East Los Angeles, CA Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
630 ft 195 m510 ft 155 m450 ft 140 m330 ft 100 m220 ft 65 m160 ft 45 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official CDP boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
East Los Angeles sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 180–430 ft
Lowest
160 ft 45 m
on the southeast side
Highest
630 ft 190 m
on the north side
Average
280 ft 85 m
all land inside the CDP boundary
East Los Angeles spans about 470 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the north side | 630 ft190 m |
| Lowest point Inside the CDP boundary, on the southeast side | 160 ft45 m |
| Town center USGS map point for East Los Angeles | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (LAX) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 13 mi southwest of the CDP boundary | 128 ft39 m |
| Average of all land | 280 ft85 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
3.2 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Unincorporated community (census-designated place) in Los Angeles County, California, United States
- Population
- 118,786 2020 Census
- Land area
- 7.5 sq mi
- Density
- 15,938 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 34.0239° N, 118.1720° W
- Time zone
- Pacific UTC−8 / −7
- Landform region
- Pacific Border
- Drains to
- Pacific Ocean
- Airport
- Los Angeles International (LAX) 128 ft
- ZIP codes 3
- 90022 90023 90063
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monterey Park390 ft
- Los Angeles370 ft
- East Los Angeles230 ft
- Montebello210 ft
- Huntington Park160 ft
- Maywood160 ft
- Vernon150 ft
- Commerce150 ft
- Bell140 ft
- Cudahy130 ft
- Bell Gardens130 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in California1,066th highest of 1,622
- Towns in Los Angeles County87th highest of 142
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Mount Gleason6,530 ft
- San Gabriel Peak6,150 ft
- Monrovia Peak5,390 ft
- Mount Lukens5,076 ft
- San Pedro Hill1,480 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the CDP boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census CDP boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- East Los Angeles is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.