Inglewood is in a weird part of the region.
Area-wise, it can join El Segundo and Westchester as part of the LAX/airport grid.
Culture-wise, its reputation is closer to South-Central than the South Bay.
Hubris-wise, it can share specific markers with Gardena and Hawthorne.
It's not South Central because they are their own city. A person from Inglewood once made that *very* clear to me.
And I always thought Inglewood was nice. Lots and lots of people own their own homes there. It's very middle class in a lot of ways. Professionals and homeowners.
Westside in this regard is more of a gang politic and refers to the west side of south central. That’s why hoods will write W/S or E/S and some even S/S. South Central is just really big and can be its own city.
Inglewood is just Inglewood tbh
You’re not wrong, but the term Westside was also used a lot by rappers that kept apartments in the Palms neighborhood right by Woodbine Park. You won’t find a lot of information about it because it was meant to be a place where they could lay low. This is no longer the case however. I only know this because I’ve worked in the music industry for most of my life.
I don’t think he did as he lived in the valley and wasn’t really a gangster, but just kinda emulated that persona and Greg Jacobs lived in Topanga and was definitely not gang affiliated. Eazy E, Snoop and many others did though.
That’s interesting. Never knew that. Also, Palms is close to what Chicanos call the original Westside, Four Corners. It’s Sotel 13 (Sawtelle), Culver City 13, Venice 13, and Santa Monica 13. There’s a documentary about it that I haven’t seen yet but was meaning to check out but this is in regard to Chicano gangs.
Most definitely. The Chicano gangs always roamed those neighborhoods, but the black rappers would just keep hideaway apartments there and usually didn’t interact with them and laid low. There was that one terrible incident in the early 90s when Snoop’s bodyguard killed that Ethiopian kid, but other than that I don’t think anything notable happened.
In some of the mapping software I use for cycling, Inglewood is South Bay. This is data they're drawing from the Open Street Maps API as far as I know. The map tool I use subdivides these regions because it does separate leaderboards per region of the city. When I bike in Inglewood I get South Bay points, basically.
No idea how they made that decision but they did!
It’s the Wood. Really it’s on thing, much like Watts is its own thing. I think it being a historically Black area means it isn’t traditionally thought of as the Westside.
I wouldn't call it the Westside. To me - the Westside region ends at La Cienega Blvd.
In most official descriptions (academic, government, private sector), Inglewood is included in the South Bay. Don't forget that much of the South Bay is made of other non-coastal towns like Lomita, Gardena, Hawthorne, etc.
However..... demographically and culturally speaking - Inglewood is "South LA" to me.
Don't do it. Buddy owns a house in Inglewood. While you are still under Prop 13, so many dumb voter special assessments keep piling up for all the stadiums.
His property taxes are crazy, 0/10 would not recommend.
How crazy are we talking? Looking like my taxes would only be $2k/ year greater than what I pay for my mid wilshire condo, and I’d actually have some land. Also if we sell our place, I wouldn’t get random $5k+ assessments from my HOA we’ve been getting the past few years
If you live in City of LA or unincorporated LA County, you refer to the neighborhood or geographic designations. Similar to cross-streets as a reference point.
The City of Inglewood is a member of the [South Bay Cities Council of Governments](https://southbaycities.org/about/member-agencies/), so "officially" it's part of the South Bay. In other ways it may better fit other areas. It is well-placed at the edge of many regions.
The Eastside exists (Boyle Heights, East LA, Lincoln Heights, El Sereno). It's just not the neighborhoods these hipsters are claiming to be Eastside like Echo Park and Silver Lake.
Yeah I know what validating is. I've never had to do that at a grocery store. Not sure what your getting at. Do you know how to park without having to validate?
I’d say 95% of grocery stores in the LA area just have a surface parking lot where there is no need to validate for parking. I really only see the validation in the bougiest of areas
Have you never left a very small and specific bubble? How have you only seen parking lots requiring validation? Grocery stores in Palms don’t even have an automated arm to park.
Technically it is part of the South Bay but whatever. It’s def not the westside that’s west La, Venice, the areas near ucla palms and near Culver City. It’s not part of south LA either. U could group it with Baldwin hills, Crenshaw, view park but there isn’t an official name to categorize those areas together.
[LA Times says South Bay](https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/inglewood/) but I agree with those who say it’s an area unto itself.
The NY Times recently [surveyed 37,000 people about where the borders of their communities were](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html) and it was pretty interesting. Be fun to see someone do the same for LA.
I would say anything close to the airport is in the South Bay. I grew up with cousins who are from Inglewood and they always made fun of me for living in the valley NoHo). I used to live on San Vicente and Fairfax for 16 years and I always thought I was a Westside girl. I like the valley because it’s so different and much more rural. It’s black and white. I think anything past Slauson or the Howard Hughes exit on the 405 is considered South Bay. I always think of west side being on the 10 Westbound towards the beach.
Westside is West LA if you're west of 405, otherwise West of downtown 110.
I would have said Inglewood was South Central but somebody rebutted that already.
I once heard people in Torrance claim Tito's Tacos as a SouthBay institution, so, I take what people say from Torrance with a grain of salt ;) No, but, seriously I wouldn't consider it South Bay but I also wouldn't consider it Westside. If I had to pick one of those two though, I'd say it's more Westside than it is South Bay just because more of it lies north of LAX than it does south of LAX and I typically consider LAX the divide between the South Bay and the Westside. If someone came in here and said it's considered South L.A., I'd probably tend to side with that person.
Inglewood is very much South Central. Born and raised, and I’m old-ish. Never, ever, ever would anyone identify with the South Bay. Surprised the folks in Redondo didn’t petition to have Inglewood Ave.’s name changed as it runs through…
Let Tupac set you straight:
Uh, yeah, uh, longbeach in tha house, uh yeahOaktown, Oakland definately in tha house hahahaFrisko, FriskoHey, you know LA is up in thisPasadena, where you at
Yeah, Inglewood, Inglewood always up to no good
even Hollywood tryin to get a piece babySacramento, sacramento where ya at? yeahThrow it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it upLet's show these fools how we do this on that west sideCause you and I know it's tha best sideYeah, That's riightWest coast, west coastUh, California LoveCalifornia Love
For us old timers, the Westside starts at La Cienega Blvd. The Eastside starts east of downtown. You could maybe make a case for some of the more eastern downtown neighborhoods like Dogtown. Around Cal State LA, Boyle Heights, and of course, East LA is Eastside.
People calling Echo Park and the eastern part of Hollywood Eastside is a very new thing and, I think, kinda pretentious.
Inglewood is Inglewood. It’s it’s own thing.
Inglewood. Inglewood. Always up to no good.
Agree
The correct answer
Inglewood is Inglewood GANG upvote party here! ⬆️ Edit: no not me, the person I commented on
Yup
Inglewood is in a weird part of the region. Area-wise, it can join El Segundo and Westchester as part of the LAX/airport grid. Culture-wise, its reputation is closer to South-Central than the South Bay. Hubris-wise, it can share specific markers with Gardena and Hawthorne.
This hits the nail for me
Inglewood is a nice part of South Central if anything. It actually a chill place just has a bad rep from the before times
It's not South Central because they are their own city. A person from Inglewood once made that *very* clear to me. And I always thought Inglewood was nice. Lots and lots of people own their own homes there. It's very middle class in a lot of ways. Professionals and homeowners.
Inglewood on paper has more in common Santa Monica or Glendale but culturally has almost nothing in common with them.
I agree with Inglewood being more South Central.
Who in their right mind calls Inglewood part of the Westside?
Dr Dre.
Westside in this regard is more of a gang politic and refers to the west side of south central. That’s why hoods will write W/S or E/S and some even S/S. South Central is just really big and can be its own city. Inglewood is just Inglewood tbh
You’re not wrong, but the term Westside was also used a lot by rappers that kept apartments in the Palms neighborhood right by Woodbine Park. You won’t find a lot of information about it because it was meant to be a place where they could lay low. This is no longer the case however. I only know this because I’ve worked in the music industry for most of my life.
Holy shit - so Westside Village? That's pretty fucking cool. Did Tupac hang there?
I don’t think he did as he lived in the valley and wasn’t really a gangster, but just kinda emulated that persona and Greg Jacobs lived in Topanga and was definitely not gang affiliated. Eazy E, Snoop and many others did though.
That’s interesting. Never knew that. Also, Palms is close to what Chicanos call the original Westside, Four Corners. It’s Sotel 13 (Sawtelle), Culver City 13, Venice 13, and Santa Monica 13. There’s a documentary about it that I haven’t seen yet but was meaning to check out but this is in regard to Chicano gangs.
Most definitely. The Chicano gangs always roamed those neighborhoods, but the black rappers would just keep hideaway apartments there and usually didn’t interact with them and laid low. There was that one terrible incident in the early 90s when Snoop’s bodyguard killed that Ethiopian kid, but other than that I don’t think anything notable happened.
This is the right answer
The 310 area code calls it.
After I read the title but before I read the text of the post, I said aloud, "Inglewood is just Inglewood."
Same!!
Same
Officially, it’s part of the south bay. Culturally, it’s neither the South Bay nor the westside.
Source? Anything other than the wikis…
https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/region/south-bay/
Well it’s zoned community college is El Camino, which is the community college of the South Bay.
A great point.
https://www.metro.net/about/sba/
Don't think I can trust a source that says Watts is part of the South Bay. Try again?
LOL I mean watts and Florence were part of the flat , marshy flood plains. Maybe that’s what they meant .
Inglewood is up to no good
In some of the mapping software I use for cycling, Inglewood is South Bay. This is data they're drawing from the Open Street Maps API as far as I know. The map tool I use subdivides these regions because it does separate leaderboards per region of the city. When I bike in Inglewood I get South Bay points, basically. No idea how they made that decision but they did!
Inglewood is Inglewood. Not westside or South Bay
It’s the Wood. Really it’s on thing, much like Watts is its own thing. I think it being a historically Black area means it isn’t traditionally thought of as the Westside.
Ladera Heights is a black area and is considered to be on the Westside.
Way, way back it was lovingly refered to by my BIL (who had a house at 108 and Prairie) as Inglewatts.
I wouldn't call it the Westside. To me - the Westside region ends at La Cienega Blvd. In most official descriptions (academic, government, private sector), Inglewood is included in the South Bay. Don't forget that much of the South Bay is made of other non-coastal towns like Lomita, Gardena, Hawthorne, etc. However..... demographically and culturally speaking - Inglewood is "South LA" to me.
Inglewood is inflewood
**INFLEWOOD**!!!
Making an offer on a house in Inglewood in the next few weeks. Was wondering this myself recently, perfectly timed post
Don't do it. Buddy owns a house in Inglewood. While you are still under Prop 13, so many dumb voter special assessments keep piling up for all the stadiums. His property taxes are crazy, 0/10 would not recommend.
How crazy are we talking? Looking like my taxes would only be $2k/ year greater than what I pay for my mid wilshire condo, and I’d actually have some land. Also if we sell our place, I wouldn’t get random $5k+ assessments from my HOA we’ve been getting the past few years
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So Santa Monica isn't the Westside, either?
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The region names are used for official purposes and aren’t made up for the sake of being made up
If you live in City of LA or unincorporated LA County, you refer to the neighborhood or geographic designations. Similar to cross-streets as a reference point.
I would say it again because folk in Santa Monica pay a whole lotta of money to have problems most of LA couldn’t care less about.
SaMo Side
Inglewood is part of South LA. Previously known as “south central LA”. It’s not part of the South Bay or the Westside.
Naw it ain’t south central because it ain’t central
No it is not. It's it own thing. It's in the middle of a bunch of everything
South Central is literally the part of LA beneath Central LA, AKA south of the 10 freeway. Inglewood is not South Central.
But Inglewood is south of the 10 freeway, isn’t it?
With that logic Signal Hill is part of South Central.
Long Beach is also South Central :)
North Long Beach*
It doesn’t sit under Central LA, it sure right below the Westside.
Inglewood can’t be part of south central because it’s not part of LA
“Inglewood is part of South/South Central LA” upvote party here! ⬆️. Not me, the comment I commented on.
> Inglewood is part of South LA. i agree with this 100%, not sure about the rest, cant really comment
Inglewood is Inglewood cause it's its own city
The City of Inglewood is a member of the [South Bay Cities Council of Governments](https://southbaycities.org/about/member-agencies/), so "officially" it's part of the South Bay. In other ways it may better fit other areas. It is well-placed at the edge of many regions.
Inglewood is Inglewood. I refuse to acknowledge anything other than the Westside. Whatever people call the Eastside doesn’t exist.
The Eastside exists (Boyle Heights, East LA, Lincoln Heights, El Sereno). It's just not the neighborhoods these hipsters are claiming to be Eastside like Echo Park and Silver Lake.
I grew up in Echo Park. The east side didn’t exist it there was only East LA. Everything else was referred to by name ie Highland Park, Lincoln Park
Pffft, atleast we don’t pay for parking just to go to the grocery store.
Cannot think of a single grocery store on the west side where you have to pay for parking, assuming you actually shop and validate after 1 hour.
You have to validate for grocery store parking?!
Do you know how to validate for parking?
Never have to validate for parking at grocery stores
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Yeah I know what validating is. I've never had to do that at a grocery store. Not sure what your getting at. Do you know how to park without having to validate?
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I’d say 95% of grocery stores in the LA area just have a surface parking lot where there is no need to validate for parking. I really only see the validation in the bougiest of areas
Have you never left a very small and specific bubble? How have you only seen parking lots requiring validation? Grocery stores in Palms don’t even have an automated arm to park.
I’m sorry, what?
lol idk how i feel about the rest, but yeah Inglewood is… Inglewood.
It’s part of the South Bay officially. Popular media likes to lump it into South LA.
“Inglewood is part of South Bay” upvote party here! ⬆️
The Inglewood I grew up in was always Westside to me. Centinela/La Brea is closer to Culver City than Hawthorne. It’s too big.
I agree with this pretty much. Inglewood is a bit big but it seems like the south bay starts at the edge of inglewood around Gardena.
Sorry there is no way inglewood is near Gardena
Technically it is part of the South Bay but whatever. It’s def not the westside that’s west La, Venice, the areas near ucla palms and near Culver City. It’s not part of south LA either. U could group it with Baldwin hills, Crenshaw, view park but there isn’t an official name to categorize those areas together.
We should call it…the Midwest!
Those areas are officially on the Westside.
Not really. Westside adjacent.
It's the Westside. https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hp-neighborhood-spotlight-ladera-heights-20180707-story.html
I didn’t mention ladera heights, which is west of the areas I did mention. Although it does fit culturally with Baldwin hills, view park etc.
Inglewood is just the city of Inglewood..? When I’m working there I just tell someone I’m in Inglewood 😩 This feels like a trick question
South Bay. To me, everything south of LAX, north of PV, and west of Prarie was the South Bay.
But there's Inglewood east of Prairie, too
Inglewood always up to no good
[LA Times says South Bay](https://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/neighborhood/inglewood/) but I agree with those who say it’s an area unto itself. The NY Times recently [surveyed 37,000 people about where the borders of their communities were](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-detailed-nyc-neighborhood-map.html) and it was pretty interesting. Be fun to see someone do the same for LA.
Inglewood is Inglewood. lol Westside, gtfo
South Bay
Older LA resident here. Inglewood is Inglewood except back in the day when it was Westside when westside meant west coast vs east coast.
My family moved to LA in 1920. Inglewood is Inglewood.
South West
The part of Inglewood I consider Westside is west of La Brea & north of Manchester. I know not correct but it’s a feeling.
Its the Centinela Valley
Make this a thing!
It's so close to LAX. I consider it one of the two Airport Cities...the other one is Westchester. But definitely not Westside lol!
I would say anything close to the airport is in the South Bay. I grew up with cousins who are from Inglewood and they always made fun of me for living in the valley NoHo). I used to live on San Vicente and Fairfax for 16 years and I always thought I was a Westside girl. I like the valley because it’s so different and much more rural. It’s black and white. I think anything past Slauson or the Howard Hughes exit on the 405 is considered South Bay. I always think of west side being on the 10 Westbound towards the beach.
I don't remember Inglewood being in the South Bay yellow pages.
¡MUY INTERESANTE!
Inglewood is its own city
So is Torrance. That doesn’t make Torrance “not South Bay”
Westside is West LA if you're west of 405, otherwise West of downtown 110. I would have said Inglewood was South Central but somebody rebutted that already.
>Westside is West LA if you're west of 405 Did you grow up here?
Yes. Santa Monica.
I once heard people in Torrance claim Tito's Tacos as a SouthBay institution, so, I take what people say from Torrance with a grain of salt ;) No, but, seriously I wouldn't consider it South Bay but I also wouldn't consider it Westside. If I had to pick one of those two though, I'd say it's more Westside than it is South Bay just because more of it lies north of LAX than it does south of LAX and I typically consider LAX the divide between the South Bay and the Westside. If someone came in here and said it's considered South L.A., I'd probably tend to side with that person.
Inglewood is a part of the mythical South Central LA.
As a life long resident of the South Bay, no. It cuts off at El Segundo Hawthorne and Gardena to the south.
South LA
Inglewood-Compton-Long Beach. Westside is vague. West LA, the west of the 405 not including the South Bay region, is less vague.
I have always considered Inglewood south LA
South central*
Same thing
Definelty not the South Bay. Inglewood is kind of big enough to be it’s own thing but I’d say it’s the west side
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You’re absolutely right, I was surprised to learn that. Lived in Inglewood for like 10 years lol
If it’s officially part of a place but you lived there 10 years without knowing, I think the “official” designation is meaningless.
Inglewood is very much South Central. Born and raised, and I’m old-ish. Never, ever, ever would anyone identify with the South Bay. Surprised the folks in Redondo didn’t petition to have Inglewood Ave.’s name changed as it runs through…
There's also an Inglewood Blvd. that runs from National in Mar Vista down to Jefferson in Playa Vista.
Yes, the “hood”
Inglewood is not the west side as it’s much too south. It’s also not the South Bay. Not sure what it is actually…
South LA. Far too inland to be part of south bay.
#south central
I consider it to be part of south central or south LA, since it’s quite similar.
South Central
Let Tupac set you straight: Uh, yeah, uh, longbeach in tha house, uh yeahOaktown, Oakland definately in tha house hahahaFrisko, FriskoHey, you know LA is up in thisPasadena, where you at Yeah, Inglewood, Inglewood always up to no good even Hollywood tryin to get a piece babySacramento, sacramento where ya at? yeahThrow it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it upLet's show these fools how we do this on that west sideCause you and I know it's tha best sideYeah, That's riightWest coast, west coastUh, California LoveCalifornia Love
Something else
North South Bay? Is that a thing? I consider it Westside but it’s definitely kind of unique.
It’s the west side and it’s on the west side of the 110…
Westside does not mean west of the 110
For us old timers, the Westside starts at La Cienega Blvd. The Eastside starts east of downtown. You could maybe make a case for some of the more eastern downtown neighborhoods like Dogtown. Around Cal State LA, Boyle Heights, and of course, East LA is Eastside. People calling Echo Park and the eastern part of Hollywood Eastside is a very new thing and, I think, kinda pretentious.
Everybody in the neighborhood considered ourselves east side babies, I never understood though so I’m not sure man
Westside
Westside like what white people mean,or west side like how Ice Cube means?
Airport area.
Inglewood is South Bay
Southbay
Inglewood? it's up to no good