The Northeast Los Angeles Map and Data Book is the product of Occidental College students in Professor Jan Lin’s Spring 2000 Urban Field Studies class and staff associated with the HUD-funded Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC). The following Occidental College students contributed maps: Jeffrey Chan, Monique Hernandez, Lanae Hunt-Valencia, Payton Phillips-Garcia, Eric Prasoloff, and Noemi Soto. Lanae Hunt-Valencia made a number of zoom detail maps and Rosie Horta perfected and assembled all the resulting maps, and exported them as JPEGs for printing and uploading onto the Internet. She was supervised by COPC Webmaster Pablo Garcia. Bich Ly printed the hard-copy maps. COPC Project Director Maria Cardona and Center Director Jan Lin also contributed and supervised map production. We give special thanks to our GIS consultant Paul Robinson, for his assistance at all stages of the map production process.

Urban Field Studies students, Maria Cardona, and Jan Lin created an initial set of Data Tables. Bich Ly perfected these tables and created many more.

The Maps:
The maps were generated with ArcView 3.2 Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping technology. Statistics were derived from Summary Tape File 3A of the 1990 U.S. Census of Population and Housing. A decennial census has just been completed, and we hope to generate new maps reflecting Year 2000 census data within two years.

The maps which we generated report on census statistics down to the “block group� level, a unit which is larger than “block� and smaller than a “census tract.� We did not have access to data at the more detailed block level, so we mapped using block group level data. The population of a typical block group may vary; thus we converted raw numbers to percentages whenever possible to facilitate comparison.

The Census Tracts:
We thank staff of the Department of City Planning, including Terry Speth and Jeff Beckerman, for their assistance in defining the census boundaries for Northeast Los Angeles. We employ their definition of the Northeast LA Community Planning Area, which comprises 47 census tracts, including: 1810.00, 1813.00, 1814.00, 1815.00, 1816.00, 1831.01, 1831.02, 1832.00, 1833.00, 1834.00, 1835.00, 1836.00, 1837.00, 1838.00, 1851.00, 1852.01, 1852.02, 1853.00, 1861.00, 1862.00, 1863.00, 1864.01, 1864.02, 1871.00, 1881.00, 1883.00, 1990.00, 1991.00, 1992.01, 1992.02, 1993.00, 1994.00, 1997.00, 1998.00, 1999.00, 2011.00, 2012.00, 2013.01, 2013.02, 2014.01, 2014.02, 2015.01, 2015.02, 2016.00, 2017.00, 2031.00, 2033.00.

Apart from maps of the whole Northeast LA region, we provide “zooms� to show areas of high intensity on particular indicators in greater detail. We tended to zoom to Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Cypress, and Lincoln Heights.

Eagle Rock is defined by five census tracts, including: 1810, 1813, 1814, 1815, and 1816. Highland Park is defined by eight census tracts, including 1831.01, 1831.02, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, and 1838.

The Data Tables:
The Data Tables statistics were also derived from Summary Tape File 3A of the 1990 U.S. Census of Population and Housing. The statistical tables compare a range of social indicators across Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Northeast Los Angeles, the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, and the State of California.