Green Meadows is within the South Los Angeles Community Plan area and is the home of Locke College Preparatory Academy.

Known for its dark loamy soil, with a high percentage of humus; according to one government report, "Dairying and the raising of corn, alfalfa, and walnuts are practiced in the neighborhood of Green Meadows.

"[1] According to the Los Angeles Times of that era:[2][3] The rich alfalfa fields watered from artesian wells furnish abundant food for stock, and the finest butter and milk come from this section.

Green Meadows prides itself on its fine apples, which are equal to any raised in California.On New Year's Day, 1887, it was noted that new arrivals had settled to the west, "on the mesa, where several wells have been bored for domestic use at the depth of about 95 feet, with a raise of the water to within about 40 feet of the surface, and the remaining distance to be pumped by windmills.

[13] According to the Los Angeles Times Mapping L.A. project, the Green Meadows neighborhood touches Florence on the north, Florence-Firestone on the northeast, Watts on the east, Willowbrook on the south, Broadway-Manchester on the west, Vermont Knolls to the northwest and Athens to the southwest.

Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 30.2% of the residents who were born abroad, about an average percentage for the city as a whole.