Moorpark

If you are looking for a small home and yard close to the 5 for your commute to Los Angeles or Hollywood..this is your neighborhood. This middle class neighborhood offers California bungalows and a few other styles including Tudor and Spanish revival. You are close to all types of retail shopping and restaurants including Glendale City Center. Griffith Park borders the neighborhood on the West side of the 5. The commercial area becomes more industrial on the West side of San Fernando Blvd. It would be a great neighborhood if you want to fix up a home, and are an avid roller skater as you have a Home Depot and a great retro roller rink right around the corner.

Not to be confused with the town by the same name to the west of the San Fernando Valley, Moorpark is a tiny swath of middle class residential neighborhood that stretches out to the west of the Glendale Galleria.

Along San Fernando Road there is a Home Depot and some of the other kinds of stores you might expect for those trying to maintain middle class suburban lifestyles. There is also, however, a seedy strip club—The Gentleman’s Club; and just down the street a roller skating joint called the Moonlight Rollerway. Put simply, if you want to feel like you have jumped back to the 1970’s, you can definitely find disco dancing alive and well on this stretch of San Fernando. Of course, these two places don’t draw the same crowd (for the most part).

Mostly however, this is just a nice middle class neighborhood with a nice mix of well-kept homes. You get lots of Mission Style homes here (many of them are set up on the long squat foundations of what look like they used to be ranch homes—a nice effect overall), with a sprinkling of Tudors, older style Ranch homes and the occasional newer (1980s +) apartment buildings. The average rent in the area is $1,100. Racially and economically this is perhaps Glendale’s most well distributed neighborhood with the population dividing fairly evenly into thirds between whites, Hispanics and Asians and incomes (and educational attainment) filling the spectrum.

Overall, it is one of the nicest residential neighborhoods in Glendale south of the Ventura Freeway.