In the late 1880's the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway erected a station on the modern intersection of Vermont Ave. and Century Blvd.

which became known as the Sunnyside Division[1] In 1920 after a railroad merger, the F Line of the Los Angeles Railway ran a streetcar service down Vermont Avenue to Delta Station on Imperial Ave.[2] Beginning in 2000, the Eighth District Empowerment Congress began working on the "Naming Neighborhoods Project" to identify and name individual communities that had historically been grouped together and regarded as part of South Central Los Angeles.

#01-1874), "Vermont Vista" was officially named and designated as being bounded by the following streets: West Manchester Boulevard on the north, South Vermont Avenue on the west, the Harbor Freeway (I-110) on the east, and 99th Street on the south.

[5] It is bordered by Vermont Knolls on the north, Broadway-Manchester on the east, Gardena on the south, and Athens and Westmont on the west.

Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 31.3% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole.

[7] The project, built on city-owned property, was among the first affordable housing developments funded by Measure HHH.