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Welcome to the Bellflower Home page. The Bellflower Home page provides as much information as possible on Bellflower. Knowing Bellflower’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Bellflower’s Home page, you will also find Bellflower’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Bellflower has a population of 76339. 49% of Bellflower’s inhabitants are Male, and 51 are female. 42.1% of Bellflower is married and 38.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $480,960, and the average rent is $1,432. Household median income in Bellflower is $63,848, and the individual median income is $29,443. Bellflower’s Ethnic is the following: Hispanic(56.8%), Other(35.4%), White(31.1%), Black(12.4%), Asian(12.2%), Multiple(7.9%), Pacific(0.7%), Native(0.4%).


The site was formerly rich farmland watered by artesian wells and floodwaters of the now-contained San Gabriel River. In 1906, F.E. Woodruff, a local real estate investor, founded the first municipality on the site, which was named Somerset in 1909 when a post office was established there. However, the proponents of the name 'Bellflower' claimed that the US Post Office Department rejected the name 'Somerset' to prevent confusion with Somerset, Colorado.


The present name is derived from the bellflower apple, which was grown in local orchards during the early 1900s. Originally settled by dairy farmers of Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese descent, Bellflower and neighboring Paramount served first as the apple and later the milk production centers for Southern California, until soaring post-World War II property values forced most of the farmers to move several miles east to the Dairy Valley/Dairyland/Dairy City area (now the cities of Cerritos, La Palma, and Cypress).


These farms were in turn converted into large housing subdivisions for Los Angeles's growing population that worked in the region's skilled industrial and service sectors. As a result, amongst the highly diverse backgrounds in Bellflower, there remains today a notable number of residents of Dutch descent; Bellflower is one of the only cities in the US to boast multiple Dutch grocery stores. After Bellflower was incorporated in 1957, its gradual metamorphosis from agricultural center to residential suburb continued.


From the 1950s through the late 1960s, Bellflower Boulevard, the city's main thoroughfare, was a thriving commercial strip for shopping. Numerous retail and franchise restaurant firms began on this street, which also featured middle- and high-end boutiques, arts and crafts shops, and other small shopkeeps alongside larger department stores and banks.


Today, Bellflower is an urban community within greater Southeast Los Angeles, and ranks amongst the most densely populated cities in the United States. It is a sister city with Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico.


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