City, Orange County
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Zip Code: 90680
Small,
fragmented city surrounded almost
entirely by Garden Grove. Population 39,276. www.mccormacks.com
Stanton
started booming in the 1950s when its population went from 1,762 to 11,163. After
1960, the town added 5,000 to 7,000 residents each decade and by 2000 had a
population of 37,403. Running out of land, it has since added about 1,400
people.
This makes
it an old-new suburb with a good deal of housing that falls into the range of
what is considered “affordable.” Many apartments and condos and a fair number
of mobile homes.
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State in
2008 counted 11,161 housing units — 3,029 single detached homes, 1,873
single attached, 4,997 multiples and 1,262 mobiles. Most of the people live in
tracts west of Beach Boulevard.
Served by
Magnolia, Garden Grove, Savanna and Anaheim School districts. Many of the schools
are located just outside city limits. See Schools.
Many young
families. Persons under age 21 make up 35 percent of population. Median age
of residents is 30. www.mccormacks.com
Garden
Grove snakes around Stanton and seems to bite into its natural borders.
Unincorporated pockets of land show up east of Beach Boulevard. Railroad tracks
crisscross the town.
The result
is a city that residentially seems a little of this and a little of that
scattered around Beach Boulevard and its main cross street, Katella Avenue.
Stanton extends about three miles north-south and, for the most part, measures
less than a mile east-west.
Stanton built
about 2,000 residential units in the 1950s. In the following decade, the town
constructed 2,400 units and in the 1970s, about 3,500 units. These three
decades account for 71 percent of all housing units in town.
In the
1980s, housing starts numbered 1,500 and in the last decade, 900. Stanton is filling
in empty lots and through redevelopment replacing old businesses with new and
with townhouses and live-work lofts blended with retail.
The oldest
and often the smallest housing can be found north of Katella Avenue and west of
Beach Boulevard. One-car garages, some security doors but also many homes that
show care and attention. www.mccormacks.com
Moving
south of Katella the Sixties look takes over: two-car garages, gingerbread
facing, three-bedroom homes, appearances generally kept up. Similar tracts can
be found on the other side of Beach. For the newest homes and townhouses try
Cerritos Avenue, especially on west side.
Shops and
little malls along Beach, industry along Katella. Two large supermarkets. Two
large malls within a short drive.
New civic
center. Cultural Arts and Recreation Center, tennis courts. Boys and Girls Club,
which in 2006 added a teen center. Sports and activities for kids and adults.
Summer camp. Six parks, one of them with three softball fields and a soccer
field, all lighted. Another park to be opened in 2007. Tennis courts. Stanton
draws on the facilities of other cities for ice-skating classes and golf
lessons. Utility tax pays for community programs and extra cops.
Three
homicides each in 2005 and 2004, one in 2003, two in 2002, one in 2001, one in
2000. For preceding years 5, 3, 5, 2, 3, 5, 4, 4, 5, 3, 3, 3 and 1. Stanton
contracts with the sheriff for police protection. Sheriff’s station in town. See Crime.
Highway 22
runs along the south side of town. Beach Boulevard, straight and flat, is one
of the major arterials of North Orange County. Many jobs within a drive of 10
to 20 miles and for this reason alone Stanton should be considered a good
commute city. www.mccormacks.com
Chamber of
commerce (714) 995-1485.
City web
site: www.ci.stanton.ca.us
