Inglewood is a majority-Black and Latino city of roughly 105,000 immediately south of LAX, transformed over the last decade by the arrival of SoFi Stadium, the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum. The housing stock is heavily multifamily — courtyard buildings, dingbats and mid-century walk-ups across Morningside Park, North Inglewood, Fairview Heights and Centinela — much of it built between the 1920s and the 1970s and much of it now sitting inside one of the most watched investment stories in Los Angeles County.
Roughly 105,000 residents. Historically a majority-Black city and still one of the most significant Black communities in Southern California, now with a large and growing Latino population. Median household income sits below the county median, and the renter share is high — well above half of households.
Historically an aerospace and aviation economy tied to LAX and the surrounding industrial belt. Today the driver is sports, entertainment and hospitality: SoFi Stadium (2020), the Intuit Dome (2024), the Kia Forum, and the development around them. LAX remains one of the largest single employers in the region. The city has drawn substantial outside capital since the stadium was announced, and the resulting displacement pressure is the central political fact of local housing policy.
Metro's K Line (formerly Crenshaw/LAX) runs through the city with stations at Downtown Inglewood, Fairview Heights and Westchester/Veterans, connecting to the C Line and, via the LAX/Metro Transit Center, to the airport people mover. The Inglewood Transit Connector, an automated people mover linking the K Line to the stadium district, has been in development. The 405 and 105 freeways both border the city.
Inglewood Unified School District, which was under state administration for over a decade following a 2012 takeover. Charter and private options are widely used. Morningside High School and Inglewood High School are the principal public secondary schools.
SoFi Stadium and the surrounding Hollywood Park development. Intuit Dome. Kia Forum. Randy's Donuts, the giant rooftop doughnut on Manchester, one of the most photographed objects in Los Angeles. Centinela Adobe. Inglewood Park Cemetery.
Edward Vincent Jr. Park, Darby Park, Rogers Park and Centinela Park. The Kia Forum, SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome collectively make the city one of the densest concentrations of large-venue entertainment in the United States.
Market Street and La Brea Avenue anchor the local dining scene, with long-established soul food, Belizean, Mexican and Salvadoran restaurants. Randy's Donuts is the city's most recognisable food landmark. The stadium district has brought national chains and higher-priced hospitality that sits alongside, rather than replacing, the older commercial corridors.
Events at SoFi Stadium and the Intuit Dome dominate the calendar, including NFL fixtures for two franchises and major concerts. The city hosts a Juneteenth celebration and the Inglewood Open Streets event. SoFi Stadium is a venue for the 2028 Olympic Games.
Tyra Banks, Mike Tyson (as a teenager), Omarion, Kendrick Lamar's early associations with the area, and generations of Lakers and Kings players during the Forum era.
Founded in 1888 on land from the Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela, Inglewood grew as a streetcar suburb and then as an aerospace town. It was a sundown town with racially restrictive covenants for much of the twentieth century; the demographic transformation came in the 1960s and 1970s. The Forum opened in 1967 and Inglewood became the home of the Lakers and Kings until 1999. Hollywood Park racetrack closed in 2013, and its 300-acre site became the stadium district that redefined the city.
Inglewood is the submarket where the regulatory footnote is the whole deal. It is its own city, so LA City's RSO does not apply and neither does Measure ULA — on a sale above $5.4 million that second point is worth 4% of the gross price. But Inglewood has its own rent control ordinance, and its coverage line is a rolling fifteen-year exemption rather than a fixed 1978 date, which means a 2009 building is covered here when an equivalent building inside LA City would not be. Owners who assume 'not LA City, therefore not rent controlled' price their building wrong in both directions.
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