Pasadena Living

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936 and the 160th largest city in the United States. The California Finance Department estimates the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. Pasadena is the main.....

.....population and cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. It is the 6th largest city in Los Angeles County and famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade.

This charming residential city was originally part of an enormous land grant, given to the San Gabriel Mission by the King of Spain. Today, the city has become one of Southern California's most favored residential communities as well as a premiere shopping area in the San Gabriel Valley. Residents can spend a quiet afternoon strolling through the Los Angeles Arboretum where you can get up close and personal with beautiful.....

.....peacocks as they roam freely about, or have a family picnic in one of the beautiful community's luscious green parks. Perhaps you prefer a day of shopping at Santa Anita Fashion Park, or an exciting afternoon of thoroughbred racing. Whatever your interests, rest assured it is not only a city for shopping and gardens, but a place where you will find excellent schools for your children. Pasadena real estate options consist of single-family detached homes, estate properties, condominiums, townhouses and land lots.  The average household income in Pasadena is $75,304 and median home prices are $650,000. The median size of homes sold in Pasadena is 1,454 square feet with a median of 56 days on the market.

Pasadena is located 10 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city is bordered by ten communities—Glendale, South Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia, Sierra Madre, La Cañada Flintridge, Eagle Rock, and Altadena. The communities of Eagle Rock and Garvanza are incorporated within the city of Los Angeles and Altadena is an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County. Despite its location well within the Greater Los Angeles metropolis, Pasadena is a largely self-contained city with its own suburbs (Altadena, Arcadia, La Cañada Flintridge, San Gabriel, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and South Pasadena) and a broad economic base, noted cultural, scientific, and educational institutions, and shopping and dining establishments that attract customers from the regional area.

You might be interested to know that Pasadena has a population has increased by 7% since 1990. The median age in Pasadena is 34.09 and the average household size is 2.54.

Pasadena, incorporated in 1886, has been called "Crown Of The Valley"--certainly apt for its location, influence, and beauty. Some 140,000-plus residents. A cosmopolitan fabric of arts, science, tradition, shopping, jobs, nightlife, and recreation. Give-and-take with neighbors such as San Marino (Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens), Eagle Rock (Occidental College--"Princeton Of The West"), La Canada-Flintridge (Jet Propulsion Lab), enhances the weave. Art Center grads design automobiles, both "foreign" and "domestic". Cal Tech has its share of Nobel Prize winners. The Pasadena Playhouse has fostered quite a number of notable actors, with the Ice House comedy club spawning its schools of laughter. Rose Parade and Rose Bowl attract worldwide attention. Old Pasadena draws regionally for its walk-around shopping/nightlife/fun. No shortage of golf courses. Adjacent San Gabriel Mountains beckon with miles of scenic hiking trails. There are world-class museums galore, both in-town and regionally. Many streets are tree-lined, forming seasonally-green-or-flowering canopies. Variety of housing and locales, from designs by noted architects to tract homes, from studios and lofts to mansions, and from relatively level areas to stunning hillsides. The newer passenger rail line adds flexibility to an approximately 10-mile commute to downtown L.A. Standard test scores in public schools here have ranged widely, and private schools in the Greater Pasadena area serve some 10,000 students. Lesser-known fact: by living in a certain unincorporated area to the east, one may combine the panache of a "Pasadena" address with the prestige and practicality of San Marino public schools.

The Pasadena Unified School District is in charge of the city's five high schools, three middle schools, and 24 elementary schools. More and more students have been enrolling at prestigious and accredited colleges over the years, including Caltech, Occidental, USC, The Claremont Colleges, the UC, and Cal State systems of universities, as well as many out-of-state private and public institutions. Pasadena has the highest per-capita shift of school-aged children from public into private educational settings in the United States.

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