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Manhattan Beach City Description

The Beach Boys' sang about it in the 60's "Surfin' USA" , UPN and the Fox network choose it to film Veronica Mars and the OC, and celebrities Kevin James, Johnny Depp, Owen Wilson, Tara Reid and Pat Sajak call it home. Located in Southwestern Los Angeles County, Manhattan Beach is an upscale community that is one of the three renowned beach communities, known as Beach Cities, with municipal piers extending into the ocean delighting tourists and fishermen.

The city covers an area of approximately 10.4 square miles, over half of which is water and including 2.1 miles of ocean frontage, 40 acres of recreational beach, 59 acres of parks and a municipal golf course. Residents live in a variety of neighborhoods, including the Sand, Hill, Tree, and Gaslamp Sections, Manhattan Heights, East Manhattan Beach, Liberty Village, and El Porto. Homes in Manhattan Beach are pricey with the median home price in February 2006 at $1.9 million and Money Magazine ranking it as the 4th most expensive town in America in its 2005 Best Places to Live feature. Each district has its distinct identity. Liberty Village in the north-eastern section of town was originally characterized by modest post WWII housing built to accommodate employees of early defense industry contractors Lockheed, Northrop and Hughes. As the popularity of the area has increased, so has the size of these newly remodeled homes, many of them as large as 4,000 square feet, yet still occupying their standard 5,000 square foot lots. Manhattan Heights is located to the east of Pacific Coast Highway. The Sand Section with its high density multifamily properties is adjacent to the beach with its primary street, The Strand, featuring beachfront homes.

The 2000 census lists the City's population at 33,852 residents in 14,474 households. An affluent community, the median income per household was $100,750. The Manhattan Beach Unified School District, which oversees 5 elementary schools, a middle school and high school boasts high academic performance with a district average score of 906 on the 2006 California Academic Performance Index, making it California's 5th best performing school district.

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