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CV Stats by Los Angeles County Neighborhood: Elites Hardest Hit

By Steve Sailer

04/02/2020

I’ve matched up, as best I can, the L.A. Times’ April 1, 2020 count of coronavirus cases in huge Los Angeles County vs. the Times’ estimates of population. Some of these are municipalities (e.g., West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Compton), others are the Times‘ definition of a neighborhood within Los Angeles city (e.g., Hancock Park, Century City, Bel-Air). (About a decade ago the L.A. Times invited public comment for several months to develop a consensus of what are the boundaries of L.A. City’s constituent neighborhoods such as Hollywood.)

The basic pattern is that the rate of coronavirus cases per 100,000 correlates positively with real estate prices.

E.g., #1 Carthay is a nice neighborhood south of the LA County Museum of Art on Wilshire, Hancock Park is next door (that’s where Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner grew up). It’s also known as Little Ethiopia, which is a new one to me. When I was at UCLA four decades ago, one of the two most beautiful girls I knew was the daughter of the former Ethiopian ambassador to Washington, whose career was terminated by the Communists murdering the Emperor Ras Tafari by smothering him with with a silken pillow.

Century City is the high rise district next to Beverly Hills, Playa Vista is a beach town near LAX, Beverly Crest is the part of Los Angeles higher up in the Hollywood Hills than Beverly Hills, etc.

These are largely white neighborhoods in the general vicinity of the Hollywood Hills. The residents probably get invited to an above average number of parties, premiers, and meet and greets and probably have more people wanting to shake their hands: i.e., Tom Hanks Disease.

At the bottom of the list are a bunch of dumpy Latino neighborhoods, with the exception of the high-brow college town of Claremont. I didn’t include neighborhoods with no cases listed. The largest was East L.A., which is Mexican.

Black neighborhoods like Ladera Heights, Leimert Park, and Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw appear to be rather hard hit. Lots of blacks work at LAX, and airport workers might be particularly hard hit, like in the neighborhoods next to La Guardia in Queens.

Affluent Chinese suburbs like Arcadia, San Marino, and Monterey Park are below the median rate. The small Chinatown in downtown L.A. has only 2 cases and ranks only 118th out of 189th worst. Also mostly passed over is Koreatown, which is just east of hard-hit Hancock Park. Koreatown is 145th worst of 189.

The gayest neighborhood, West Hollywood, ranks #7.

Most of the top of the list neighborhoods are fairly Jewish. Los Angeles doesn’t have a lot of ultra-orthodox Jews, a group that has been hard hit in the New York area. Maybe Valley Village?

A good article in The Forward warned its Jewish readers:

Why American Jews are at greater risk for coronavirus
Samuel J. Abrams March 20, 2020

… That’s because Jews today are among the most socially intimate groups in the nation, according to data. The Jewish American community, from the most religious to the most secular, is at unique risk from the coronavirus because the density of Jewish social networks across all denominations is almost twice as thick as that of the average American.

A horrible pattern has been that this disease tends to get spread by each group’s more admirable and sociable customs: Italians go visit their grandparents, Germanics go skiing, Presbyterians go to choir practice, Jews go out to lunch with old friends. In contrast, the nationality with the worst trend toward loneliness and holing up in their rooms, the Japanese, seem to be doing the best in this crisis.

The table below suggests that so far this has largely been a disease spread by elites.

Keep in mind that California is lagging almost every other state in the union in percentage of population tested, so who knows whether these stats reflect actual infection rates or ability to pull strings to get tested.

April 1, 2020 Los Angeles Times
CV cases Population per 100,000
1 Carthay 17 4,866 349
2 Hancock Park 33 9,804 337
3 Century City 17 5,513 308
4 Playa Vista 7 2,416 290
5 Beverlywood 15 6,080 247
6 Beverly Crest 22 10,852 203
7 West Hollywood 64 35,716 179
8 Bel-Air 12 7,691 156
9 Hollywood Hills 32 21,588 148
10 Athens 13 9,101 143
11 Brentwood 39 31,344 124
12 Manhattan Beach 41 34,039 120
13 Beverly Hills 39 33,829 115
14 Cheviot Hills 8 6,945 115
15 Palos Verdes Estates 15 13,340 112
16 Valley Village 23 24,190 95
17 Hollywood 67 77,818 86
18 Tarzana 29 35,502 82
19 Silver Lake 25 30,972 81
20 Rancho Dominguez 2 2,526 79
21 Elysian Park 2 2,530 79
22 Redondo Beach 50 63,261 79
23 Ladera Heights 5 6,509 77
24 Encino 32 41,905 76
25 Glassell Park 16 23,467 68
26 Hermosa Beach 12 18,442 65
27 West Adams 14 21,764 64
28 Palms 27 42,545 63
29 Santa Monica 53 84,084 63
30 Del Rey 17 28,010 61
31 Sherman Oaks 37 61,166 60
32 Marina del Rey 5 8,302 60
33 Leimert Park 7 11,782 59
34 University Park 14 23,596 59
35 North Hollywood 45 77,848 58
36 Lake Balboa 14 24,238 58
37 Calabasas 13 23,130 56
38 Studio City 19 34,034 56
39 Westwood 26 47,916 54
40 Downtown 15 27,849 54
41 West Carson 11 21,010 52
42 Sunland 8 15,316 52
43 Chatsworth 18 35,073 51
44 Mar Vista 18 35,492 51
45 Agoura Hills 10 20,324 49
46 Carson 44 89,549 49
47 Woodland Hills 29 59,661 49
48 Venice 18 37,705 48
49 Rancho Park 2 4,295 47
50 North Whittier 2 4,351 46
51 Torrance 63 137,933 46
52 Adams-Normandie 8 17,596 45
53 Glendale 86 195,047 44
54 Culver City 17 38,816 44
55 Westchester 18 41,500 43
56 Sylmar 30 69,499 43
57 Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw 13 30,123 43
58 Los Feliz 14 35,238 40
59 La Cañada Flintridge 8 20,381 39
60 Burbank 39 100,316 39
61 Harvard Park 4 10,297 39
62 Rancho Palos Verdes 16 41,301 39
63 South Park 11 30,496 36
64 Lennox 8 22,950 35
65 Downey 37 107,323 34
66 Eagle Rock 11 32,493 34
67 Cudahy 8 24,208 33
68 Mission Hills 6 18,237 33
69 Inglewood 37 112,482 33
70 Bell 12 36,667 33
71 Reseda 20 62,174 32
72 Porter Ranch 8 24,923 32
73 Santa Clarita 50 157,447 32
74 Central-Alameda 13 40,947 32
75 Bellflower 23 72,829 32
76 Vermont Vista 7 23,291 30
77 Harbor City 7 23,561 30
78 South Pasadena 7 24,303 29
79 Mid-Wilshire 12 41,683 29
80 Long Beach 133 462,731 29
81 Lynwood 20 69,899 29
82 Maywood 8 28,083 28
83 Green Meadows 8 28,381 28
84 Granada Hills 14 50,535 28
85 Elysian Valley 2 7,387 27
86 Harvard Heights 5 18,587 27
87 Lancaster 32 120,783 26
88 South Gate 25 96,418 26
89 West Hills 10 38,814 26
90 Exposition Park 8 31,062 26
91 Toluca Lake 2 7,782 26
92 Winnetka 12 46,943 26
93 Hawthorne 22 86,265 26
94 Wilmington 13 51,517 25
95 Mid-City 13 52,197 25
96 Pasadena 33 134,941 24
97 Vermont Knolls 5 20,616 24
98 Gardena 14 57,818 24
99 Rolling Hills Estates 2 8,334 24
100 Florence-Firestone 14 60,154 23
101 Stevenson Ranch 2 8,609 23
102 Westlake Village 2 8,663 23
103 Harbor Gateway 9 39,688 23
104 Lakewood 18 79,412 23
105 Arcadia 12 52,951 23
106 Arleta 7 31,068 23
107 Del Aire 2 9,039 22
108 Lawndale 7 31,729 22
109 Hyde Park 8 36,635 22
110 Signal Hill 2 9,273 22
111 Quartz Hill 2 9,351 21
112 Sun Village 2 9,375 21
113 Pico-Union 9 42,324 21
114 San Fernando 5 23,534 21
115 Huntington Park 13 61,370 21
116 East La Mirada 2 9,442 21
117 Northridge 12 57,561 21
118 Chinatown 2 9,610 21
119 North Hills 11 53,095 21
120 Playa del Rey 2 9,755 21
121 Norwalk 21 103,223 20
122 Compton 19 94,384 20
123 Gramercy Park 2 10,047 20
124 La Mirada 9 46,782 19
125 Watts 7 36,815 19
126 Monrovia 7 36,817 19
127 Sierra Madre 2 10,578 19
128 Tujunga 5 26,527 19
129 Canoga Park 10 53,227 19
130 Lincoln Heights 5 26,616 19
131 Paramount 10 55,319 18
132 Castaic 3 16,843 18
133 Covina 9 50,954 18
134 San Pedro 14 80,065 17
135 Manchester Square 2 11,594 17
136 Panorama City 11 65,766 17
137 Van Nuys 17 103,770 16
138 East Hollywood 12 73,967 16
139 Boyle Heights 15 92,756 16
140 Malibu 2 12,514 16
141 Commerce 2 12,583 16
142 West Los Angeles 2 12,659 16
143 Azusa 7 44,384 16
144 Mount Washington 2 12,728 16
145 Koreatown 18 115,070 16
146 Highland Park 9 57,566 16
147 Cerritos 8 51,831 15
148 San Marino 2 12,973 15
149 Palmdale 18 117,432 15
150 Shadow Hills 2 13,098 15
151 San Gabriel 6 39,306 15
152 Alhambra 13 85,961 15
153 Monterey Park 9 59,933 15
154 Hacienda Heights 8 53,525 15
155 Echo Park 6 40,455 15
156 La Puente 6 41,009 15
157 Willowbrook 5 34,336 15
158 South Whittier 8 55,285 14
159 San Dimas 5 35,064 14
160 Pico Rivera 9 63,151 14
161 Glendora 7 50,177 14
162 Valley Glen 8 59,230 14
163 Atwater Village 2 14,888 13
164 Hawaiian Gardens 2 14,915 13
165 Walnut 4 30,004 13
166 El Segundo 2 15,970 13
167 Westlake 13 103,839 13
168 Artesia 2 16,380 12
169 Sun Valley 9 75,848 12
170 Bell Gardens 5 44,054 11
171 Montebello 7 61,960 11
172 Santa Fe Springs 2 17,834 11
173 Diamond Bar 6 56,784 11
174 Rowland Heights 5 47,524 11
175 Lomita 2 19,984 10
176 El Sereno 4 40,954 10
177 South El Monte 2 20,935 10
178 Pacoima 7 75,014 9
179 Duarte 2 21,486 9
180 Valinda 2 21,568 9
181 Pomona 13 150,269 9
182 Claremont 3 35,397 8
183 West Covina 7 104,893 7
184 La Verne 2 33,117 6
185 Rosemead 3 53,280 6
186 El Monte 6 116,249 5
187 Vermont Square 2 45,284 4
188 Baldwin Park 3 75,753 4
189 Temple City 1 33,296 3

You could figure out the trajectory of these rates by neighborhood by going back to the L.A. Times’ earlier versions of this article (google Wayback Machine Archive).


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