Orange County, California

Overview

Orange County's FY 2025-26 Final Budget appropriates $10,800,247,030 across all funds (B0001 "Total All Funds," FY 2025-26 Adopted column), up $31,362,419 from the recommended budget of $10,768,884,611 through the Exhibits 1–9 changes. For context, the same report shows FY 2023-24 actuals of $8,309,129,476 and an FY 2024-25 modified budget of $9,889,756,463. The resolution adopts the budget by appropriation for each budget unit and directs the Auditor-Controller to maintain control over appropriations by object.

Source: County of Orange FY 2025-26 Final Budget ASR, Attachment A, resolution and Exhibit 1-D (B0001).

At a glance — FY 2025-26 adopted

Source: County of Orange FY 2025-26 Final Budget ASR, Attachment A, B0001 total row and resolution.

Largest budget controls — FY 2025-26 adopted

The five largest budget controls in the B0001 report sum to $4,068,590,533. All other budget controls together account for the remaining $6,731,656,497, shown as a computed residual so the table sums exactly to the adopted total of $10,800,247,030.

Each control total above was verified against its B0001 control-total row (the same figures also appear in the Exhibit 1-A adjustments report's adopted column).

Source: County of Orange FY 2025-26 Final Budget ASR, Attachment A, Exhibit 1-D (B0001) control totals.

Positions

The adopting resolution adds a net 40 positions: 31 regular and 9 limited term, as detailed on Exhibit 9-B of Attachment A, and amends the Master Position Control accordingly.

Source: County of Orange FY 2025-26 Final Budget ASR, Attachment A, resolution items 1.D and 2.

Livability — Orange County

Orange County scores 59.3 on the Hometown Numbers Livability Index, ranked #11 of 58 ranked California counties. Violent crime: 311.3 reported violent crimes per 100,000 residents in 2024 (FBI Crime Data Explorer; score 78.1, where a higher score means a lower rate). Full rankings: California livability rankings.

Method: percentile rank (count below + 0.5 × count equal) ÷ N × 100, lower-better measures inverted; composite is the mean of available component scores, rounded to 1 decimal; a county needs at least 5 of 7 components or it is unranked, never estimated. Vintages: ACS 2024 5-year (2020–2024) for housing affordability, income, and commute; FBI Crime Data Explorer 2024 for violent crime; County Health Rankings 2025 release for graduation and uninsured. Unemployment (BLS LAUS 2024) is missing for every California county because the BLS public API was unreachable (HTTP 503) on 2026-10-25; composites rest on the other components and will be recomputed if BLS data becomes available.

Housing prices — Orange County

County-level figures for Orange County. (this dashboard is for the City of Orange.)

Source: American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates (2020–2024), tables B25077 (median home value) and B25064 (median gross rent).

Public schools — Orange County

Schools physically located in Orange County.

643 public schools in 76 school districts, from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES EDGE Public School Locations, 2024–25 school year).

5 schools in the NCES 2024–25 locations list for this county are not shown because they are not currently open: Magnolia Science Academy - Orange County (status 7), Orange County Academy of Sciences and Arts III (status 7), Orange Springs Charter (status 7), Santa Ana Virtual Academy (status 7), Sycamore Creek Community Charter II (status 7) — temporarily closed (status 6) or scheduled to open within 2 years (status 7) under NCES CCD operational status codes.

School performance (proficiency): district-level proficiency values are published in the federal Ed Data Express tool and are retrievable by CSV export, but they have not yet been added to this page — the export requires a live-browser download (direct requests to the tool are blocked), so no proficiency figures are shown rather than substituted ones. Source for the list: NCES EDGE Public School Locations — Current, 2024–25.

Neighbor comparison

How Orange County’s General Fund spending per resident and fund-balance share compare with adjacent counties, computed from each dashboard’s own published figures.

GF total dashed: no GF subtotal printed (B0001 appropriations report prints no General Fund subtotal, per page disclosure)

Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Los Angeles County: GF total dashed: no GF total claimed: page's fund-group label is 'Total General County' ($40,097M), explicitly not 'General Fund' alone

Los Angeles County: Fund-balance % dashed: no GF ending balance published

Riverside County: No Riverside County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.

San Bernardino County: No San Bernardino County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.

San Diego County: No San Diego County dashboard in this dataset (no county GF figure exists here); a city dashboard in the county, if any, does not supply a county figure.

Per-capita GF spending = the dashboard’s published General Fund total ÷ county population (ACS 2024 5-year, table B01003). Fund balance % = published GF ending balance ÷ GF total for the same fiscal year unless noted.

— in the fund-balance column means no GF ending balance is published on that dashboard (adopted budgets typically state only a January 1 balance).

Neighbor rows are county figures for the counties adjacent to the home county (U.S. Census Bureau County Adjacency File, 2024; out-of-state neighbors excluded).

Sources & notes

• Only source used: County of Orange FY 2025-26 Final Budget ASR, Attachment A (645 pages: resolution + Exhibits 1-A through 9-C), June 24, 2025 Board agenda. Read the Final Budget ASR.
• Sum checks: $10,800,247,030 − $10,768,884,611 = $31,362,419; the five largest controls ($4,068,590,533) + computed residual ($6,731,656,497) = $10,800,247,030 exactly.
• Disclosed, not smoothed: (1) no General Fund subtotal is printed in the B0001 report, so no General Fund total is claimed; (2) no all-funds revenue total row appears in the B0004 report as retrieved, so no all-funds revenue total is claimed; (3) the "all other budget controls" line is a computed residual, not a printed subtotal.
• Fiscal-year label: FY 2025-26 (July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026); adopted June 24, 2025, by resolution adopting the Recommended Budget as the Final Budget subject to Exhibits 1–9 changes.
• Jurisdiction palette: Page accent: #FF8C00, sampled from the City of Orange's official homepage (cityoforange.org) on 2026-10-25 — bright orange logo word, circular service icons, and footer section headings; header/nav renders white (unusable as an accent); dark teal buttons #007A7A and dark gray footer #4D4D4D noted; Granicus platform template with jurisdiction-specific colors; the dark-theme accent (#FFDDB3) is a lightened tint of the same color for contrast on the dark background. Shades are rendered approximations from the live homepage, not stylesheet values.

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