Toluca Lake is a small LA-region neighborhood straddling LA City and Burbank, known for residential character and historic entertainment-industry residents. Most of the Toluca Lake postal area falls within LA City.
Affluent professional-class demographic with significant entertainment-industry residency (the neighborhood has been a longtime entertainment-industry residential pocket since Bob Hope established residence here in 1937).
Adjacent to Burbank's entertainment-industry core. Riverside Drive commercial corridor. Residential-dominated.
Bus service along Riverside Drive. Primary freeway access via the 134 and 101.
LAUSD (LA-side) and Burbank Unified (Burbank-side).
Toluca Lake (private residential lake), Lakeside Golf Club, Toluca Lake Village commercial strip.
Griffith Park (adjacent), the LA River (adjacent), Lakeside Golf Club (private), Toluca Lake itself (private residential lake).
Riverside Drive hosts Toluca Lake's boutique restaurants, the Toluca Lake Village commercial strip, and neighborhood-serving retail.
Toluca Lake Chamber of Commerce community events, holiday tree-lighting events on Riverside Drive.
Bob Hope lived in Toluca Lake from 1937 until his death in 2003. The neighborhood has been associated with entertainment-industry residency across multiple generations — a result of proximity to Burbank, Universal, and Disney production facilities.
Developed in the 1920s around the private Toluca Lake. Strong entertainment-industry residency pattern since Bob Hope made his home here in 1937.
Toluca Lake is a small-scale residential submarket with limited multifamily inventory. The buildings that do exist trade at premium pricing relative to neighboring Valley submarkets because of the neighborhood's residential character and entertainment-industry demand.
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