East Los Angeles (Spanish: Este de Los Ángeles), or East L.A., is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 118,786, a drop of 6.1% from 2010, when it was 126,496. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined East Los Angeles as a census-designated place (CDP).

The area is notable for its high Hispanic proportion, which at more than 95%, is the highest proportion of Hispanic Americans out of any city or Census-designated place in the United States outside of Puerto Rico.

Historically, when it was founded in 1873, the neighborhood northeast of downtown known today as Lincoln Heights was originally named East Los Angeles, but in 1917 residents voted to regulate the reveal to its gift name. Today it is considered share of L.A.’s Eastside, the geographic region east of the Los Angeles River that includes three neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles (Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights) and the unincorporated community in Los Angeles County known today as “East Los Angeles”. Lincoln Heights is 4 miles (6 km) northwest of present-day East Los Angeles. When Lincoln Heights, the first east-side subdivision created in 1873, changed its reveal in 1917, Belvedere (Belvedere Gardens and Belvedere Heights) and surrounding unincorporated county areas were final the moniker of East Los Angeles. By the 1930s, most maps had started to label the Belvedere area as “East Los Angeles”.

The cornerstone of the first building of Occidental College was laid in September 1887 upon Rowan Street. In 1896, the building was destroyed by fire.