According to this weeks Business Journal, Orange County's 34 cities added people and revenue in the past year with fast growing Irvine overtaking Huntington beach as the third largest city.
The list ranks cities by current population and includes yearly revenue, city workers and large employers. All together, the cities have 2.99 million residents, which is virtually all of the county's 3 million people.
Residents in the cities were up 1%, or 30,555 people, from a year earlier. The five biggest cities- Santa Ana, Anaheim, Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove have 1.28 million people, more than 40% of the county's total.
Workers and Revenues have grown too. These cities employ 15,355 people, up to 10 % from a year earlier. Their revenue grew 2.3% to $2.05 billion for 12 months through June.
Irvine was the only city on the list to change its ranking from a year earlier moving up a spot from number 4 and displacing Huntington Beach, the county's longtime largest number 3 spot.
Residents in Irvine grew 4.3 % to 209,806 people, the most growth of any city on the list.
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