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It is disappointing to see that the quality of this article is only a C. I am planning revisions and looking Robeson_County,_North_Carolina as an example of a GA quality county article. I want to start with the demographics section, but as that is completed, I would work on the history (adding a brief section about the county bankruptcy --something that made global news) and then try to tackle the Arts and Culture. The laundry list of religious institutions makes it seem like this is the only thing happening here. Please add comments below if there are parts you want to help with or focus areas. chrispounds (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 19:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I did a review of the major counties Los Angeles County, California, Cook County, Illinois, Harris County, Texas, Maricopa County, Arizona, San Diego County, California, and Miami-Dade County, Florida and compared this with the structure from the Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties. Here is the outline where you'll see I am adding a few things (Transportation & Healthcare) because this is a county on the scale of a state.

History; Geography with sub Climate; Demographics with subs Housing & Religion; Government, Law, and Politics; Economy with subs Industries, Employers, Tourism, and Agriculture; Education;

Transportation (because we love our highways); Healthcare; Communities; Recreation (parks and sports) and then the usual See Also, Notes, Reference, Further reading. Welcome input here. Chrispounds (talk) 15:55, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The History of Orange County in the current draft is too long and should be a separate article. Chrispounds (talk) 16:02, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History of Orange County, California is done. Could use more references. Also the history section on this page was re-written. Do we need more in-line references? Chrispounds (talk) 22:40, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrote Government to be briefer and removed the edge city content that was a circular reference. As of now the article is over 7000 words vs. Los Angeles County, California which is 2900 words. A lot could be trimmed, especially if it is poorly sourced. Chrispounds (talk) 14:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Only small reference to default of GO bonds in 1994 due to bad interest rate swaps, which is perhaps the OC's most enduring historical legacy. At the time the default was the largest in US history ($110B).

added a sentence in the history section, but more could go in History of Orange County, California Chrispounds (talk) 14:57, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added a tallest buildings in Orange County section, I am not sure why it was deleted...but I re-added it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.244.3.9 (talk) 09:00, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Changing demographics is not the only factor. Another explanation is the Republican Party moved away from local voters. I hosted the local polling place in south Orange County from 1998 to 2008. The elections in 2008 were different. Voters at my polling place were very upset with the Republican Party. Had folk asking if they could vote other than Republican, as they never had before. Folk outside the polling place in animated conversation, as they were upset with the elected Republicans.

What I wrote at the time: https://bannister.us/weblog/2008/the-republicans-are-in-deep-trouble

I think you could argue the Republican Party moved away from local voters. pbannister (talk) 16:38, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is it perhaps time to retire this phrase from the lead, given the latest midterm results? Or at least rephrase it? ^[1][2][3][4] Knyzna1 (talk) 07:38, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, certainly a part of the history but the contemporary situation has changed.Fettlemap (talk) 21:32, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I find the existing section somewhat inaccurate. The primary factor you want to map is the age of development. Most everything else is secondary. Keep in mind that much of present Orange County simply did not exist, not so long ago.

I also find this section inaccurate. North Orange County usually refers to Brea-Placentia-Yorba Linda. I don't think anyone who lives in O.C. would consider Santa Ana part of North Orange County. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TailHook (talk • contribs) 18:40, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Orange County was defined by waves of development, as agricultural land was transformed into bedroom communities. Newly developed areas tended to be younger and more affluent. If you had money you preferred the newer, nicer areas. Waves of development defined economic and demographic maps.

Early waves of folk moving into the county came from everywhere else in the country (40-70s roughly). Mostly white as the country was then mostly white. More so the economically mobile.

The Orange County of the 1960s and 70s was defined by large Cold War era aerospace plants. Employment at the plants sparked a wave to development of bedroom communities, mostly in north Orange County.

Older communities had and have a larger Hispanic portion with older Santa Ana as largest but not only example.

Neighborhoods developed later (70s-present) got waves of folk from everywhere in the world. As the newly developed areas in south county were developed, the folk moving in were more culturally (if not economically) diverse.

In the 1970s the area around Westminister received a large group of refugees from Vietnam. Ever since, that general central/east area of the county as tended to be more Asian.

Irvine (in south county) was and is a center of development (roughly 80s-present). Employment offered in the large "Irvine Industrial" areas drove development of bedroom commuities in south county.

There are more recent secondary waves.

Doing the research to "prove" all this is more than I want to do. :)

Point is you want to map the county by age of development, more than north/south. pbannister (talk) 17:26, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Very interesting summary. With existing and additional reliable sources, the content can be slowly updated one sentence at a time. Cheers, Fettlemap (talk) 17:36, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Orange County, California's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Census":

• From Los Angeles: "Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on August 12, 2012. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
• From Hispanic: "Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. p. 216.
• From Lawndale, California: United States Census Bureau. “[1].”
• From Native Americans in the United States: "Preference for Racial or Ethnic Terminology". Infoplease. Retrieved February 8, 2006.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 10:50, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is more than one notable place named "Orange County", some of which should have their own articles, while the rest might share a list article.

 As of now, the existing disambiguation page at [[Orange County][ is not easily reachable from this article that comes out as a top search result in those search engines that reuse Bing data. 77.241.136.145 (talk) 18:36, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

county unit to provide assistance to older citizens. Help find care givers, domestic help,transportation, etc. 2603:7080:5000:28CD:4B53:6518:BB67:1900 (talk) 00:37, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]