FIND YOUR SOUTH PASADENA HOME

South Pasadena, CA is town of roughly 26,000 residents and is the is the 271st largest community in California. The home prices in South Pasadena are consistently among the most expensive in California and in the United States. Over 92% of of residents of South Pasadena are white-collar professionals with careers in management occupations (14.29%), education (11.57%), healthcare (10.23%), salespeople, office workers, and boasts more professionals in the creative arts and design working in media than 90% of the towns & cities in America. The vast majority of the residents in South Pasadena have secondary and post secondary educations. 60.39% of the adults have a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, and even PhD compared the national average of 21.84%. Thats a 3 to 1 ratio.

South Pasadena is located in the westernmost part of the San Gabriel Valley bordering Pasadena to the north, San Marino to the East, and the Northeast Los Angeles Communities of Highland Park, Eagle Rock, & El Sereno to west. Within the city are the smaller neighborhoods known as Bean Tract, Olga, Downtown, Mission Street-East, Mission Street-West, Ostrich Farm and Raymond Hill.

South Pasadena is revered for its architecture which include the likes of Greene & Greene, Marshall & Russel, and Smith & Williams. The city is filled character homes – Victorian and American Gothic, Craftsman, Bungalow, Spanish, English Tudor.

South Pasadena was once occupied by the Hahamog’na Tribe of Native Americans. They lived in villages scattered along the Arroyo Seco and the canyons from the mountains down to South Pasadena. Most were converted to Christianity by the arrival of the Spaniards and provided labor for the establishment of the San Gabriel Mission in September of 1771.

The original settlers of modern-day South Pasadena were Native Americans and members of the Hahamog’na tribe of Tongva. It is believed that there were at least two Hahamog’na settlements in the area. The leader of the tribe, coincidentally named Hahamog’na, met Gaspar de Portolà during the Mexican Expedition of 1770. Hahamog’na converted to Christianity and took upon himself the name “Pascual.”  This resulted in the Hahamongna tribe being called the Pascual Indians and the Pascualites. After Mexico surrendered the land to the US in 1848, the Manuel Garfias Adobe was erected on Arroyo Drive in 1853. The adobe was the setting of the first non-aboriginal birth in what’s now South Pasadena. In 1875, landowners in San Pascual voted to rename their association “Pasadena.” On March 2nd, 1888, the City of South Pasadena was incorporated, in part to resist their absorption into insatiable Pasadena. The population at the time was around 500.

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