Los Angeles city data card: what the official numbers say
Dry from May to October, and August brings no rain at all. This card gathers official figures for Los Angeles: 3.87M people, 49.5M visitors in 2025, plus fares, weather by month, rent and prices, food and culture, and facts most guides miss. Every number shows its source and period.
people live in the City of Los Angeles.
Source: Census Bureau estimate, 1 Jul 2025of residents were born abroad, and 56.4% speak another language at home.
Source: Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024visitors to Los Angeles in 2025, 6.4M of them from abroad.
Source: Discover Los Angeles, 2025Explore Los Angeles, then compare it
Four things about Los Angeles most guides miss
of Angelenos aged 5 and over speak a language other than English at home, and 35.7% were born abroad.
Source: Census Bureau, ACS 2020 to 2024of rain falls in an average August in Downtown LA, and July gets just 0.5 mm. February is the wettest month at 92.5 mm.
Source: NOAA, Downtown LA 1991 to 2020is the most you pay on LA Metro in a day if you tap the same card or phone each time; the 7-day cap is $18.
Source: LA Metro, 2026fewer passengers used LAX in 2025 (73.7M) than in 2024, with international traffic down 1.62% to 23.6M.
Source: Los Angeles World Airports, 2025Compare Los Angeles with another city
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Tourism, transport, airport, visas, weather, health and city data, straight from the official publishers. Links open in a new tab. Every figure on the card lists its own source; the full list is at the bottom of the card.
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