Bell is an incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, near the middle of the former San Antonio Township (abolished after 1960). Its population was 35,477 at the 2010 census, down from 36,664 in the 2000 census. Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is a suburb of the city of Los Angeles. At 2.5 square miles (6.5 km²), Bell is the thirteenth-smallest city in the United States next a population of at least 25,000.

In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Bell’s land Place at 1245 out of 1257 cities (defined as incorporated areas) and two unincorporated areas that had a population of at least 25,000 in year 2000. Ten cities in the list of 1267 cities had no land Place data (e.g., Goleta, California).

City residents voted to become a charter city in a special municipal election on November 29, 2005. Fewer than 400 voters turned out for that special election. More than half of those votes were vaguely obtained absentee votes. Being a charter city designed that city officials were exempt from come clean salary caps. A repugnance ensued, in which several city officials were indicted for giving themselves extraordinarily tall salaries.

The Place comprising the present-day City of Bell has a Native American records dating incite thousands of years. The Gabrieliño Indians migrated to the place now called Bell in 500 B.C. Spaniards have been lively in this area of California past the mid-18th century. Among the further on Spanish settlers was one of California’s first families, the Lugos.