A total of 42,284 people lived in Vermont Square's 2.54 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging 17,798 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in the city as a whole. Population was estimated at 47,555 in 2008. The median age was 26, considered young when compared to the city as a whole. The percentages of young residents, aged birth to 18, were among the county's highest. Within the neighborhood, Latinos made up 58.5% of the population, with black people at 39.2%, whites 1.4%, Asian 1.1%, and other 1.8%. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common places of birth for the 38.5% of the residents who were born abroad, an average percentage of foreign-born when compared with the city or county as a whole. The $29,904 median household income in 2008 dollars was considered low for the city and county. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 3.4 people was high for the city. Renters occupied 63.2% of the housing units, and homeowners occupied the rest. In 2000, there were 2,519 families headed by single parents, or 26.7%, a rate that was high for the county and the city. Vermont Square residents with a four-year college degree amounted to 5.3% of the population aged 25 and older in 2000, which was a low figure when compared with the city and the county at large; the percentage of those residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county.
Normandie Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 4506 South Raymond Avenue
Dr. James Edward Jones Primary Center, LAUSD, 1017 West 47th Street
Garr Academy of Math and Entrepreneurial Studies, LAUSD charter, 5101 South Western Avenue
Fifty-Second Street Elementary School, LAUSD, 816 West 51st Street
Western Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 1724 West 53rd Street
Lou Dantzler Preparatory Charter Elementary School, LAUSD, 1260 West 36th Street
Parks and Libraries
49th Street Park, located at 670 E. 49th Street, features a children's play area and benches.
Vermont Square Park, located at 1248 West 47th Street, is opposite the Vermont Square branch library. It contains barbecue pits, basketball courts, a children's play area and picnic tables.
The Vermont Square Branch library is located at 1201 W. 48th Street. The oldest branch library in the Los Angeles Public Library system, it was built in 1913 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie and is one of three surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles. It is a designated a Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. To direct visitors, there is city-installed signage on Vermont Avenue at 48th Street , on King Boulevard at Budlong Avenue, and on Normandie Avenue at 48th Street.
