El Sereno on the east side of Los Angeles: permits, LAPD offenses inside the council's outline, with parks, schools and bus lines.
Search this neighborhoodEl Sereno, officially listed as the LA-32 Neighborhood Council, sits in the eastern part of Los Angeles, with Arroyo Seco, Highland Park and Lincoln Heights beside it and the Alhambra and South Pasadena city limits along its edges. About 42,500 people live inside the council's outline. Local place names in the data include Rose Hill, Montecito Heights and University Hills.
Ascot Hills Park, California State University Los Angeles and El Sereno Recreation Center are among the places mapped inside the outline. Metro Local lines 665, 78, 76, 179 and 182 stop inside the outline. Zoning in El Sereno is led by single-family residential (R1, RE20), followed by multi-family residential; the exact district varies by parcel. Every layer on this page is clipped to the council's outline.
CivicScout counts LAPD reported offenses that carry a location, clipped to the El Sereno Neighborhood Council outline (LAPD places each offense on its hundred block, so offenses on a boundary street can fall on either side). About 1.9% of El Sereno’s residents live in census blocks inside the Cal State LA campus (campus police), which the LAPD feed omits, and the per-resident rate leaves them out. Traffic crashes and food inspections are not available for Los Angeles (LAPD’s collision feed stopped updating in March 2025), so their absence here means no data, not no incidents.
View safety data →LADBS issued 293 permits for addresses in El Sereno over the past 12 months in the public data: 55% alterations and repairs and 17% new buildings. Among alteration, addition and new-building permits, the most common use is single family (56%).
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in El Sereno is led by single-family residential (R1, RE20), followed by multi-family residential; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any El Sereno address combines permits, LAPD offenses, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. Traffic crashes, food inspections and code violations are not available for Los Angeles.
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