Norwalk highlight
Southeast Los Angeles County suburban center
Incorporated in 1957, Norwalk has grown into a 9.75-square-mile suburban hub seventeen miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Norwalk was incorporated as a city on August 26, 1957, by voters in the unincorporated area who sought to establish local governance and services. The community had existed for decades before that—the settlement took its name in 1874 from a town in Connecticut—but the 1957 incorporation marked the formal establishment of Norwalk as a municipality with its own city council and administration.
Today Norwalk spans 9.75 square miles and sits at a crossroads between downtown Los Angeles to the northwest and the industrial and commercial centers of Long Beach and the port to the south. The city has developed as a mixed-use community with residential neighborhoods, small businesses, retail centers, and municipal services all woven together. City Hall at 12700 Norwalk Boulevard serves as the center of local government, and the Norwalk Arts and Sports Complex, the Cultural Arts Center, and the Aquatic Pavilion provide gathering places for residents of all ages.
As a suburban city serving many households and businesses, Norwalk mirrors the planning challenges that every family in the area faces: protecting a household from the financial consequences if an earner dies, and adjusting that protection as circumstances change. A term life policy sized to your situation—your income, your dependents, your debts—is how most families do that planning.