Since taking office in 2022, Council District 10 has permitted a net 6,558 new homes, about 1,670 a year, more than any sitting member's district. Fewer than 8 percent have been finished. In Monica Ro...

An LAFD battalion chief was paid $948,271 in 2025, and $653,485 of it was overtime. At the rate his contract pays for extra hours, that's about 4,500 hours on top of a 2,912-hour schedule, or 85 perce...

The city’s first street tree inventory since 1996 counts every palm along its streets. One in four of the planting sites it surveyed has no tree in it.

Los Angeles doesn't publish complete attendance records. This is derived and built from the roll calls themselves during the full council meetings, committee meetings, the Metro board, the Mayor's sea...

Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos have raised $909,553 from named donors so far, and we estimate about $36,000 of it came from people who live in Council District 9. Once the city's matching funds a...

Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.

Recreation and Parks counts 14 off-leash dog parks and recommends 85 by 2050. Its most recent one opened in South LA in November 2022, and the next isn't due until 2027.

LA Metro’s escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.

The seven biggest lobbying clients in Los Angeles since 2005, the firms they paid $69.1 million, and the parts of city government those firms named as lobbied.

Six of LA's ten highest-collision intersections are in the San Fernando Valley. Five of those six have no approved speed camera site within 400 meters.

Domestic flights account for most of LAX's passenger shortfall since 2019. China routes account for four-fifths of the remaining international gap.

Los Angeles police recorded 534,202 collisions at named intersections between 2010 and 2020. This is where they landed, one circle per corner, scaled by how many. The city has also adopted its first 1...

Census employment estimates put Downtown far ahead of every other LA neighborhood.

Los Angeles doesn't publish complete attendance records. This is derived and built from the roll calls themselves during the full council meetings, committee meetings, and the Metro board for all fift...

Seven elections, 2020 through 2026. Ninety-seven contests, shaded by winner, margin or turnout, at precinct, neighborhood and council-district scale. Hover for detail and search any contest.

A year of parking fines issued equals 0.426 percent of household income in the city's poorest tracts and 0.043 percent in its richest. The data covers where City of Los Angeles citations were written,...