[2]After the founding of the USC, the North University Park neighborhood was developed thanks to an influx of wealthy citizens.

[1][3] University Park is flanked by Pico-Union on the north, Downtown Los Angeles on the northeast, Historic South Central on the east, the Exposition Park neighborhood on the south and west and Adams-Normandie on the west.

Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 42.4% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city as a whole.

[1] In the same year there were 198 military veterans, or 1% of the population, considered low when compared to the city and county as a whole.

[1] Just 23.7% of University Park residents aged 25 or older had completed a four-year degree in 2000, about average when compared with the city and the county at large, but the percentage of those residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county.