The Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby Van Nuys Community Police Station at 6240 Sylmar Avenue, 91401, serving the community. In addition the department operates Fire Station 78, which serves Sherman Oaks, in Studio City. Los Angeles Fire Department operates Station 88 Sherman Oaks and Station 102 South Van Nuys/Valley Glen in Sherman Oaks.
Government and infrastructure Local government (Median household income reports the amount of money earned by the household that falls exactly in the middle of the pack.) The percentage of households that earned $125,000 and up was high for Los Angeles County. The neighborhood had a median household income of $69,651 in 2008, which was high for the city of Los Angeles but about average for the county as a whole. Iran (14.1%) and Mexico (8.8%) were the most common places of birth for the 26.2% of the residents who were born abroad-an average percentage for Los Angeles. The breakdown was whites, 73.8% Latinos, 11.8% Asians, 5.7% blacks, 4.4% and others, 4.4%. The neighborhood was considered "not especially diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles, with a high percentage of white residents. Renters occupied 58.9% of the housing stock and house- or apartment-owners held 41.1%. The average household size of two people was low when compared to the rest of the city and the county. The percentages of divorced residents and of widows were among the county's highest. In 2000, the percentages of residents aged 19 to 49 and 65 and older were among the county's highest. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 65,436. census counted 61,166 residents in the 9.15-square-mile Sherman Oaks neighborhood, including a wide swath of the Santa Monica Mountains-or 6,687 people per square mile, among the lowest population densities for the city. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 2000 U.S. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 82% non-Hispanic white, 5% Asian American and 3% African American 11% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. Īs of the 2010 census, according to the San Fernando Valley Almanac, Sherman Oaks had a population of 52,677 people and 25,255 households. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Studio City to the east, Van Nuys to the north, Encino to the west, Bel Air and Beverly Hills Post Office to the south. The homeowners in the Sherman Oaks area later won a lawsuit to prevent the agency from managing efforts. The Community Redevelopment Agency sought to manage the rebuilding efforts. The 1994 Northridge earthquake caused damages in the surrounding area. įinally, in 2009, the Los Angeles City council voted to redraw neighborhood boundaries again to allow an area of about 1,800 homes in Van Nuys to be included. As a result of this change, Van Nuys Middle School became separated from its namesake neighborhood. Petitioners in the area argued that their neighborhood was also part of Sherman Oaks, though they were only able to produce 22 deeds showing so. Just a few weeks after the Chandler Estates area successfully seceded from Van Nuys, Magnolia Woods, a 45 block area bordered by Van Nuys Boulevard on the east and the San Diego Freeway on the west, and between Burbank and Magnolia Boulevards, also successfully petitioned Los Angeles City council member Marvin Braude to secede from Van Nuys and join Sherman Oaks.
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Residents in the area argued, however, that the area was originally part of Sherman Oaks, but was labeled Van Nuys instead through the creation of ZIP codes in 1962 a resident produced a property deed to buttress the case.
This request was nothing new to the San Fernando Valley other neighborhoods had either sought to change their names, or sought to attach themselves onto more affluent neighborhoods. In 1991, a group of homeowners living in the Chandler Estates area successfully petitioned former Los Angeles City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky to re-draw the boundaries of Sherman Oaks from Magnolia to Burbank Blvd to the north, and from Coldwater Canyon to Van Nuys Blvd to the west, with the goal of including their neighborhood. Sherman's other major venture was the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad.
The company had subdivided 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land that would become Sherman Oaks. Moses Hazeltine Sherman, developed Sherman Oaks.
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