Download the 2018 Orange County Community Indicators Report

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ........................... 1 Health ..................................... 56 HEALTH CARE ACCESS ...............................56 Orange County Profile .......................2 HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION ...........................59 Children’s Health and Wellbeing Pivot Point .... 4 OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY ........................... 60 CHRONIC DISEASE ....................................62 Opportunity Gap Pivot Point ................ 12 MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE .............64 Housing Pivot Point ......................... 20 WELLBEING OF OLDER ADULTS .......................66 Economy .................................. 30 Safety ..................................... 68 EMPLOYMENT ........................................30 CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT ..........................68 HIGH-TECH DIVERSITY AND GROWTH ..................32 CRIME RATE ..........................................69 INNOVATION .........................................33 JUVENILE CRIME ......................................70 DRINKING AND DRIVING. .71 Housing ................................... 34 HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ............................34 Infrastructure .............................. 72 RENTAL AFFORDABILITY ..............................36 TRANSPORTATION .................................... 72 HOUSING SECURITY. 38 WATER USE AND SUPPLY .............................. 74 Income ....................................40 COST OF LIVING AND HOUSEHOLD INCOME ............ 40 FAMILY FINANCIAL STABILITY .........................42 Education .................................44 KINDERGARTEN READINESS ........................... 44 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: LITERACY .................46 ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: MATHEMATICS .............47 HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT RATE ........................48 COLLEGE READINESS .................................50 HIGH SCHOOL STEM PARTICIPATION ...................52 STEM-RELATED DEGREES .............................54 B • INTRODUCTION The 2018 Community Indicators report highlights many areas where Orange County excels. For instance, we have a growing and diverse economy, with increasing median household incomes. More students took career-focused courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and graduated from high school ready for college. And Orange County’s crime rate is low compared to our neighbors and peers. In contrast, the report also flags several stubborn Policy Framework that was developed to provide problems. For example, it shows the limited a common vision and language for achieving availability of housing options in Orange County resilient families, quality early education, and – even for residents with steady employment in comprehensive health and development for young well-paying jobs, let alone those households with children. The guiding sentiment of this work is minimum wage workers that must hold multiple that Orange County prospers if its young children jobs to afford rent. While median income is are prepared to succeed in life. The Pivot Point on increasing, that growth is not enough to the opportunity gap examines how high schools ameliorate greater growth in the cost of living and community colleges are stepping up to here, which is 87% higher than the national prepare students and mid-career professionals to average. Childhood and adult obesity continue fill higher-paying middle-skill jobs available today to plague the health of our residents, and in Orange County. The final Pivot Point on housing hospitalizations of children and youth for mental takes an in-depth look at homelessness in Orange health issues are rising at an alarming rate. County, identifying the key contributing factors to homelessness and solutions at work. These persistent issues fuel, in part, the report’s three Pivot Points. Since 2015, the Pivot Points As you read and respond to the data and findings have taken a closer look at the issues of housing, in this report, we hope it will inspire you to join in the opportunity gap, and children’s health and the dialogue and take action to address the wellbeing – viewed through a different lens each important issues facing this dynamic place we year. This year, the Pivot Point on children’s health call home. and wellbeing describes the Early Childhood Introduction 1 ORANGE COUNTY PROFILE PLACE 799 42 4,036 34 8% of the California population lives in OC on Land area Miles of coastline Persons per square mile Cities and several large (square miles) unincorporated areas 0.5% of the state’s land area PEOPLE 3,220,451 3,558,071 10% Population 2018 Population 2040 Projected percent growth between 2018 and 2040 Age Orange County residents age 65 and older are the only age group that is projected to grow as a proportion of the THE DEPENDENCY RATIO total population between 2018 and 2040. All other age Demographic trends like those occurring in Orange County may groups will shrink proportionately. While this growth in the have serious ramifications. The fewer people of working age, the number of seniors mirrors national and statewide trends, fewer there are to sustain schools, pensions and other supports the growth is more pronounced in Orange County than in to the youngest and oldest members of a population. By 2040, the state or nation as a whole. the burden on the average working age resident to financially support the dependent population will grow from 60 dependent SENIOR POPULATION GROWING WHILE ALL age residents for every 100 working age residents to 79 for every OTHERS SHRINK 100. The burden is projected to grow to 84 per 100 by 2060. Projected Change in Age Group Proportions of Total Orange County Population, 2018 and 2040 NUMBER OF DEPENDENT AGE RESIDENTS (AGES 0-17 AND 65+) PER 100 WORKING AGE RESIDENTS 27% 26% 60 79 84 25% 24% 2018 2040 2060 23% 15% 15% 12% 10% 9% 7% 5% 2018 2040 0-5 6-17 18-24 25-44 45-64 65+ Race/Ethnicity Orange County is becoming increasingly diverse, with no COUNTY WILL REMAIN DIVERSE INTO THE FUTURE one race or ethnicity comprising a majority. A prosperous Projected Change in the Three Largest Racial and Ethnic Groups as Orange County is one in which all residents have the best Proportions of the Total Orange County Population, 2018 and 2040 possible opportunities for quality education, health, employment, and over all wellbeing. Orange County schools, businesses, nonprofits and government agencies are laying 41% 35% 37% 37% the foundation today for Orange County’s long-term prosperity by working to ensure that all residents, regardless 19% 21% of background, have the tools they need to be successful. 2018 2040 White Latino Asian 2 Orange County Community Indicators Foreign Born Civic Engagement 30% 54% 46% 62% of residents are of foreign born of all residents over of the voting-eligible population voted in the 2016 General Election foreign born residents are U.S. age five speak a citizens language other than English at home Education 15% 40% of adults over age 25 have less than a high school diploma of adults over age 25 have a Bachelor’s degree or higher ECONOMY $83,837 2.6% $785,500 Median household income (2016) Unemployment rate (April 2018) Median existing single-family home price (Dec 2017) Poverty ONE IN FIVE LATINO CHILDREN LIVE IN POVERTY Poverty data reveal that educational attainment is the single Percentage of Orange County Children (Age 0-17) in Poverty by greatest protective factor against a lifetime in poverty. Race/Ethnicity, 2016 Families whose head of household has a Bachelor’s degree or higher have a poverty rate of 4%, while families whose head of household did not graduate from high school have a poverty rate of 24%. 26.3% 16.9% or 120,188 EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT PROTECTS FAMILIES AGAINST POVERTY 11.2% Percentage of Families in Poverty by Educational Attainment of the Householder in Orange County, 2016 6.5% LATINO ASIAN WHITE 24% 12.5% Orange County residents living in poverty Overall family poverty rate, 9% 13% 7% Orange County children in poverty 16.9% 4% LESS THAN HIGH SCHOOL SOME BACHELOR’S HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE COLLEGE, DEGREE OR GRADUATE (INCLUDES ASSOCIATE’S HIGHER EQUIVALENCY) DEGREE 30% of Orange County neighborhoods have a high concentration of financially unstable families Data Notes For the dependency ratio analysis, the “working age” productive population is calculated using those ages 18-64. While many residents over age 65 continue working, this is the approximate age that residents may begin drawing on benefits such as pensions, social security, and Medicare. The racial and ethnic categories presented are the three largest in Orange County and are not mutually exclusive. Latino includes children of any race who are of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. Asian includes the race Asian alone and includes both Hispanic and non-Hispanic. White, non-Hispanic includes only White alone and non-Hispanic. Projection data by race/ethnicity and age have been updated by the source. Sources: Place – Land Area: County of Orange Public Works; Density: U.S. Census Bureau, GHT-PH1-R: Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density, Census 2010 (land area) and 2017 Census Population Estimates Program People – Population 2018 and 2040: California Department of Finance, Table P-2; Race/Ethnicity and Age: California Department of Finance, Table P-2; Foreign Born, Language: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates, Table DP02; Voter Turnout: California Secretary of State Education – Educational Attainment: U.S. Census Bureau, 2016 American Community Survey, 1-Year Estimates, Table DP02 Economy –

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