further development, the Beverly Hills Hotel was constructed in 1912 at the site of the Gathering of the Waters. It was served by a Dinky railroad, as wondrous in its day as the monorail at Disneyland appeared in the 1950s. The hotel became the center of community life, serving as theater, meeting place and church.

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford led the wave of movie stars here when they built their mansion, Pickfair, in 1919. Gloria Swanson, Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, Tom Mix, King Vidor, John Barrymore, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and Rudolph Valentino soon followed and built stylish mansions.

Life during the Roaring 20s accelerated with the construction of a huge wooden racetrack, dominating most of the southern section of the City. The Speedway drove Beverly Hills further toward the center of America's popular imagination via radio broadcasts of races that were on the same scale as today's Indy 500.

Beverly Hills continued to grow. In the 1930s, Santa Monica Park was renamed Beverly Gardens and was extended to span the length of the City. The famous Electric Fountain was installed. A finely modeled sculpture atop the fountain shows a Tongva in prayer, which pays homage to Beverly Hills’ heritage.

Beverly Hills continued to develop as one of the most glamorous places in the world to live, eat, play and, especially, shop. The Golden Triangle, with Rodeo Drive at its center, was built and marketed to the rest of the world as the shopping destination of a lifetime. Many other glamorous hotels opened, notably the Beverly Wilshire, attracting visitors from all over the world.

The City's image was enhanced with the spread of television shows and movies set in Beverly Hills, among them The Jack Benny Show in the 1950s, The Beverly Hillbillies in the 1960s and, more recently, Beverly Hills Cop in the 1980s and Beverly Hills 90210 in the 1990s.

 

Elementary
Beverly Vista School
(310) 229-3665
200 S Elm Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Good Shepherd Catholic School
(310) 275-8601
148 S Linden Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Hawthorne Elementary School
(310) 229-3675
255 S Lasky Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Hawthorne Elementary School
(310) 229-3675
624 N Rexford Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Page Private Schools
(323) 272-3429
419 S Robertson Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA

Temple Emanuel
(310) 288-3737
8844 Burton Way
Beverly Hills, CA

Middle
Beverly Hills Prep School
(310) 276-0151
9250 W Olympic Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA

High
Beverly Hills Adult School
(310) 277-4747
255 S Lasky Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Beverly Hills High School
(310) 229-3685
241 S Moreno Dr
Beverly Hills, CA

Beverly Hills Prep School
(310) 276-0151
9250 W Olympic Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA
 

Zip Codes for Beverly Hills, CA:  90209, 90210, 90211, 90212, 90213

Demographics

zip code: 90209

County Average

State Average

National Average

Neighborhood type

Inner City

Population

8,413

9,550,626

35,484,453

290,809,777

Pop. density

12,268.9

8,392.8

217.2

79.6

Percent male

46.8%

49.5%

49.7%

49.1%

Percent female

53.2%

49.8%

50.3%

50.9%

Median age

39.0

32.9

34.7

36.5

People per household

2.2

2.9

3.0

2.6

Median household income

$57,746

$59,463

$47,493

$41,994

Average income per capita

$39,636

$27,702

$22,711

$21,587

 

Crime

Violent crime risk index

5.0

6.3

4.3

3.0

Property crime risk index

5.0

5.5

4.3

3.2

 

Housing

Median home value

$1,093,275

$355,000

$428,300

$170,800

Median age of homes

39.0

29.6

22.1

27.8

Home appreciation

25.8%

26.8%

13.9%

7.7%

Homes - owned

34.2%

49.4%

53.6%

63.4%

Homes - rented

60.0%

43.7%

40.6%

21.7%

Homes - vacant

5.8%

6.5%

5.8%

14.8%

Commuting by bus

3.4%

6.1%

5.1%

2.0%

Commuting by carpool

10.1%

14.4%

14.5%

14.6%

Commuting by auto

76.0%

70.4%

72.1%

71.6%

Working at home

5.6%

3.3%

3.8%

5.6%

 

Family Facts

Currently married

44.9%

45.6%

52.4%

58.3%

Never married

34.4%

34.9%

30.1%

23.8%

Divorced

10.6%

9.5%

9.5%

7.7%

Widowed

6.9%

5.7%

5.6%

7.4%

Separated

3.3%

4.4%

2.5%

2.8%

Married - w/ children

15.2%

24.1%

37.8%

28.5%

Married - no children

23.6%

22.4%

36.5%

31.3%

Single - w/ children

8.4%

12.3%

14.2%

9.3%

Single - no children

52.9%

40.8%

11.6%

30.7%

Education

High school graduates

92.3%

76.8%

76.8%

80.4%

College degree - 2 year

5.7%

11.1%

7.1%

8.2%

College degree - 4 year

29.2%

24.1%

17.1%

14.9%

Graduate degree

21.7%

12.7%

9.5%

7.0%

Expenditures per student

$6,295

$5,162

$5,571

$5,896

Students per teacher

14.4

21.3

18.8

16.0

Students per librarian

1,321

8,933

5,283

934

Students per guidance counselor

435

8,933

5,283

560

 

Economy

Unemployment rate

3.1%

6.3%

6.5%

5.7%

Recent job growth

-0.0%

-0.0%

1.0%

1.4%

Future job growth

4.6%

-0.0%

1.0%

10.5%

Sales tax

8.25%

8.24%

7.79%

5.63%

Income tax

6.00%

6.00%

6.00%

5.02%

Cost of living index

266.5

145.7

162.8

100.0

 

Health

Air quality

1

1

36

48

Watershed quality

52

52

41

54

Physicians per capita

243.5

235.3

168.6

168.5

Health cost index

122.0

118.8

136.5

100.0

Superfund site index

10

10

65

71

UV index

6.2

6.2

5.2

4.3

 

Climate

Altitude

430

608

1,429

1,058

Rainfall (inches annually)

18.7

16.0

26.2

38.8

Snowfall (inches annually)

0.0

0.3

12.1

24.4

January avg. low temp

50.3

44.9

35.3

21.6

July avg. high temp

77.0

85.4

87.7

86.4

Days of precipitation annually

35

34

61

112

Days mostly sunny annually

290

283

258

205

Comfort index (during hot weather)

50

46

56

44

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