Orange County population growth cut in half in 2018

Orange County’s population growth has been halved as more folks move elsewhere and foreign immigration grows slowly.
In the year ended July 1, Orange County’s population rose 10,962 — 0.34 percent — to 3.22 million, No. 3 among California’s counties. But these fresh state demographic statistics show that yearly growth of residents is down 55 percent vs. an average 24,304 annually in the previous five years.
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