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Garden Grove is the fifth-largest city in Orange County, but is something of a mystery to those who haven\u2019t ventured into one of Southern California\u2019s most diverse, culturally vibrant communities except when en route to a nearby destination such as Disneyland.<\/p>\n

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But the city of more than 170,000 in northwest Orange County was thrust into the spotlight this week with the growing threat of a chemical explosion or leak at GKN Aerospace.<\/p>\n

The industrial location is a little more than 6 miles west of Christ Cathedral and the Disney resort area, around the same distance east of Leisure World in Seal Beach and about 4 miles south of Knott\u2019s Berry Farm. Going on this Memorial Day weekend near the city\u2019s historic Main Street is the annual Garden Grove Strawberry Festival, now in its 66th year \u2014 though the Saturday morning parade and 5K were canceled.<\/p>\n

Garden Grove is known to many as one of the Orange County cities, along with Westminster, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana, that include Little Saigon, home to thousands of Vietnamese Americans and a thriving business community.<\/p>\n

But it also includes a lot of industry. GKN Aerospace is in the heart of the industrial center, Garden Grove City Councilmember George Brietigam said of the hub that includes the Garden Grove Army Base and companies such as Air Industries, Southland Industries and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s mostly industrial properties along Western (Avenue),\u201d he said. \u201cBut you just go three blocks west, and then that\u2019s where the West Garden Grove starts. And the housing goes from Springdale all the way down to the Seal Beach border.\u201d<\/p>\n

Evacuations for the area touch 40,000 residents, and \u201cit\u2019s a predominantly older community,\u201d Brietigam said.<\/p>\n

The specific demographics of the evacuation zone aren\u2019t clear, but the U.S. Census Bureau released a look at the city in 2025 that showed:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 43.1% of residents are Asian, 37.1% are Hispanic or Latino and 15.9% White (but not Hispanic or Latino);<\/p>\n

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\u2022 The median household income is $92,174;<\/p>\n

\u2022 20.9% of the population is younger than 18, and 15.6% is 65 or older.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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