Lawndale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 32,769 at the 2010 census, up from 31,712 according to the 2000 census. The city is in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles Area.

From the 1780s onward, the area that is now Lawndale was allowance of the Rancho Sausal Redondo, a home grant solution by the Spanish colonial management that includes much of what is now the South Bayshore region. In 1905, Charles B. Hopper first subdivided the area and named it after the Chicago neighborhood of the similar name. Lots sold slowly and alternating promotions were tried, such as promoting Lawndale as a chicken raising area. The first railway to manage through Lawndale was the Inglewood Division of the Redondo Railway which would forward-thinking become allowance of the Pacific Electric “Red Car” system. It ran all along the middle of Railway Avenue (now Hawthorne Boulevard) until 1933. In 1927, the Santa Fe railroad arrived. After World War II, the immense demand for housing from returning veterans and California newcomers resulted in Lawndale’s formation as a bedroom community. On December 28, 1959, it was incorporated as a city.

Starting in the 1970s, Lawndale’s relatively low housing prices but more desirable location relative to its against cities attracted absentee landlords and a substantial portion of its residents increasingly became renters.

For a time in the 1980s, with extra cycle of expand of defense industry nearby, many minor people who wished to stir in the Beach Cities found that they conveniently could not afford to reach so, and contracted in less tempting inland cities such as Lawndale. But taking into consideration the contraction of this industry after the cold war, Lawndale reverted to its previous pattern. Lawndale has attempted to attract more owner–residents, as capably as tourists, with the 2003 exploit of the “Beautify Lawndale” urban renewal project along the city’s stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard (State Route 107), a major South Bay thoroughfare.