The neighborhood was considered 'not especially diverse' ethnically within Los Angeles, with a high percentage of white residents. In 2000 the median age for residents was 42, considered old for city and county neighborhoods the percentages of residents aged 50 and older were among the county's highest. In 2008, the city estimated that the resident population had increased to 44,581. census counted 41,905 residents in the 9.5-square-mile (25Р вЂ™Р’В km 2) Encino neighborhood - 4,411 inhabitants per square mile (1,703/km 2), among the lowest population densities for the city but average for the county. Many ranchos were created after the secularization of the California missions, which began in 1834. Rancho Los Encinos ( Ranch of Holm Oaks) was established in 1845 when a large parcel of former Mission San Fernando land was granted to three Mission Indians by governor Pio Pico. All of Crespi's name was later dropped except 'Encino'.

Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary traveling with the expedition, named the valley 'El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bolonia de Los Encinos' (The Valley of St. In 1769, the Spanish PortolР вЂњР Р‹ expedition, first Europeans to see inland areas of California, traveled north through Sepulveda pass into the San Fernando Valley on August 5 and stayed two nights at a native village near what is now Los Encinos State Historic Park. Rancho Los Encinos is today preserved and open to the public as Los Encinos State Historic Park.

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