Hancock Park is a historic and affluent urban neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. In sharp contrast to most Los Angeles neighborhoods, houses in Hancock Park are set well back from the street, most power and telephone lines are buried, and fences are strongly discouraged. The area also surrounds the Wilshire Country Club in which the Academy Award winning Actress Kathy Bates (Misery, Titanic, About Schmidt) lives along side in her 4.5 million dollar mansion and she's not too far from the Los Angeles Tennis Club. These characteristics, along with the area's abundance of classic Los Angeles architecture, have made it one of the most desirable areas in all of Southern California ever since its development, and the average household income of its residents consistently ranks among the highest in the United States.