Safest Neighborhoods in Lakewood, CA

Carson Park is the stretch of east Lakewood where the city's early 1950s building boom still sets the look of almost every block. The houses went up nearly all at once, and seventy years of owners have since made each one their own, so the streets feel uniform from a distance and personal up close. ... See Full Page

Lakewood Park carries the name of the 1950 development that made Lakewood famous, when crowds lined up to tour model homes and builders finished thousands of houses in a few short years. The neighborhood sits in the middle of the city, between Lakewood Center and Bellflower Boulevard, and Mayfair Park, the city's original park, is inside its borders. ... See Full Page

Lakewood Estates lines up along the San Gabriel River on Lakewood's east side, and a lot of open space runs through it. A string of parks, a riverside bike path and a working horse stable sit within a few minutes of most homes, with Cerritos just across the border. ... See Full Page

Eastern Lakewood is the part of the city that sits across the San Gabriel River from the rest of it, out past the 605 freeway where Lakewood meets Cerritos and Hawaiian Gardens. Its streets were mostly built a decade after the famous 1950s tracts to the west, and the area is served by ABC Unified School District. ... See Full Page

Lakewood Mutual covers the western side of Lakewood, a pocket of older tract homes between Lakewood Boulevard and the Long Beach line with a public golf course along its southern edge. It predates much of the famous 1950s building boom next door, and a mix of house styles makes that easy to see. ... See Full Page

Mayfair is the oldest neighborhood in Lakewood, older than the city itself, and it still has a slightly different feel from the tracts that came after it. ... See Full Page

Lakewood Country Club Estates takes its name from the 18-hole golf course on Carson Street, and its houses run larger than the typical tract home elsewhere in Lakewood. The neighborhood also reaches toward Lakewood Center and the civic buildings on Clark Avenue, so larger lots and the city's main shopping district end up side by side. ... See Full Page