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BACKGROUND
Orange County, California is located south of Los Angeles along the Pacific Coast, as shown in
Figure H-1. The county grew from 2.4 million in 1990 to 2.8 million in 2000, an increase of 18 percent
(California State University, Fullerton, Center for Demographic Research). This was 5 percent higher
than the growth rate of the United States (13 percent) during the same time period. Of the 2.8 million
residents in 2000, 8.7 percent were between the ages of 65 and 84 and 1.2 percent were 85 and
older. This means that 9.9 percent of the population was 65 and older. This is slightly lower than both
the state of California (10.4 percent) and the United States as a whole (12.4 percent), as shown in
Table H-1.
Figure H-1. Map of Orange County, California (California State University, Fullerton, Center for
Demographic Research).
Table H-1. Orange County, California population distribution by age.
Age Population
Orange County California United States
Percent
of total
Population
Percent
of total
Population
Percent
of total
Under 18 768,419 27.0 9,249,829 27.3 72,293,812 25.7
18–34 734,505 25.8 8,595,092 25.4 67,035,178 23.8
35–54 838,028 29.4 9,816,976 29.0 82,826,479 29.4
55–64 224,574 7.9 2,614,093 7.7 24,274,684 8.6
65–84 246,669 8.7 3,170,001 9.4 30,752,166 10.9
85 and
older
34,094 1.2 425,657 1.3 4,239,587 1.5
Total 2,846,289 100 33,871,648 100 281,421,906 100
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