[3] Vermont Knolls is a subdivision of single- and multi-family homes that was initially planned by the Walter H. Leimert Company.

The company subdivided it in 1928, originally calling it the Vermont Avenue Knoll, and promoted it in conjunction with Leimert Park, a larger-scale subdivision to the northwest.

On September 21, 1937, 167 new students from 22 different states and two other countries entered classes on a newly built campus on 34 acres at West 79th Street and South Vermont Avenue.

Price, then oversaw construction of the "FaithDome", a $9 million geodesic structure with seating for 10,145 worshipers.

Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 33.2% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.

[1][12] Vermont Knolls' residents with a four-year bachelor's degree amounted to 5.4% of the population aged 25 and older in 2000, which was a low figure when compared with the city and the county at large; the percentage of those residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county.