Monterey Park is a city in
Los Angeles County,
California,
United States, east of
Downtown Los Angeles. The city's motto is "Pride in the past, Faith in the future". Monterey Park is part of
a cluster of cities (
Alhambra,
Arcadia,
Temple City,
Rosemead,
San Marino, and
San Gabriel in the west
San Gabriel Valley) with a growing
Asian American population, making up 66.9% of its resident population at 2010; 47.7% of its residents are of
Chinese descent, the largest concentration of
Chinese Americans of any
municipality in the United States. According to the
2010 Census, the city had a total population of 60,269.