While more than six in ten current residents of Orange County have lived in their community at least a decade, there is a considerable proportion of new residents. About a quarter of county residents moved into their community since 2002.
63% of Orange County residents have called their community home for more than ten years, 13% have lived in the area for six to ten years, and 24% of residents are new, having moved to the area in the past five years. In 2002, county residents had lived in the community on average for about 24 years. Today, the average length of residence is a shorter 21 years.
Orange County residents under the age of forty-five are more likely than older residents to be recent arrivals. Nearly four in ten county residents in this younger age group moved to their community in the past five years compared with 13% of residents age forty-five or older.
