Torrance is a very large and diverse city located in the South Bay of Los Angeles County and has about 1.5 miles of attractive beach coastline just south of Redondo Beach, at the base of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and has a very warm Mediterranean climate all year long with sea breezes and low humidity. Because of these factor and the many listed below Torrance homes are always at a premium.
Incorporated in 1921, the city today has a population of 150,000 and has not only survived good times and bad times, but continues to be a booming center for flourishing businesses and industry, with the National Headquarters for Toyota and Honda, Robinson Helicopter, Garrett Aerospace, Panasonic Corporation, famous Kings Hawaiian Bread, and many well known prime manufacturing operations, along with many other small-large corporations employing many thousands of Torrance area residents.
There are many wonderful housing options in Torrance, like beautiful large custom single family homes in wonderful middle class and upper class older and newer neighborhoods located in the city, where there are condo and town home complexes that feature modern desired amenities, all ranging in the middle to upper price ranges.
Torrance is conveniently bordered on the north by the City of Lawndale, to the east by the Harbor Gateway area of Los Angeles, and The City of Gardena, to the south by Lomita and the Palos Verdes Peninsula and to the west by Redondo Beach and the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean, giving the City of Torrance one of the best overall locations of any city in Los Angeles, or in the Southern California area, and has its own airport boasting over 175,000 take offs annually.
Located in an oil-producing area of Southern California, Torrance originally was dotted with thousands of oil wells and oil derricks, but today they are not as common as they were in the early 1900s, however, the ExxonMobil refinery, located at the north end of Torrance, still remains mostly responsible for the majority of Southern California’s current gasoline supply
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