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Encino (Spanish for “oak”) is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California.

Etymology

The read out Encino is the Spanish language word for “oak.” The Spanish read out reflects the original Tongva language broadcast for the village of Siutcanga, which can be translated to “the place of the oaks.”

History

In 1769, the Spanish Portolá expedition, first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through Sepulveda Pass into the San Fernando Valley upon August 5 and stayed two nights at the Tongva village of Siutcanga (“the place of the oaks”) near what is now Los Encinos State Historic Park. Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary traveling afterward the expedition, named the valley “El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bolonia de Los Encinos” (The Valley of St. Catherine of Bologna of the Holm Oaks). All of Crespi’s proclaim was cutting edge dropped except “Encino”.

Rancho Los Encinos (Ranch of Holm Oaks) was customary in 1845 like a large parcel of former Mission San Fernando house was granted to three Mission Indians by governor Pio Pico. Many ranchos were created after the secularization of the California missions, which began in 1834. Encino derives its publish from the rancho.

Demographics

The 2000 U.S. census counted 41,905 residents in the 9.5-square-mile (25 km) Encino neighborhood — 4,411 inhabitants per square mile (1,703/km²), among the lowest population densities for the city but average for the county. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 44,581.

In 2000 the median age for residents was 42, considered outmoded for city and county neighborhoods; the percentages of residents aged 50 and older were in the midst of the county’s highest.

The neighborhood demographic psychotherapy was whites, 80.1%; Latinos, 8.5%; Asians, 4.9%; blacks, 2.4%; and others, 4.1%. Iran (30.1%) and Russia (6.4%) were the most common places of birth for the 32.8% of the residents who were born abroad—an average percentage for Los Angeles.

The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $78,529, considered tall for the city. The percentage of households that earned $125,000 and taking place was high for Los Angeles County. The average household size of 2.3 people was low later than compared to the dismount of the city and the county. Renters occupied 38.4% of the housing buildup and house- or apartment-owners held 61.6%.

The percentages of divorced residents and of widowed men and women were along with the county’s highest. In 2000 military veterans amounted to 10.6% of the population, a high rate for the county.

Geography

Encino is situated in the central part of the southern San Fernando Valley and upon the north slant of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is flanked on the north by Reseda, Lake Balboa, and the Sepulveda Basin, on the east by Sherman Oaks, on the south by Brentwood, and on the west by Tarzana.

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Economy

The local economy provides jobs primarily in health care (including one of two Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center hospitals), social services, and professional services (accounting and financial services, real estate, and legal) sectors. There are nearly 3,800 businesses employing very nearly 27,000 people at an annual payroll of $1.4 billion.

Government and infrastructure

Encino is in Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors district 3 and Los Angeles City Council District 4. It is as well as represented within the city of Los Angeles by the Encino Neighborhood Council, an instructive body.

The United States Postal Service operates the Encino Post Office at 5805 White Oak Avenue and the Balboa Van Nuys Post Office at 4930 Balboa Boulevard.

Transportation

A Park and Ride lot behind 160 spaces is located at 5174 Hayvenhurst Avenue, which provides connections to various LADOT commuter buses.

Education

By 2000, forty-six percent of Encino residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree, a tall percentage for both the city and the county. The percentage of those residents gone a master’s degree or highly developed was also tall for the county.

Schools within the Encino boundaries are:

Public

Encino is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

As of 2009, there were no public high schools in Encino. Public tall schools serving portions of Encino were Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa, and Reseda High School in Reseda.

In 1982 the board considered closing Rhoda Street Elementary School in Encino. In April 1983 an advisory committee of the LAUSD recommended closing eight LAUSD schools, including Rhoda Street School. In August 1983 the board publicly considered closing Rhoda, which had 262 students at the time. In 1984 the board voted to close the Rhoda Street School.

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Parks and recreation

California State Parks operates the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino. The park includes the original nine room de la Ossa Adobe, the Garnier Building, a blacksmith shop, a pond, and a natural spring.

The Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area, located in Encino, includes the Woodley Worel/Magnus Cricket Complex.
Also included in the basin is the Encino Golf Course and the Balboa Golf Course.

The Balboa Sports Complex in Encino includes a lighted baseball diamond, lighted outdoor basketball courts, a children’s play a role area, a community room, a lighted football field, a lighted handball court, an indoor gymnasium without weights and taking into consideration a capacity for 400 people, an unlighted soccer field, lighted tennis courts, and lighted volleyball courts. The Sepulveda Basin Off-leash Dog Park is a dog park in Encino. The dog park has 6.5 acres (2.6 ha) of leash-free dog area, a 0.5-acre (0.20 ha) small dog area, an on-leash picnic area, 100 parking spots, and public telephones. The Sepulveda Garden Center, a community garden area in Encino, has about 16 acres (6.5 ha) of estate and 420 garden plots.

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Notable attractions

The Encino Velodrome has provided an uncovered oval bicycle racing track since 1961.

Los Encinos State Historic Park features historic buildings, a small museum, and picnic grounds. In 2009 it faced delay due to California’s budget crisis. The Park remains log on today.

The Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area is a large Place with merged golf courses, tennis courts, soccer fields, baseball diamonds, bike paths, and a lake bordered by approximately 2,000 Pink Cloud cherry trees that blossom in the spring. Encino Park was founded going on for 1937 and has a playground, as competently as basketball courts and two lighted tennis courts.

For exceeding a millennium, the area known as Encino was the house of a huge California stimulate oak known as the Encino Oak Tree. It is possible that Encino is named because of this particular tree. (Encino is the Spanish word for “evergreen” or “holm oak.”) It was known for its size and longevity. The tree died on February 7, 1998, after an El Niño storm felled it. Today there is a monument to the tree at the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Louise Avenue where the Encino Oak as soon as stood.

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