About Whittier, California

Whittier is a city with 85,331 residents as of the 2010 U.S. Census and is a part of the Gateway Cities in California. The city is named for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

Whittier’s strong sense of history and vision for the future has made it an upscale and dynamic residential community. There are several neighborhoods in Whittier. The area centered around Philadelphia Street and Greenleaf Avenue is known as Uptown Whittier and contains the traditional central business core. Just north of Uptown Whittier are the neighborhoods known as Central Park and Hadley-Greenleaf. These districts contain many Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival homes. The area surrounding Whittier College is known as College Hills and was also recently designated a historic district, as has a small cluster of homes along Earlham Drive. The area east of College Avenue is referred to as East Whittier.