Paramount is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

While the Paramount economy was based largely on the hay and dairy industries, the high cost of land led to their local demise.

According to the 2010 United States Census, Paramount had a median household income of $44,934, with 22.1% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

[33] The United States Postal Service Paramount Beach Post Office is located at 7200 Somerset Boulevard.

[34] In the California State Legislature, Paramount is in the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Lena Gonzalez, and in the 62nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jose Solache.

[36] Paramount has a large community of Mexicans originally from the state of Sinaloa[37][38][39] reflected in the many restaurants selling Mexican food "estilo sinaloense" meaning "Sinaloan style.

Paramount is served by bus service from Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Long Beach Transit.

The city also operates Easy Rider Shuttle [1], a fixed-route local bus.

Collins school is also run by PUSD but is located in Long Beach.

[47] The Paramount Hay Tree is a California State Historical Landmark.

It is a still standing mature camphor tree remembered for its importance to the hay trading marketplace of the towns of Hynes and Clearwater, which later incorporated as Paramount.

Their numbers were quoted by the New York mercantile markets as the global hay standard.

Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr. is the inventor of the ice resurfacing machine.

The city also gives its name to a packaging firm called Paramount Global, which was founded here in 1976.