Marina del Rey is a census-designated place upscale seaside community located in an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, California. The population was 8,176 at the 2000 census.Residents of the community enjoy the proximity to downtown Los Angeles. Marina del Rey is only four miles from the Los Angeles International Airport, close enough to provide easy access by car or public transportation, yet far enough away that residents are not disturbed by the noise.
The Fisherman's Village offers a good view of Marina del Rey's dominant feature, the largest man-made small boat harbor in the world with about 7000 pleasure boats and yachts. The marina is surrounded by many high rise luxury Condos, hotels, apartments, shops, and restaurants, as well as the USC Information Sciences Institute and ICANN, currently the closest thing the Internet has to a governing organization. There are also a large number of shopping centers lining the Pacific Coast Highway just to the east.
(California State Route 90) which links Marina del Rey directly to It is served by its own freeway, the three-mile-long Marina FreewayInterstate 405 and nearby Culver City. However, the freeway does not go directly to the marina; it ends at Culver Boulevard and Highway 90 continues west as an at-grade expressway to Lincoln Boulevard (California State Route 1). As a result, the entire area has a reputation for traffic congestion. A Caltrans project to extend the freeway is currently underway.
Marina del Rey lies in area code 310. Its ZIP code is 90292. It is currently the world's largest man-made marina but its title is threatened by the soon to be completed, Dubai Marina in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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