Living + Working in El Segundo
El Segundo is one of the oldest cities in the Los Angeles area. Conveniently located in Santa Monica Bay, the original settlers of El Segundo were the Tongva and Chumash Native American tribes. Today, El Segundo’s coastal location has made it the ideal home of 16,000 people and several Fortune 500 corporate companies. Its population statistics reveal that El Segundo residents are 66% Caucasian but there’s also quite a number of Hispanics (18%), Asians (7%), and mixed races (5%). Through the years, El Segundo has become a popular business, residential, and tourist destination.
Officially incorporated in 1917, El Segundo is also home to many industrial facilities. The name El Segundo is actually Spanish and translates to “The Second” in English, and the city got this name in 1911 because it is the site of the second oil refinery of Standard Oil in the entire West Coast. Even with its beginnings in oil refinery, the post-war boom in 1956 brought many other industries to El Segundo, from aerospace and aviation to manufacturing and creative media. It is also widely known as the “Aerospace Capital of the World.”