STILL GROWING: The population of Orange County...
STILL GROWING: The population of Orange County hit 2.3 million last July, the state reports, continuing--though less dramatically--the rises seen in previous decades (above). . . . Latest estimates put California’s population at 28.6 million and the total U.S. population at 250 million. Which means that close to one in 12 Californians and just fewer than one in 100 Americans now live in Orange County.
1950: 216,224 1960: 703,925 1970: 1,420,386 1980: 1,932,709 1989: 2.3 million estimated as of July 1, 1989 SOURCE: Population Research Unit, California Dept. of Finance.
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