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FY 2025-2026 KEY DEMOGRAPHIC INDICATORS
City of Glendale’s population as of July 1, 2023, is 187,050 where July 1, 2022, estimates were 189,221. Population decreased by 2,171.
The estimated median household income in Glendale was $81,219 compared with the LA County Median household income of $83,411. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates) 13.4% of all Glendale families were below the poverty line in Glendale in 2023, while
13.9% of LA County is listed as below the poverty line. 18% of Glendale’s population are children under the age of 18, a lower percent than the Los Angeles County average of 20.2%. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates) Persons 65 years and older make up 18.4% of those living in Glendale compared to
15.7% in Los Angeles County who are 65 years of age or older. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates)
Median Rent in Glendale is $2,002 compared to $1,805 of Los Angeles County renters.
Renters in Glendale make up 65.8% of the population. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates) The average rent for an 853 sq.ft. apartment in Glendale as of July 2024 was $2,921, which is stagnant from last year. (rentcafe.com)
There are 43 licensed childcare facilities in Glendale for preschool ages 0-4 years available and 120 licensed home-based childcares. (State of California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division)
On any given night in Glendale there are 179 homeless persons, compared to 195 persons in 2023 which is an 8% decrease (City of Glendale 2024 Point-In-Time Homeless Count).
54 out of 179 homeless adults are chronically homeless (includes sheltered and unsheltered. (City of Glendale 2024 Point-In-Time Homeless Count) 62 persons out of 179 (35%) identified as being homeless due to domestic violence, (City of Glendale 2024 Point-In-Time Homeless Count)
21% of unsheltered persons were age 55+ or older compared to 2023 which was 23%. (City of Glendale 2024 Point-In-Time Homeless Count)
2 The YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena receives over 1,500 calls a year, 90% of which are domestic violence survivors fleeing alone, or most often with their children, from abusive situations and fearing for their lives.
Glendale Police Department year-to-date domestic violence calls is 194. In 2021 the Glendale Police Department logged 333 calls for assistance related to domestic violence and 323 in in 2020. (Report on the status of women and girls from Commission on the Status of Women 2023)
95,582 Glendale residents are foreign born, representing 51.1% of the total population (the majority are from Armenia, Iran, Lebanon, Philippines, and Mexico). This compares to 46.2% in the County of Los Angeles. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates) 92.7% of Glendale Households own a computer, while 88.8% of Glendale Households have broadband Internet subscriptions, compared to 95.4% of LA County households who own a computer and 90.2% have broadband Internet subscriptions. (2023 ACS 1- year estimates)
66.7% of Glendale's population age 5 years and over speak a language other than English at home, compared to 55.5% of Los Angeles County population 5 years and over. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates)
88.8% of Glendale residents hold a high school diploma (HSD) or a HSD equivalent, while 80.3% of Los Angeles County residents hold a high school diploma or HSD equivalent. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates)
In Glendale, there are 47 public parks and park facilities, totaling approximately 286 acres. This represents 4,026 Glendale residents per park/park facility compared to 2,287 residents per park/park facility as the national average. This also represents 1.5 acres per 1,000 people, compared to 10.8 acres per 1,000 people as the national average. 34.2% of housing dwellings in Glendale are owner occupied, while 46.2% of dwellings in Los Angeles County are owner-occupied. (2023 ACS 1-year estimates) 61,971 meals were served to seniors 60 years and older in the congregate and home delivered meal programs by the City's Senior Services Unit in FY 2023-2024 compared to 81,947 in FY 2022-2023, which is a 24% decrease. 95% of the clients served were low income. (City of Glendale, Community Services & Parks) In 2024, Glendale ranked 79.83 on the safety index compared to 80.03 in 2023, and
81.43 in 2022 according to numbeo.com.
3 2025-2030 Consolidated Plan Public Meeting Comments
2025-2023 Consolidated Plan
FY 2024-25 Annual Action Plan Public Hearing Comments
October 2, 2024
In-Person Community Meeting (120 attendees)
21 Residents Participated
Public Meeting Comments: English, Armenian, Spanish Comments Combined I. Citizenship Participation
Share information with citizens through email, Facebook, GWP Bill, advertising plans and meetings via Glendale Unified School District (GUSD).
Give us a texting option so we can remember to attend meetings.
Add flyers to weekly newsletters sent to parents and participants in organizations. Examples include GUSD and GWP Bill
Continue to do dinners and raffles so people to be willing to attend meetings.
In-person meetings are preferred because they are more interactive with the public.
II. Housing
Offer a discount to young adults to be able to afford their own homes in Glendale. Very difficult with the pricing.
What limit services to only developmentally disabled can include mentally disabled. I have a stable medically complaint bipolar daughter in her 30’s.
Rents are too high and we have only been here a few years and our salaries are not enough to pay rent and have a better life to help ourselves. We are learning English and what we get in salaries are not sufficient to be able to live comfortably.
Need Rent Control
Salaries are not going up with rent increases, utilities and food increases. We cant live and feel we are being pushed out.
Rents are too high and it is difficult to afford because it does not keep with fixed rates.
The City provides a lotto for housing but some seniors keep applying but end up not wining the lottery.
Seems unfair.
Apartment owners are increasing rent by 9% every year for the past 2 years. Its relentless to keep up.
Rent prices are too high and not affordable.
Rent is too expensive; immigrants cannot afford to live in the city in a a studio even. $1,600 for a studio and we still cannot afford to live.
Need Rent Control
Rent is increasing every year and seniors are being priced out of Glendale.
Need more affordable housing
The City should spent money on senior renters to help their living situations since many of them are afraid of losing their homes.
III Public Social Services
All your projects are great for all the mentioned groups. We would also like to see as where “neurodivergent” adults would fall under or in fact they don’t fall under any of the mentioned group.
Therefore, is the City of Glendale going to start a group category for these residents who have “behavioral health issues’ but the also need to be able to live an independent life.
As the caregiver of an adult that is neurodivergent and on the autism spectrum safety is a concern.
Representing a nonprofit 2BHappy our concern is about having one or more of our parks being developed 4 to accommodate the individual within the Autism spectrum, especially that parks have fence around so parents will not be worried for child’s elopement. (running off without realizing safety of self) As a board member of 2BHappy nonprofit organization, Behavioral Analysist we suggest that the City of Glendale separate behavioral health from mental health and provides free behavioral health consultations to all needs. Additionally, all public places and all events must be environmentally modified for those with behavioral dx.
Beeline is overcrowded in the morning by Hoover High School 7:44am to 8:05am.
Women’s Self Defense classes are important and provided by the City is in dire need.
In all neighborhoods, park improvements such as public safety cameras are needed. This could increase the safety of being in walkable areas, making people feel more comfortable.
Youth/Childcare Centers and South Glendale Parks can be higher on the priority list for community facility improvements. Everyone wants a place to go and feel safe at.
IV. Community Development/ Economic Development
Infrastructure development sidewalk improvement and bus shelters.
Aging population and sight and hearing disabilities crosswalk buttons that talk, rigid grids on sidewalks like the sidewalks in Japan.
Bus Shelters not just for Metro but for Beeline too.
Personally witnessed young man using a white cane fall into a open tree box, ran into outside patio dining on sidewalk.
Need better paying jobs so we can afford rent. The American Dream is not available to us in Glendale.
Brand Blvd Project; Fremont Park are not finished; Brand project took away lanes; it has created more traffic congestion. Took away parking;
Parking throughout the City is limited.
Excessive Speeding and Safety is a major concern for us.
Gas and GWP bills are higher than ever. When will this stop? Residents cant continue to pay pay pay.
Need more police presence. Crime Prevention is important these days; need surveillance and more cops.
Hard to find jobs to provide for our families. Good paying jobs are non-existent.
Need more bus stations
Better sidewalks, benches and walking paths are needed.
V. Hom elessness
It seems that we are getting an influx of homeless individuals Sidewalks are inaccessible because homeless have their belongings there.
There are piles of trash in alleyways.
We pay through the nose for rent however we have to share the space with homeless in downtown Glendale who trash the area with their debris and carts. City needs to put a stop to this.
What is the Library doing about or should be concerned about the number of homeless individuals in the libraries and around the area. This creates many issues such as bedbugs, mental health challenges, and aggressive behavior. Needs to have limits to this problem which is affecting the rest of the Glendale residents.
Email Comments
Other way to REALLY IMPROVE Glendale way of life and FOR BUSINESSES is to KEEP minimum 2 lanes EACH DIRECTION and REMOVE BICYCLE LANES in main streets.
Among others, Brand Blvd between (Glenoaks and Mountain) is an accident waiting to happen, if not yet seeing evidence of this.
5 Seems that the simplest way to improve low/moderate income residents of Glendale is to help them find good-paying jobs.
Why not make Glendale attractive for Businesses who can then generate/offer jobs to those who wish to work.
One way to do this is to offer some sort of income supplement to WORKING PEOPLE.
When I moved to Glendale in the 70’s, people chose Glendale before Burbank/Pasadena.
Today, Burbank/Pasadena has more Businesses with good-paying jobs and property values (hence property taxes) are higher than Glendale properties (which of course are not cheap by any measure).
However, it seems that Glendale is the first choice for those who want social services – which is fine if we choose to be ‘the go-to place for this.
Glendale would be entirely different city if/when we CHOOSE/DECIDE to promote Businesses instead of Social Services.
Telephone Comments
Need to help seniors who are experiencing homelessness
Beeline needs to be more accessible with routes
Preference to do virtual meetings
Need affordable ADA units and accessible bathrooms in Glendale apartment units.
Verdugo Park public restrooms are filthy and need to upkeep. Restrooms are in horrible condition and dust and cobwebs are present. Need more service of this area. *Comments are written as presented verbally, as part of a comment card, or email by residents and may contain grammatical errors.