Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, and is a component of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. 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 populations greater than 50,000. (and the 8th most densely populated city in California).
Previously, the region was lovely farmland fed by artesian wells and floods from the now-contained San Gabriel River. When a post office was erected on the site in 1906, F.E. Woodruff, a local real estate mogul, founded the first municipality on the site, which was named Somerset.