Huntington Park is a city located in the South Central region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

[10] The stretch of Pacific Boulevard in downtown Huntington Park was a major commercial district serving the city's largely working-class residents as well as being the retail hub of Southeast Los Angeles County.

As with most of the other cities along the corridor stretching along the Los Angeles River to the south and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, Huntington Park was an almost exclusively white community during most of its history; Alameda Street and Slauson Avenue, which were fiercely defended segregation lines in the 1950s, separated it from black areas.

The changes that shaped Los Angeles from the late 1970s onward—the decline of American manufacturing that began in the 1970s; the rapid growth of newer suburbs in Orange County, the eastern San Gabriel, western San Fernando and Conejo valleys; the collapse of the aerospace and defense industry at the end of the Cold War; and the implosion of the Southern California real estate boom in the early 1990s—resulted in the wholesale departure of virtually all of the white population of Huntington Park by the mid-1990s.

The vacuum was filled almost entirely by two groups of Latinos: upwardly mobile families eager to leave the barrios of East Los Angeles, and recent Mexican immigrants.

Today, Pacific Boulevard is once again a thriving commercial strip, serving as a major retail center for working-class residents of southeastern Los Angeles County—only now targeting a Hispanic public with many signs in Spanish.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), all land.

Cities surrounding Huntington Park include Bell, Cudahy, Los Angeles, Maywood, South Gate, and Vernon.

[13][failed verification] Huntington Park first appeared as a city in the 1910 U.S. Census as part of the now defunct San Antonio Township (pop.

During 2009–2013, Huntington Park had a median household income of $36,397, with 28.7% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

[39] Pacific Boulevard was the busiest shopping district in the southeastern Los Angeles suburbs from the 1930s through the 1950s[40][41] and boasted numerous department stores including the local Wineman's.

[42][43] Art Deco architecture is found in Huntington Park's commercial district, and include the former theaters along Pacific Blvd.

[47] Pacific Boulevard, the commercial business street of Huntington Park, has been the location for festivals, carnival fairs and parades.

The "Carnaval Primavera" is held each year for three days across nine blocks of Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park.

The event features Central American and Mexican food, carnival rides, games, and live music.

[49] In the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Huntington Park is in the Fourth District, represented by Democrat Janice Hahn.