It lies within the 11th city council district, represented (as of 2004) by Cindy Miscikowski, and it is located in the 90077 Zip Code.
Of several entrances, there are two main ones: The East Gate at Bel Air Crest Drive (accessible from Sepulveda Boulevard), and the West Gate at Bellagio Drive, right before UCLA on Sunset Boulevard.
As of the census of 2000, there are 7,928 people in the neighborhood. The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 86.24% White (82.95% non-Latino white), 1.93% African American, 0.06% Native American, 6.84% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 1.30% from other races, and 3.59% from two or more races. 4.65% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Residences in Bel Air range from mansions to modest ranch and story and half configurations. In general, the higher up the mountain, the smaller the building lot and more modest the homes; however those residences along roads such as Stradella Road have magnificent views of the Los Angeles valley and Catalina Island.
Popular television shows and movies have been filmed in Bel Air, or are said to take place in the community. Exterior shots for the Beverly Hillbillies were shot in and around the 1930's era Arnold Kirkeby mansion at 750 Bel Air Road, which was demolished in the mid-1980's . Exterior scenes from movie like Get Shorty have also been filmed in the area. The popular television sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was said to have taken place in the neighborhood.
LosAngeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States, with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
Los Angeles-Latino community was largely disenfranchised until the 1990s, when redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the City Council for the first time since the 1950s and the first Latino members of the LosAngeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception.
For example, downtown LosAngeles is the area of LosAngeles roughly enclosed by the freeways that ring the area: The Harbor Freeway to the west, the Hollywood Freeway to the north, the LosAngeles River to the east, and the San Bernardino Freeway to the south.
BelAir is a neighborhood in west LosAngeles, California, USA.
The most desirable homes are right off the main entrances of Bel-Air and the country club entrance for these homes have both the views of the Bel-Air Country Club and the rest of LosAngeles.
At her request, the Reagan's house number on St Cloud Drive had been changed from 666 to 668, due to the negative Biblical/Satanic connotations of the number 666.
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