Silver Lake is a district east of Hollywood. Silver Lake is inhabited by a wide variety of ethnicities and socioeconomic groups, but it is best known as an eclectic gathering of the creative community. Since the 1990s it has become the center of the alternative rock scene in Los Angeles. The Sunset Junction Street Fair  a major event in August, is held there

Silver Lake is quite large, and has a fair share of businesses but is better known for its peaceful residential areas. It has a wide variation in ethnicities and subcultures.

Silver Lake is bordered by Echo Park to the east and southeast, Atwater Village to the north, Historic Filipinotown to the south, Virgil Village to the south-west,East Hollywood to the west and Los Feliz to the northwest.