Dear Alhambra

District 1 › Area B

BNorth of Alhambra Rd

Bean Tract

Alhambra Rd up to the San Marino line: the north ends of N. Stoneman, Almansor, and Granada, and Huntington Dr. The largest area by land and the one with the most houses: more than half of the homes here are single-family, and a third were built before 1950. Owners and renters split almost evenly. It is also the one part of the district where English is the largest language spoken at home.

Map of District 1 with Area B highlighted Atlantic Blvd Garfield Ave N Stoneman Ave Granada Ave Main St Grand Ave Alhambra Rd A B C D
Area B within District 1. Full map.
5,698*people (2020 Census)
2,430*homes (2020 Census)
~11,500people per square mile, on 0.50 sq mi
0letters so far from this area

*This Census tract runs past the district line west of Atlantic Boulevard. Of its 5,698 people and 2,430 homes, about 3,719 people and 1,700 homes are inside District 1, counted by Census block. Every percentage below is for the whole tract. Registered voters and ballots, further down, count only the blocks inside the district.

A short history

Drawn from two City of Alhambra documents prepared by Historic Resources Group: the Historic Context Statement (April 2022) and the Citywide Historic Resources Survey Report (November 2023). Bracketed page numbers are PDF pages. More on these sources.

Alhambra Road was the northern edge of both of Wilson and Shorb's 1870s tracts. [Context p.63] [Context p.64] Jackson A. Graves, one of the leaders of the Alhambra Orange Growers Association when it formed in 1896, built a residence on East Huntington Drive in 1888. The house is gone, but its original perimeter fence along Huntington Drive still stands. [Context p.67] [Context p.81] The City's survey records houses from 1900 on the 800 block of North Stoneman Avenue and from 1909 on the 900 block. [Context p.80] [Survey p.59]

The Carmel of St. Teresa, a Carmelite convent established in Alhambra in 1913, bought about three acres at 215 East Alhambra Road in 1922 from Joseph Jordan, a pioneer resident who had built and run the Alhambra Bakery and the Alhambra Hotel. The sisters' Renaissance Revival monastery went up there in 1923 to designs by John C. Austin, and the survey found it eligible for the National Register. [Survey p.47] [Survey p.193] When the City surveyed its older neighborhoods in 1984 and 1985, one of the two areas it chose for a house-by-house look was bounded by Bushnell Avenue, Pine Street and Huntington Drive, Atlantic Boulevard, and Alhambra Road, because of how many of its houses were built before 1920. [Survey p.5] Today more than half the homes here are single-family, and a third were built before 1950.

Who lives here53% rent · 35% born outside the U.S. · median age 39 · 24% limited English

Each row compares this area with all of District 1 and with the whole city. Source and margins of error.

Rent their home
This area
53%
District 1
63%
Alhambra
59%
Born outside the U.S.
This area
35%
District 1
42%
Alhambra
45%
Moved in since 2020
This area
35%
District 1
29%
Alhambra
22%
In the same home since before 2000
This area
17%
District 1
14%
Alhambra
20%
Under 18
This area
18%
District 1
17%
Alhambra
17%
65 and over
This area
15%
District 1
18%
Alhambra
19%
Bachelor's degree or higher
adults 25 and over
This area
58%
District 1
47%
Alhambra
41%
39median age
2.4people per household
2,425households
$93,000median household income, ±$12,000

Languages at home

English only
This area
45%
District 1
35%
Alhambra
33%
Chinese
Mandarin, Cantonese, and other Chinese
This area
25%
District 1
30%
Alhambra
33%
Spanish
This area
20%
District 1
25%
Alhambra
23%
Speak English less than "very well"
any language, age 5 and over
This area
24%
District 1
28%
Alhambra
33%
The homes56% single-family · 33% built before 1950 · median rent $2,250 · median value $938,000
Built before 1950
This area
33%
District 1
26%
Alhambra
34%
Built 1950 to 1979
This area
46%
District 1
36%
Alhambra
38%
Built 1980 to 1999
This area
14%
District 1
26%
Alhambra
20%
Built 2000 or later
This area
7%
District 1
12%
Alhambra
7%
Single-family houses
This area
56%
District 1
39%
Alhambra
53%
Buildings of 2 to 9 units
This area
22%
District 1
29%
Alhambra
27%
Buildings of 10 or more units
This area
21%
District 1
31%
Alhambra
19%
Homes sitting vacant
This area
5%
District 1
9%
Alhambra
7%
$2,250median monthly rent, ±$160
$938,000median value, owner-occupied homes, ±$70,000
$1,940citywide median rent
$858,000citywide median home value
Getting to work66% drive alone · 0% bus or train · 18% work from home · 3% of households have no car
Drive alone
workers 16 and over
This area
66%
District 1
66%
Alhambra
69%
Carpool
This area
13%
District 1
9%
Alhambra
10%
Bus or train
This area
0%
District 1
2%
Alhambra
2%
Walk or bike
This area
2%
District 1
2%
Alhambra
3%
Work from home
This area
18%
District 1
18%
Alhambra
14%
Households with no car
This area
3%
District 1
8%
Alhambra
7%

On the City's docket

Copied from the City of Alhambra's Development Projects pages, which sort projects as Proposed, Under Appeal, Approved, Under Construction, and Completed. Only projects inside this area are shown, in the City's own terms, with no commentary. Checked September 23, 2026. If the City's page has changed since, the City's page wins.

Nothing inside this area is listed on the City's development pages as of September 23, 2026.

The last time this seat was on the ballot

2,367registered voters here, November 2022
1,149ballots cast from this area
49%turnout here. District 1: 44%
28%of the district's ballots came from here

Registered voters and ballots cast are counted from the voter file, by Census block, for the blocks inside District 1. Ballots include every voter who returned one, whether or not they marked the council race, which is why the four areas together add up to more than the 3,636 council votes.

The County ran District 1 on three precincts in 2022, and none of them lines up with these four areas, so the candidate results are shown by precinct, exactly as certified, with an estimate of how much of each precinct falls in each area.

PrecinctWhere its voters liveCouncil votes, as certifiedTotal
0150004AArea B 85%, Area C 9%, Area A 6%Katherine Lee 602 · Ari Gutiérrez Arámbula 310 · Stephen Sham 2941,206

Precinct shares are by ballots cast per block. Method and source.

Places

Nothing verified for this area yet. If a park, a school, a corner, or a storefront is what anchors your part of the district, tell me and I will add it, with its address checked.

Where the numbers come from

People, homes, and density are 2020 Census counts for tract 4804. Every percentage and median is from the ACS 2024 five-year estimates (2020 to 2024), pulled September 23, 2026. Tract-level estimates carry real margins of error, so read a few points of difference as "about the same." The full list of sources, with table numbers.

The four areas

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