A THIN BLACK LINE

Orange County’s black population, just an estimated 1% of all residents, varies little from community to community, with the exception of the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro (El Toro Station), where 15% of the residents are black. At the other extreme, there are today 14 communities/cities where less than 1% of the residents are black. Here’s how the county’s black population was distributed in 1980, what it looks like today, and what projections show will be the case five years from now:

1980 CENSUS

City/area % Blacks El Toro Station 15 Santa Ana 4 Sunset Beach 3 Tustin 3 La Palma 2 Anaheim 1 Buena Park 1 Costa Mesa 1 COUNTYWIDE 1 Cypress 1 El Toro 1 Fountain Valley 1 Fullerton 1 Garden Grove 1 Huntington Beach 1 Irvine 1 Los Alamitos 1 Midway City 1 Orange 1 Placentia 1 San Clemente 1 Seal Beach 1 Stanton 1 Westminster 1 Brea * Capistrano Beach * Dana Point * Laguna Beach * Laguna Hills * Laguna Niguel * La Habra * Mission Viejo * Newport Beach * Rossmoor * San Juan Capistrano * Silverado * Trabuco Canyon * Tustin Foothills * Villa Park * Yorba Linda *

* Less than 1%

1988 ESTIMATES

City/area % Blacks El Toro Station 15 Tustin 5 Santa Ana 3 La Palma 2 Sunset Beach 2 Anaheim 1 Brea 1 Buena Park 1 Costa Mesa 1 COUNTYWIDE 1 Cypress 1 El Toro 1 Fountain Valley 1 Fullerton 1 Garden Grove 1 Huntington Beach 1 Irvine 1 Laguna Beach 1 Los Alamitos 1 Midway City 1 Mission Viejo 1 Orange 1 Placentia 1 San Clemente 1 Seal Beach 1 Stanton 1 Capistrano Beach * Dana Point * Laguna Hills * Laguna Niguel * La Habra * Newport Beach * Rossmoor * San Juan Capistrano * Silverado * Trabuco Canyon * Tustin Foothills * Villa Park * Westminster * Yorba Linda *

* Less than 1%

1993 PROJECTIONS

City/area % Blacks El Toro Station 15 Tustin 5 Santa Ana 3 Irvine 2 La Palma 2 Los Alamitos 2 Sunset Beach 2 Anaheim 1 Brea 1 Buena Park 1 Costa Mesa 1 COUNTYWIDE 1 Cypress 1 El Toro 1 Fountain Valley 1 Fullerton 1 Garden Grove 1 Huntington Beach 1 Laguna Beach 1 Midway City 1 Mission Viejo 1 Orange 1 Placentia 1 San Clemente 1 Seal Beach 1 Stanton 1 Westminster 1 Capistrano Beach * Dana Point * Laguna Hills * Laguna Niguel * La Habra * Newport Beach * Rossmoor * San Juan Capistrano * Silverado * Trabuco Canyon * Tustin Foothills * Villa Park * Yorba Linda *

Source: National Planning Data Corp.