About Santa Ana College

Santa Ana College is a public community school in Santa Ana, California.

Santa Ana /ˌsæntə ˈænə/ (Spanish for ‘Saint Anne’) is the second most populous city and the county chair of Orange County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The United States Census Bureau estimated its 2019 population at 332,318, making Santa Ana the 57th-most populous city in the United States.

Santa Ana is in Southern California, adjacent to the Santa Ana River, about 10 miles (16 km) from the coast. Founded in 1869, the city is share of the Greater Los Angeles Area, the second-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with in this area 18 million residents in 2010. Santa Ana is a utterly densely populated city, ranking fourth nationally in that regard in the middle of cities of higher than 300,000 residents (trailing abandoned New York City, San Francisco, and Boston). In 2011, Forbes ranked Santa Ana the fourth-safest city of beyond 250,000 residents in the United States. Santa Ana’s northwestern and southern edges are allowance of the two largest poster clusters in Orange County: the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city and the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city.

Santa Ana lends its herald to the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), which runs through the city. It as a consequence shares its name later than the open Santa Ana Mountains, and the Santa Ana winds, which have historically fueled seasonal wildfires throughout Southern California. The current Office of Management and Budget (OMB) metropolitan designation for the Orange County Area is Santa Ana–Anaheim–Irvine, California.

Approximately four-fifths Latino, the New York Times characterizes Santa Ana as the “face of a new California, a permit where Latinos have more fake in unnamed life — electorally, culturally and demographically — than regarding anywhere else in the country.”