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Santa Ana is part of a metropolitan area which includes Los Angeles and Long Beach. When it comes to gross metropolitan product of U.S. metro areas, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA is ranked number two in 2013 with a GMP of $792.2 billion. When gross domestic product (GDP) and gross metropolitan product (GMP) for country or metro area were compared, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA ranked number 20 for their 2013 numbers. The ranking for Santa Ana was higher than both Saudi Arabia and Switzerland, which ranked 21 and 22 respectively. The estimated annual growth rate of United States metro area economies from 2013-2020 is 2.9 percent with $686.5 billion in 2013 and an estimated $838.2 billion in 2020.

According to real gross metropolitan product and employment growth rates from 2013 to 2015, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA metropolitan area ranked number two according to its 2013 GMP. Its percent change in employment was 1.7 in 2013, 1.1 in 2014, and 1.5 in 2015 and its percent change in real GMP 2.7 in 2013, 1.8 in 2014, and 2.6 in 2015. Real gross state and metropolitan output in terms of annual growth percentages in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA was 2.3 in 2014 and 3.3 in 2015. In terms of end of the year value, the metro area unemployment rates in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA were 9.6 percent in 2012, 8.5 percent in 2013, 7.6 percent in 2014, and 7.0 percent in 2015, and will be approximately 6.7 percent in 2016. The unemployment growth rate from 2012 to 2016 is negative 2.9 percent.

There was a recession in the last 2000s and the expected year for return to peak employment for the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA area is 2015. The pre-recession peak year was 2007. Due to the recession, 519.3 thousands of jobs were lost, this was a decline percent was 9. According to the Employment Development Department, the current unemployment rate for 2015 is 5 percent.

When it comes to building activity, the total valuation of all construction comes up to be $155,402,851.

According to the California State Department of Finance, Demographic Research Unit, the current population for 2015 is 335,264. The population is 78.2 percent Hispanic with 253,928, 10.4 percent Asian with 33,618, 9.2 percent white with 29,950, one percent black with 3,177, 0.2 percent American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut with 507, .3 percent Pacific Islander with 826, .1 percent other with 375, and 0.7 percent two or more races with 2,147. According to the 2010 United States Census Bureau, the median age is 29.1. As of 2015, 52,582 residents are enrolled in Santa Ana Unified School District K-12 schools with 11,156 resident students attending Garden Grove schools within Santa Ana and Garden Grove city limits in Garden Grove Unified School District.

According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, 93,915 residents are registered to vote.

According to the State of California, Employment Development Department, 161,100 residents are a part of the civilian labor force.