Santa Clarita

Forklift Parts Santa Clarita - The city of Santa Clarita is the fourth largest city within Los Angeles County and the 26th biggest in California, with an estimated population of 180,000. Within the United States, Santa Clarita was just named the the sixth safest place to live. This ranking was given by the FBI for cities more than 100,000 residents. During 2006, Money Magazine ranked Santa Clarita city 18th in the top 100 places to reside. The city was incorporated during 1987 and combined the communities of Newhall, Saugus, Valencia and canyon County. Downtown Los Angeles is about thirty five kms southeast of Santa Clarita. When seen on a map Santa Clarita forms a distinctive triangle shape because of the intersection of the Antelope valley (SR-14) and Golden State (I-5).

Located in the northern and western parts of the city is the Enterprise Zone, which includes the commercial and industrial areas. On the 1st of July, 2007, it was zoned specifically to offer tax incentives to businesses who built there. At present, 97 percent of all business, industrial and commercial zoned land is located in the Enterprise Zone. Numerous big companies have chosen Santa Clarita as their base, such as Salt Creek Grilles, Condomman.com, True Position technologies and Trigg Laboratories.

The financial system in Santa Clarita is mostly based off of the service industry. Practically 41% of all businesses are in the service sector. Retail holds about 21 percent of the economy, and the rest is divided evenly between the insurance, finance, construction and real estate trades.

Santa Clarita is a city which is mostly comprised of smaller companies since only 5% of the companies consist of over fifty workers. Around 59 percent of businesses in the city consist of less then 5 workers. Companies which employ between five and nine employees count for around 19%.

Because of the smaller businesses with smaller rosters of employees, Santa Clarita companies do not occupy a lot of space. About 36 percent of companies in the city take up less then 2,500 square feet whilst 46% of businesses have locations less than 10,000 square feet.