Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, and is part of the Los Angeles metropolitan region. It was formed on September 3, 1957, after being created in 1906. The city had a total population of 79,190 as of the 2020 census, up from 76,616 in 2010. This ranked it as the 65th most densely populated city in the United States among cities with more than 50,000 residents (and the 8th most densely populated city in California).
Previously, the region was lush farmland fed by artesian wells and flooding from the now-contained San Gabriel River. In 1906, F.E. Woodruff, a local real estate investor,[6] founded the first municipality on the site, which was named Somerset in 1909 when a post office was established there.