Orange, California

Orange is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 139,969 people and 28 constituent neighborhoods, Orange is the 41st largest community in California.

Housing costs in Orange are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don’t compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Orange is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Orange is a city of sales and office workers, professionals and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orange who work in office and administrative support (14.83%), sales jobs (11.84%) and management occupations (11.34%).

Also of interest is that Orange has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Another interesting thing about Orange, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

Orange Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Orange is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor’s degree or graduate degree: 32.98% of adults in Orange have a college degree.

The per capita income in Orange in 2010 was $31,535, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $126,140 for a family of four. However, Orange contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Orange is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Orange home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Orange residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Orange also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.38% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Orange include German, Irish, English and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Orange’s cultural character, accounting for 26.03% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Orange is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.

Most Expensive Orange Neighborhoods:

1. E Longridge Dr / E Westridge Dr
2. Orange Park Acres
3. E Chapman Ave / N Equestrian Dr
4. E Santiago Canyon Rd / N Santiago Blvd
5. Cowan Heights
6. E Nohl Ranch Rd / N Santiago Blvd
7. E Grove Ave / Santiago Blvd
8. E La Veta Ave / S Loretta Dr
9. E Chapman Ave / N Tustin St
10. McPherson