The City is fortunate to be located in the center of Southern California, and has become home to many leading businesses, hospitals, and commercial centers. In addition, the City has excellent educational opportunities from preschool through post-graduate programs, including Santiago Canyon College and Chapman University and its Law School. The University of California at Irvine has its Medical Center strategically located here. The City is served by the Orange Unified School District, which provides elementary, middle and high schools throughout the City.

The City provides a full range of services for its citizens, including police, fire, paramedic, library, recreation and parks, planning and development, street improvements and lighting, and general administration. The City also operates a water utility and provides for refuse collection and sanitation. In addition, the City provides aid to its citizens in the form of residential and commercial rehabilitation loans and economic development programs. Facilities abound for golf, tennis and swimming. An extensive system of public parks provides recreation facilities including many equestrian trails.

Orange can be roughly divided along Highway 55 to identify the old (west) from the new (east). One way to approach "old" Orange is to start in the old town with its traffic circle (Chapman Avenue and Glassell Street) and quaint bungalows and Victorians, and city hall with the cannon in front, and drive north, criss-crossing back and forth, but staying west of the freeway.

Although some styles are mixed, gradually the buildings will get newer, the Fifties styles will move up to Sixties, and these designs will graduate into the Seventies. Many of the homes will be three-bedroom, two bath, but four-bedrooms are also popular. Mostly one story. The great majority nicely kept. Security doors here and there, but not many.

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