EconomyThe median income for a household in the city was $56,100, and the median income for afamily was $66,657. Males had a median income of $50,594 versus $36,138 for females.The per capita income for the city was $28,400. About 6.7% of families and 7.9% of thepopulation were below the poverty line, including 7.8% of those under age 18 and 6.1%of those age 65 or over.The Arcadia's economy is driven by wholesale trade, retail trade, manufacturing, healthcare and social assistance, arts, entertainment, and recreation. Revenue from the SantaAnita Racetrack supports Arcadia's independent library, school system and police force.The racetrack is also a major source of tax revenue for <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> County.As of 2004, the City of Arcadia has an unemployment rate of 3.0%.The Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita (formerly the Santa Anita Fashion Park) is amajor shopping center in the city.GovernmentThe city has a council-manager government with a five member city council (GaryKovacic, John Wuo, Roger Chandler, Gail Marshall, and Mickey Segal), including themayor (John Wuo).Public educationThe city operates its own school district, Arcadia Unified School District, outside of theLAUSD.The city has one major and prestigious high school Arcadia High School, three middleschools (First Avenue Middle, Richard Henry Dana Middle, and Foothills Middle), andsix elementary schools (Baldwin Stocker, Camino Grove, Highland Oaks, Holly Avenue,Hugo Reid and Longley Way). Arcadia's history of racial discrimination is not includedin the official curriculum of the Arcadia Unified School District.The city also operates its own Public Library separate from the County of <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>Public Library system.HospitalIn the Arcadia Civic Center, Methodist Hospital, previously "Methodist Hospital ofSouthern California", sits on 22 acres of land. It has 284 beds in the facility. Methodistwas the state's first community hospital to have a psychiatric unit. Plus, its nursery schoolwas one of the first corporate daycares in the U.S. Several upgrades have been made to
the original facility. For instance, in 1998, the Berger Tower was completed and it holds169 additional beds. The hospital opened as Arcadia Methodist Hospital on May 27,1957, having moved from downtown <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>.It was an Official Hospital of the 1984 Olympic Games.GeographyArcadia is located at 34°7′58″N, 118°2′11″W (34.132688, -118.036491) GR1 .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.8 km² (11.1mi²). 28.4 km² (11.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.3 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (1.08%) is water.External linksArcadia official websiteOfficial site of the arboretumPage about movies and television shows filmed at the <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> State and CountyArboretumWestfield Santa AnitaMaps and aerial photos · Coordinates: 34.132688° -118.036491°Street map from Google Maps or Yahoo! MapsTopographic map from TopoZoneAerial image or topographic map from TerraServer-USASatellite image from Google Maps or Windows Live LocalBurbank, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong> County, CaliforniaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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