Athens, California

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Athens has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no specific census information for this community.

Athens is located in Los Angeles County and for a more general look at the area, please visit our Census Page for Los Angeles County.

While Athens does not have census information, you might be interested in some nearby communites that do:

	Community	Population<1>	Direction	Distance<2>
	Los Angeles	3,694,820	NW	10 mi [16.09 km]
	Long Beach	461,522	SE	11 mi [17.7 km]
	Santa Ana	337,977	SE	26 mi [41.84 km]

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Athens.

Population Rings

To help identify the number of people who live in Athens and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Athens. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<3> We don't have the population of Athens, so its people haven't been included.

US Census QuickFacts

The Census Bureau has created documents containing demographic information called QuickFacts. Although they haven't created a QuickFact for Athens, there are QuickFacts available for the following nearby communities:

	Community	Census QuickFact	Direction	Distance	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Gardena	QF-0628168	SW	2 mi [3.22 km]	58,554	1.4% increase
	Compton	QF-0615044	SE	3 mi [4.83 km]	93,851	0.38% increase
	Hawthorne	QF-0632548	W	3 mi [4.83 km]	84,305	0.23% increase
	Inglewood	QF-0636546	NW	4 mi [6.44 km]	112,714	0.12% increase
	Lawndale	QF-0640886	SW	4 mi [6.44 km]	31,346	1.15% decrease
	Lynwood	QF-0644574	E	4 mi [6.44 km]	70,025	0.26% increase
	Carson	QF-0611530	S	5 mi [8.05 km]	92,366	2.94% increase
	Huntington Park	QF-0636056	NE	5 mi [8.05 km]	60,898	0.73% decrease

For more about neighboring communities, please visit our Neighborhood Page for Athens.

A Census Quickfact is available for Los Angeles County (QF-06037).

Below are QuickFacts for the counties that border Los Angeles County.

	County	Census QuickFact	Direction	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Kern	QF-06029	N	800,458	20.64% increase
	Orange	QF-06059	SE	3,010,759	5.38% increase
	San Bernardino	QF-06071	E	2,015,355	17.26% increase
	Ventura	QF-06111	W	797,740	5.46% increase

Miscellaneous Information

The Federal government has assigned identifying codes to each community, county and state. The following FIPS codes apply to Athens:

Athens is located in Census Region #4 (the West Region) and in Division #9 (the Pacific Division).

For more information about various Federal Codes, please visit our Misc. Page for Athens.

The Commemorative Quarter for California<4>

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Athens. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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