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La Palma, California

La Palma (luh PAHL-muh; Spanish for "the palm") is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 15,581 at the 2020 census, up from 15,568 at the 2010 census.

La Palma was incorporated on October 26, 1955. It was originally incorporated as Dairyland, and was one of three dairy cities in the region (the other two being Dairy Valley, now Cerritos, and Dairy City, now Cypress) but when the dairies moved east in 1965, the name of the community was changed to La Palma, after the region's Spanish heritage and its main thoroughfare, La Palma Avenue.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km2). 1.78 square miles (4.6 km2) of it is land and 0.02 square miles (0.052 km2) of it (1.32%) is water. This makes it the smallest city in Orange County in terms of area.

The most common native species: Hairy Sand Verbena, Red Sand Verbena, and Pink Sand Verbena.

La Palma was first listed as a city in the 1970 U.S. census. Prior to that, the area was part of unincorporated Anaheim Township.

The 2020 United States census reported that La Palma had a population of 15,581. The population density was 8,748.5 inhabitants per square mile (3,377.8/km2). The racial makeup of La Palma was 25.2% White, 5.1% African American, 0.6% Native American, 50.8% Asian, 0.6% Pacific Islander, 7.5% from other races, and 10.3% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18.9% of the population.

The census reported that 99.8% of the population lived in households, 0.2% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and no one was institutionalized.

There were 5,160 households, out of which 34.1% included children under the age of 18, 61.4% were married-couple households, 3.3% were cohabiting couple households, 23.3% had a female householder with no partner present, and 12.0% had a male householder with no partner present. 15.4% of households were one person, and 9.1% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 3.01. There were 4,156 families (80.5% of all households).

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