The name Vermont Square appeared in newspaper ads in 1909, advertising the community as "the largest subdivision ever put on the market in Los Angeles".

[2][3] In 1996, the community got a LANI (Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative) grant to install trees, streetlights and bus shelters.

[4] In the 1997, in an effort to distinguish the area from South Central Los Angeles, residents of Vermont Square met with historian Gregory Fischer to discuss neighborhood signage.

[6] On April 19, 2002, the Vermont Square Community Garden was dedicated, with Councilperson Jan Perry in attendance.

Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 38.5% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.

[9] Vermont Square residents with a four-year college degree amounted to 5.3% 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.