Cheviot Hills is a small residential district on the West Side of Los Angeles, California. The Westside as seen looking north from Loyola Marymount University . ... Griffith Observatory and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ...

Geography

Cheviot Hills is bordered on the west by Rancho Park, on the south by Palms, on the north by Century City, and on the east by Beverlywood. The district's boundaries are, roughly, Manning Avenue on the west, the Santa Monica Freeway on the south, Pico Boulevard on the north, and Castle Heights Avenue on the east. Principal thoroughfares include Pico and National Boulevards and Manning and Motor Avenues. Rancho Park is a small neighborhood in western Los Angeles, California. ... Palms is a neighborhood in western Los Angeles. ... Century City is a 176-acre commercial and residential district in western Los Angeles, California. ... Beverlywood is a neighborhood on the West Side of Los Angeles, California. ... A typical traffic jam on the Santa Monica Freeway, at 2:30 pm on a Wednesday afternoon The Santa Monica Freeway interchange with the Harbor Freeway, as seen by traffic going westbound on the Santa Monica The Santa Monica Freeway is the westernmost segment of Interstate 10, beginning at the...

The Neighborhood

Originally a part of the Spanish Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes land grant, Cheviot Hills remained a pastoral area well into the 20th century. In the early 1920s, the area was subdivided, but significant residential development did not occur until the late 1930s. The hills that provide the district with its name offer excellent views of much of the Los Angeles Basin, resulting in most of Cheviot Hills' population being fairly affluent. Notably, the district's proximity to the Jewish cultural center of Beverlywood has long made it a chic address for wealthy Jews. Housing in the district consists of upscale single-family homes in the northern portions, with smaller houses and apartment buildings closer to the Santa Monica Freeway. The Los Angeles Basin is the coastal sediment-filled plain located between the peninsular and transverse ranges in southern California in the United States containing the central part of the city of Los Angeles. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...

As a secluded neighborhood centered around golf courses (the Beverly Hills Country Club in the southern part of the district, and the Rancho Park course at the northern end), Cheviot Hills has long been popular among empty-nesters and the elderly. From the 1970s until the late 1990s, crime and poverty in Palms--whose schools also cover most of Cheviot Hills--further reduced the district's desirability to families with young children. However, the Southern California real estate boom that began in the late 1990s made Cheviot Hills a hot destination for upwardly mobile families priced out of West Side neighborhoods like Brentwood and Westwood. Today, Cheviot Hills is considered one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles. This article is about the neighborhood in Los Angeles. ... High-rise buildings line Wilshire Boulevard through the Westwood area Westwood, or Westwood Village, is a district in western Los Angeles, California. ...