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Location of Westminster inside Orange County, California.
Westminster, California is positioned in the US Westminster, California - Westminster, California Westminster is a town/city in Orange County, California in the Los Angeles urbane area.
Originally, the town/city was titled Tri-City because it was the amalgamation of three cities: Westminster, Barber City, and Midway City.
Midway City ultimately refused incorporation, leaving only Barber City to be combined into the newly incorporated Westminster.
The former Barber City was positioned in the portion of the current town/city of Westminster.
Westminster is landlocked and bordered by Seal Beach on the west, by Garden Grove on the north and east, and by Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley on the south.
Westminster surrounds the unincorporated region of Midway City, except for a small portion where Midway City meets Huntington Beach to the south.
A large number of Vietnamese refugees immigrated to the town/city during the 1980s, settling largely in an region now officially titled Little Saigon, and the town/city is unofficially known as the "capital" of overseas Vietnamese with 36,058 Vietnamese Americans and at 40.2% (2010), the highest municipal prevalence of Vietnamese Americans.
Westminster won the All-America City Award in 1996. Westminster is positioned at 33 45 5 N 117 59 38 W (33.752418, -117.993938). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.0 square miles (26 km2), all land.
The San Diego Freeway and a short segment of the Garden Grove Freeway pass through Westminster.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Westminster had a populace of 89,701.
The ethnic makeup of Westminster was 32,037 (35.7%) White (25.6% Non-Hispanic White), 849 (0.9%) African American, 397 (0.4%) Native American, 42,597 (47.5%) Asian, 361 (0.4%) Pacific Islander, 10,229 (11.4%) from other competitions, and 3,231 (3.6%) from two or more competitions.
A total of 36,058 inhabitants were of Vietnamese lineage (40.2% of town/city residents), the highest concentration of Vietnamese Americans of any improve in the United States.
The Enumeration reported that 89,031 citizens (99.3% of the population) lived in homeholds, 381 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 289 (0.3%) were institutionalized.
There were 26,164 homeholds, out of which 10,759 (41.1%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 14,986 (57.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 3,681 (14.1%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 1,810 (6.9%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 20,920 citizens (23.3%) under the age of 18, 8,568 citizens (9.6%) aged 18 to 24, 24,065 citizens (26.8%) aged 25 to 44, 23,356 citizens (26.0%) aged 45 to 64, and 12,792 citizens (14.3%) who were 65 years of age or older.
51,408 citizens (57.3% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 37,623 citizens (41.9%) lived in rental housing units.
During 2009 2013, Westminster had a median homehold income of $52,633, with 16.7% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. As of the census of 2000, there were 88,207 citizens , 26,406 homeholds, and 20,411 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 45.79% White, 0.99% African American, 0.61% Native American, 38.13% Asian, 0.46% Pacific Islander, 10.19% from other competitions, and 3.84% from two or more competitions.
There were 26,406 homeholds out of which 37.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 58.4% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 22.7% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 25.9% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 32.6% from 25 to 44, 21.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $49,450, and the median income for a family was $54,399.
In the California State Legislature, Westminster is in the 34th Senate District, represented by Republican Janet Nguyen, and in the 72nd Assembly District, represented by Republican Travis Allen. In the United States House of Representatives, Westminster is split between California's 47th congressional district, represented by Democrat Alan Lowenthal, and California's 48th congressional district, represented by Republican Dana Rohrabacher. According to the city's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 Westminster School District 1,150 5 City of Westminster 397 The city's primary shopping mall is Westminster Mall, which consists of more than 180 stores.
And in Westminster's Little Saigon community, the Asian Garden Mall (Ph c L c Th ), a large Asian mall, exists.
Since joining the Sequential Brands company, the DVS Shoes footwear brand relocated from Torrance, California to Westminster.
Four school districts have boundaries that cover parts of Westminster: Westminster School District A memorial and final resting place for the victims of the Pan Am plane involved in the Tenerife Disaster of March 27, 1977, is positioned in Westminster.
The universal was initiated by Westminster City Councilman Frank G.
Nguy n Cao K , former Prime Minister of South Vietnam, lived in exile in Westminster, where he ran a liquor store "Westminster, California".
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