The Pico Neighborhood at a Glance

As part of the City's planning project for future City services called "Community Voices," RAND Corporation researcher Lee Mizell wrote "The City of Santa Monica: A Community Profile." The following information on the Pico Neighborhood, which encompasses Zip Code 90404 and parts of 90405, is from that report.

• Approximately 60 percent of the approximately 90,000 people currently living in Santa Monica reside in the 90404 and 90405 areas.

• Approximately 13 percent of Santa Monica residents live in poverty. Twenty two percent of them live in the Pico Neighborhood.

• While the 1998 median household income in the 90402 area (North of Montana) was $89,000 the median income that same year in the Pico Neighborhood was less than $30,000

• African Americans and Latino residents are concentrated in the 90404 and 90405, while Whites and Asians are more evenly dispersed.

• While nine percent of Whites live in poverty, 10 percent of Asians, 24 percent pf of African Americans and 29 percent of Latinos live in poverty.

• The bulk of the City's youth live in the 90404 and 90405 areas, with 37 percent of teens living in the Pico Neighborhood.

• The largest percentage of female-headed households with children under 18 live in the Pico Neighborhood and the Ocean Park Neighborhood.

• Of the six percent of Santa Monica residents who use government programs -- CalWORKS, MediCal, General Relief, Food Stamps or In-Home Support Services --, 45 percent reside in the Pico Neighborhood.

• Welfare receipt in Santa Monica has declined by 12 percent since countywide implementation of welfare reform, with much of the decline occurring in the Pico Neighborhood.

• The incidence of crime among adults has decreased by little more than 50 percent since 1993. Total arrests among juveniles are down 35 percent.