St. Joseph Community Partnership Fund

5 78% 64% 51% 44% 38% 32% 27% 23% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 15% 23% 31% 34% 36% 40% 42% 45% 10% 14% 18% 20% 23% 25% 26% 2% 3% 3% 3% 4% 4% 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 Projected Profile Highlights Orange County leads the nation in demographic change Over 3.1 million residents call Orange County home and about 58 percent of these residents are people of color. Orange County has actually been majority people of color since 2004, 1 foreshadowing the demographic shift now occurring across the nation, which is predicted to become majority people of color by 2044. 2 In reality, people of color have been a part of the fabric of Orange County since before its inception, beginning with the Acjachemen and Tongva people who inhabited the area thousands of years ago and are still a part of the community today. By 1980, 78 percent of the region's population was white but now Orange County is the 18 th most diverse region among the 150 largest regions in the country. Today, just over a third of the population is Latino and nearly one-fifth are Asian American or Pacific Islander (API). Between 2000 and 2016, Orange County's Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) population grew by 55 percent (212,139 residents). Meanwhile the Latino population grew by 22 percent (199,723 residents) and the Black population by 13 percent (6,379 residents). During this time period, immigration spurred the growth of the API population: 55 percent of the growth in the Asian American and Pacific Islander population between 2000 and 2016 was from foreign-born APIs. About 64 percent of the API population are immigrants. In contrast, the growth in the Latino population has been solely due to U.S.-born Latinos. About 39 percent of the Latino population are immigrants. But these broad racial and ethnic categories only tell part of the story of the county's diversity. For example, the Asian population includes residents who are Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Taiwanese, and Cambodian, among others. The Pacific Islander population includes Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Tongans, and other ethnic groups. Source: U.S. Census Bureau; Woods & Poole Economics, Inc. Orange County's demographic change is projected to outpace the nation through 2050 Racial/Ethnic Composition, 1980 to 2050 U.S. % white Mixed/other Native American and Alaska Native Asian or Pacific Islander Latino Black White

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