Athens is an unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census. It is the home site of Los Angeles Southwest College.

Geography

Athens is south of unincorporated Westmont, east of Hawthorne, north of Gardena, and west of the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles.

The ZIP Code is 90044; the community is in telephone area code 323 and area code 310. It lies at an elevation of 171 feet (52 m).

See also

  • West Athens

References

  • Athens Services
  • "The Bastard Question: A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war", LA Weekly article that reports on a movie by Cle "Bone" Sloan about the Athens Park Bloods gang and other gangs in Los Angeles
  • The Homicide Report Homicide report for Athens, Los Angeles Times