Anaheim, California

Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the tenth-most populous city in California, and the 57th-most populous city in the United States. The second largest city in Orange County in terms of land area, Anaheim is known for being the home of the Disneyland Resort, the Anaheim Convention Center, and two professional sports teams: the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). It also served as the home of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL) from 1980 through 1994.

Anaheim was founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated as the second city in Los Angeles County on March 18, 1876;

Anaheim's city limits extend almost the full width of Orange County, from Cypress in the west, twenty miles east to the Riverside County line, encompassing a diverse range of neighborhoods. In the west, mid-20th-century tract houses predominate. Downtown Anaheim has three mixed-use historic districts, the largest of which is the Anaheim Colony. South of downtown, a center of commercial activity of regional importance begins, the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city, which stretches east and south into the cities of Orange, Santa Ana, and Garden Grove. This edge city includes the Disneyland Resort, with two theme parks, multiple hotels, and its retail district; Disney is part of the larger Anaheim Resort district with numerous other hotels and retail complexes. The Platinum Triangle, a neo-urban redevelopment district surrounding Angel Stadium, is planned to be populated with mixed-use streets and high-rises. Further east, Anaheim Canyon is an industrial district north of the Riverside Freeway (SR 91) and east of the Orange Freeway (SR 57). The city's eastern third consists of Anaheim Hills, a community built to a master plan, and open land east of the Eastern Transportation Corridor (SR 241 toll road).

Toponymy

Anaheim's name is a blend of Ana, after the nearby Santa Ana River, and German -heim meaning "home", which is also a common Germanic place name compound (compare Trondheim in Norway and many place names in Germany).

History

Tongva era

Tongva people are indigenous to Anaheim's region of Southern California. Evidence suggests their presence since 3500 BCE. The Tongva village at Anaheim was called Hutuukuga. The village has been noted as one of the largest Tongva villages throughout Tovaangar. Native plants like oak trees and sage bushes were an important food source, as well as rabbit and mule deer for meat. The village had deep trade connections with coastal villages and those further inland. and whose families had originated in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Franconia in Bavaria. After traveling through the state looking for a suitable area to grow grapes, the group decided to purchase a parcel from Juan Pacífico Ontiveros' large Rancho San Juan Cajón de Santa Ana in present-day Orange County for $2 per acre. For 25 years, the area was the largest wine producer in California.

Anaheim's Chinatown

German settlers traveled to San Francisco to recruit thirty Chinese laborers. Each Chinese laborer was compensated with a town lot, and these parcels later formed the spatial foundation of Anaheim’s early Chinatown. Helena Street and Clementine Street in West Anaheim, is also named after Helena Modjeska.

Early 20th century

thumb|Anaheim High School,

During the first half of the 20th century, Anaheim was a massive rural community dominated by orange groves and the landowners who farmed them. One of the landowners was Bennett Payne Baxter, who owned much land in northeast Anaheim that today is the location of Angel Stadium. He came up with many new ideas for irrigating orange groves and shared his ideas with other landowners. He was not only successful, he helped other landowners and businesspeople succeed as well. Ben Baxter and other landowners helped to make Anaheim a thriving rural community before the opening of Disneyland transformed the city. A street along Edison Park in East Anaheim was also named after him.

thumb|right|Anaheim in 1922

In 1924, Ku Klux Klan members were elected to the Anaheim City Council on a platform of political reform. Up until that point, the city had been controlled by a long-standing business and civic elite that was mostly German American. Given their tradition of moderate social drinking, the German Americans did not strongly support prohibition laws of the day. The mayor himself was a former saloon keeper. Led by the minister of the First Christian Church, the Klan represented a rising group of politically oriented non-ethnic Germans who denounced the elite as corrupt, undemocratic, and self-serving. The Klansmen aimed to create what they saw as a model, orderly community, one in which prohibition against alcohol would be strictly enforced. At the time, the KKK had about 1,200 members in Orange County. The economic and occupational profile of the pro and anti-Klan groups shows the two were similar and about equally prosperous. Klan members were Protestants, as were the majority of their opponents; however, the opposition to the Klan also included many Catholic Germans. Individuals who joined the Klan had earlier demonstrated a much higher rate of voting and civic activism than did their opponents, and many of the individuals in Orange County who joined the Klan did so out of a sense of civic activism. Upon easily winning the local Anaheim election in April 1924, the Klan representatives promptly fired city employees who were known to be Catholic and replaced them with Klan appointees. The new city council tried to enforce prohibition. After its victory, the Klan chapter held large rallies and initiation ceremonies over the summer.

Mid to late 20th century

Facilitation of new industries and suburban residents was possible due to the expansion of highways out of Los Angeles. Population dispersal efforts were made by the California's Division of Highways in order to subvert an easily targeted population cluster for atomic threats in the aftermath of World War II.

Fricker Fertilizer Factory Fire

The Fricker Fertilizer Factory fire on June 21, 1985 has been considered to be one of the worst environmental disasters in Orange County. Working-class neighborhoods within a 2-mile radius in the cities of Fullerton, Anaheim, and Placentia were evacuated, resulting in a conservative estimate more than 7,500 evacuees and the closure of the 57 freeway for two days.

Cleanup operations are recorded to have removed four tons of ammonium nitrate in order to avoid additional explosions.

By the mid-1960s, the city's explosive growth would attract a Major League Baseball team, with the California Angels relocating from Los Angeles to Anaheim in 1966, where they have remained since. In 1980, the National Football League's Los Angeles Rams relocated from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to the Angels' home field, Anaheim Stadium, playing there until their relocation to St. Louis in 1995. In 1993, Anaheim gained its own National Hockey League team when The Walt Disney Company founded the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

In the 1990s, while Disneyland was undergoing a significant expansion project surrounding the construction of Disney California Adventure Park, the city of Anaheim rebranded the surrounding area as the Anaheim Resort. The Anaheim Resort district is roughly bounded by the Santa Ana River to the east, Ball Road to the north, Walnut Street to the west, and the Garden Grove city limits to the south at Chapman Avenue, and Orangewood Avenue to the southwest. Attractions within the Resort District include the Disneyland Resort, the Anaheim Convention Center, the Honda Center, Anaheim/Orange County Walk of Stars, and Angel Stadium of Anaheim.

Part of the project included removing the colorful neon signs and replacing them with shorter, more modest signs, as well as widening the arterial streets in the area into tree-lined boulevards. Further expansion included the purchase of the Fujishige Strawberry Farm in 1998 which sold for just under $100 million to Disney after nearly half a decade of financial proposals to the former owners. Today the former farm features a Hilton Hotel and is the site of the 'Toy Story' parking lot.

21st century

In 2001, Disney's California Adventure (renamed Disney California Adventure Park in 2010), the most expansive project in Disneyland's history, opened to the public. In 2007, Anaheim celebrated its sesquicentennial.

In July 2012, political protests by Hispanic residents occurred following the fatal shooting of two men, the first of whom was unarmed. Protesting occurred in the area between State College and East Street, and was motivated by concerns over police brutality, gang activity, domination of the city by commercial interests, and a perceived lack of political representation of Hispanic residents in the city government. The protests were accompanied by looting of businesses and homes.

Geography

Anaheim is approximately southeast of downtown Los Angeles. The city roughly follows the east-to-west route of the 91 Freeway from the Orange-Riverside county border to Buena Park.

Cityscape

The city recognizes several districts, including the Anaheim Resort (the area surrounding Disneyland), Anaheim Canyon (an industrial area north of California State Route 91 and east of California State Route 57), and the Platinum Triangle (the area surrounding Angel Stadium). Anaheim Hills also maintains a distinct identity. The contiguous commercial development from the Disney Resort through into the cities of Orange, Garden Grove and Santa Ana has collectively been termed the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city.

Climate

Like many other South Coast cities, Anaheim maintains a borderline hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh), a little short of a Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa) characterized by warm winters with erratic heavy rainfalls, and hot, essentially rainless summers. The record high temperature in Anaheim is on July 6, 2018 and the record low temperature is on February 15, 1990, and January 30, 2002.

Demographics

Anaheim first appeared as a city in Los Angeles County in the 1870 U.S. census;

!Pop 1990

!Pop 2000

!Pop 2010

!% 1980

!% 1990

!% 2000

!% 2010

|White alone (NH)

|167,658

|150,874

|117,607

|92,362

|style='background: #ffffe6; |78,237

|76.45%

|56.63%

|35.85%

|27.47%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |22.56%

|Black or African American alone (NH)

|2,593

|6,302

|7,939

|8,209

|style='background: #ffffe6; |8,465

|1.18%

|2.37%

|2.42%

|2.44%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.44%

|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|1,971

|996

|1,049

|743

|style='background: #ffffe6; |646

|0.90%

|0.37%

|0.32%

|0.22%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.19%

|Asian alone (NH)

| rowspan="2" |8,910

| rowspan="2" |24,083

|38,919

|49,210

|style='background: #ffffe6; |60,632

| rowspan="2" |4.06%

| rowspan="2" |9.04%

|11.87%

|14.63%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |17.48%

|Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|1,263

|1,437

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,297

|0.39%

|0.43%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.37%

|Other race alone (NH)

|588

|396

|457

|628

|style='background: #ffffe6; |1,485

|0.27%

|0.15%

|0.14%

|0.19%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.43%

|Mixed race or Multiracial (NH)

|7,406

|6,209

|style='background: #ffffe6; |9,411

|2.26%

|1.85%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.71%

|Hispanic or Latino (any race)

|37,591

|83,755

|153,374

|177,467

|style='background: #ffffe6; |186,651

|17.14%

|31.44%

|46.76%

|52.78%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |53.82%

|Total

|219,311

|266,406

|328,014

|336,467

|style='background: #ffffe6; |346,824

|100.00%

|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%

2020

The 2020 United States census reported that Anaheim had a population of 346,824. The population density was . The racial makeup of Anaheim was 31.1% White, 2.7% African American, 1.8% Native American, 17.7% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, 29.3% from other races, and 17.0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino residents of any race were 53.8% of the population.

The census reported that 98.6% of the population lived in households, 1.0% lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0.4% were institutionalized.

The age distribution was 22.6% under the age of 18, 10.5% aged 18 to 24, 29.4% aged 25 to 44, 24.8% aged 45 to 64, and 12.7% who were 65years of age or older. The median age was 35.6years. For every 100 females, there were 97.3 males.

The median household income in 2023 was $90,583, and the per capita income was $36,541. About 9.3% of families and 12.5% of the population were below the poverty line.

2010

The 2010 United States census reported that Anaheim had a population of 336,265. The population density was . The racial makeup of Anaheim was:

177,237 (52.7%) White (27.5% non-Hispanic White alone),
80,705 (24.0%) from other races
49,857 (14.8%) Asian (4.4% Vietnamese, 3.6% Filipino, 2.0% Korean, 1.4% Chinese, 1.3% Indian)
1,607 (0.5%) Pacific Islander
14,864 (4.4%) from two or more races (multiracial/mestizo)
9,347 (2.8%) African American
2,648 (0.8%) Native American

There were 177,467 Hispanic or Latino residents, of any race (52.8%); 46.0% of Anaheim's population was of Mexican descent, 1.2% Salvadoran, and 1.0% Guatemalan; the remainder of the Hispanic population came from smaller ancestral groups.

The census reported that 332,708 people (98.9% of the population) lived in households, 2,020 (0.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 1,537 (0.5%) were institutionalized.

There were 98,294 households, out of which 44,045 (44.8%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 52,518 (53.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 14,553 (14.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 7,223 (7.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 6,173 (6.3%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 733 (0.7%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 17,448 households (17.8%) were made up of individuals, and 6,396 (6.5%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.38. There were 74,294 families (75.6% of all households); the average family size was 3.79.

The age distribution of the population was as follows: 91,917 people (27.3%) under the age of 18, 36,506 (10.9%) aged 18 to 24, 101,110 (30.1%) aged 25 to 44, 75,510 (22.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 31,222 (9.3%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32.4 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males.

There were 104,237 housing units at an average density of , of which 47,677 (48.5%) were owner-occupied, and 50,617 (51.5%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 7.2%. 160,843 people (47.8% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 171,865 people (51.1%) lived in rental housing units.

At the 2010 census, Anaheim had a median household income of $59,627, with 15.6% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

According to NeighborhoodScout, German, English, Irish, Italian and Polish are the most common ancestries. Spanish and Vietnamese are the most common spoken non-English languages.

Economy

thumb|right|[[Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland]]

Anaheim's income is based on a tourism economy. In addition to The Walt Disney Company being the city's largest employer, the Disneyland Resort itself contributes about $4.7 billion annually to Southern California's economy. It also produces $255 million in taxes every year. Another source of tourism is the Anaheim Convention Center, which is home to many important national conferences. Many hotels, especially in the city's Resort district, serve theme park tourists and conventiongoers. Continuous development of commercial, entertainment, and cultural facilities stretches from the Disney area east to the Santa Ana River, south into the cities of Garden Grove, Orange and Santa Ana – collectively, this area has been labeled the Anaheim–Santa Ana edge city and is one of the three largest such clusters in Orange County, together with the South Coast Plaza–John Wayne Airport edge city and Irvine Spectrum.

The Anaheim Canyon business park makes up 63% of Anaheim's industrial space and is the largest industrial district in Orange County. Anaheim Canyon is also home to the second-largest business park in Orange County.

Several notable companies have corporate offices and/or headquarters within Anaheim.

Anaheim Memorial Medical Center
AT&T
Banco Popular, a bank based in Puerto Rico, has its mainland American headquarters in Anaheim
CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito restaurant chains (formerly headquartered)
Disneyland Resort, part of Disney Experiences, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company
Extron Electronics, designs, manufactures, and services A/V electronics worldwide
Fisker Automotive
Fujitsu, computer
General Dynamics
Hewlett-Packard
Isuzu North American headquarters
Kaiser Foundation
L-3 Communications
Living Stream Ministry
Pacific Sunwear
Panasonic
Pendarvis Manufacturing
Raytheon
Sunny Delight
Targus, a computer peripheral manufacturer
Tenet Healthcare
Toyota Financial Services
YKK, world's largest zipper manufacturing firm
Yogurtland
Zyxel, maker of routers, switches and other networking products

Top employers

According to the city's 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"

! #

! Employer

! # of employees

| 1

|Disneyland Resort

|36,000

| 2

|Kaiser Foundation Hospital

|4,500

|OC Sports & Entertainment

|2,000

| 4

|Northgate González Markets

|1,000

| 5

|Hilton Anaheim

|900

| 6

|Anaheim Regional Medical Center

|885

|L-3 Harris Technologies

|850

| 8

|West Anaheim Medical Center

|740

| 9

|Angels Baseball

|700

| 10

|Anaheim Marriott

|550

Retail

Larger retail centers include the Downtown Disney shopping area at the Disneyland Resort, the power centers Anaheim Plaza in western Anaheim (347,000 ft), and Anaheim Town Square in East Anaheim (374,000 ft), as well as the Anaheim GardenWalk lifestyle center (440,000 ft of retail, dining and entertainment located in the Anaheim Resort).

Attractions

Anaheim Convention Center
Anaheim GardenWalk
Anaheim Hills Golf Course
Anaheim Founders' Park
Anaheim Ice
Anaheim Packing House
Anaheim/OC Walk of Stars
MUZEO, Art Museum located in Downtown Anaheim
Oak Canyon Nature Center

Registered Historic Places

Anaheim Orange and Lemon Association Packing House
Carnegie Library played in 1978.
Continental Indoor Soccer League Team: The Anaheim Splash, played from 1994 to 1997.
California Surf of the now defunct North American Soccer League played from 1978 to 1981.
Anaheim Kingsmen Drum and Bugle Corps A part of Drum Corp International now defunct active from 1958 to 1991

Court battle against the Angels

thumb|[[Angel Stadium of Anaheim in 2003]]

On January 3, 2005, Angels Baseball LP, the ownership group for the Anaheim Angels, announced that it would change the name of the club to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Team spokesmen pointed out that from its inception, the Angels had been granted territorial rights by Major League Baseball to the counties of Los Angeles, Ventura, Riverside, and San Bernardino in addition to Orange County. The new owner, Arturo Moreno, believed the name would help him market the team to the entire Southern California region rather than just Orange County. The "of Anaheim" was included in the official name to comply with a provision of the team's lease at Angel Stadium which requires that "Anaheim" be included in the team's name.

Mayor Curt Pringle and other city officials countered that the name change violated the spirit of the lease clause, even if it was in technical compliance. They argued that a name change was a major bargaining chip in negotiations between the city and Disney Baseball Enterprises, Inc., then the ownership group for the Angels. They further argued that the city would never have agreed to the new lease without the name change, because the new lease required that the city partially fund the stadium's renovation, but provided very little revenue for Anaheim. Anaheim sued Angels Baseball LP in Orange County Superior Court, and a jury trial was completed in early February 2006, resulting in a victory for the Angels franchise.

Anaheim appealed the court decision with the California Court of Appeal in May 2006. The case was tied up in the Appeals Court for over two years. In December 2008, the Appeals Court upheld the February 2006 Decision and ruled in favor of Angels Baseball. In January 2009, the Anaheim City Council voted not to appeal the court case any further, bringing an end to the four-year legal dispute.

Government and politics

Anaheim was, at one point in time, one of the most politically conservative major cities in the United States. However, in recent years it has been moving leftward. According to the Orange County Registrar of Voters, as of May 5, 2025, Anaheim has 176,980 registered voters. Of those, 58,411 (41.27%) are registered Democrats, 39,885 (28.18%) are registered Republicans, and 37,877 (26.76%) have declined to state a political party.

{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin:1em; font-size:95%;"

|+ Anaheim city vote<br /> by party in presidential elections

|- style="background:lightgrey;"

! Year

! Democratic

! Republican

! Third parties

|align="center" |2024

|align="center" |52.90% 61,086

|align="center" |43.80% 50,603

|align="center" |3.20% 3,744

|align="center" |2020

|align="center" |57.93% 59,566

|align="center" |35.44% 36,438

|align="center" |6.63% 6,812

|align="center" |2012

|align="center" |52.73% 47,662

|align="center" |44.83% 40,517

|align="center" |2.44% 2,206

|align="center" |2008

|align="center" |51.34% 47,433

|align="center" |46.46% 42,924

|align="center" |2.19% 2,025

|align="center" |2004

|align="center" |40.95% 34,598

|align="center" |57.89% 48,914

|align="center" |1.16% 982

|align="center" |2000

|align="center" |43.93% 34,787

|align="center" |52.28% 41,401

|align="center" |3.80% 3,006

|align="center" |1996

|align="center" |40.38% 28,924

|align="center" |48.86% 34,999

|align="center" |10.75% 7,703

|align="center" |1992

|align="center" |32.46% 27,211

|align="center" |43.39% 36,375

|align="center" |24.16% 20,255

|align="center" |1988

|align="center" |31.58% 24,881

|align="center" |67.21% 52,954

|align="center" |1.22% 959

|align="center" |1984

|align="center" |24.28% 19,266

|align="center" |74.66% 59,238

|align="center" |1.05% 836

|align="center" |1980

|align="center" |23.34% 17,816

|align="center" |68.08% 51,960

|align="center" |8.58% 6,546

|align="center" |1976

|align="center" |39.67% 26,464

|align="center" |58.10% 38,758

|align="center" |2.23% 1,484

City government

right|thumb|Anaheim City Hall

Under its city charter, Anaheim operates under a council–manager government. Legislative authority is vested in a city council of seven nonpartisan members, who hire a professional city manager to oversee day-to-day operations. The mayor serves as the presiding officer of the city council in a first among equals role. Under the city's term limits, an individual may serve a maximum of two terms as a city council member and two terms as the mayor.

Up until 2014, all council seats were elected at large. Voters elected the mayor and four other members of the city council to serve four-year staggered terms. Elections for two council seats were held in years divisible by four while elections for the mayor and the two other council seats were elected during the intervening even-numbered years.

In response to protests and a California Voting Rights Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and several residents, the city placed two measures on the November 2014 ballot. Measure L proposed that council members be elected by district instead of at large. Measure M proposed to increase the number of council seats from five to seven. Both measures passed.

The current city council consists of:

Mayor Ashleigh Aitken (since 2022)
Mayor Pro Tem Natalie Meeks, District 6 (since 2022)
Ryan Balius, District 1 (since 2024)
Carlos A. Leon, District 2 (since 2022)
Natalie Rubalcava District 3 (since 2022)
Norma Campos Kurtz District 4 (since 2023)
Kristen M. Maahs, District 5 (since 2024)

Federal, state and county representation

In the United States House of Representatives, Anaheim is split between two districts:

since 2021, and
since 2017.

In the California State Senate, Anaheim is split between two districts: Water is sourced from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, importing water from Northern California and the Colorado River. Additionally, the Orange County Water District manages groundwater from the Santa Ana River, local rainfall, recycled water, and imported water.

Anaheim has decided to bury power lines along major transportation corridors, converting its electricity system for aesthetic and reliability purposes. To minimize the impact on customer bills, undergrounding is taking place slowly over a period of 50 years, funded by a 4% surcharge on electric bills.

Crime

In 2019, Anaheim reported 8 murders; given its population, this rate was lower than the average national rate by 17%. Reported rapes in the city are relatively uncommon as well, but have been increasing, along with the national average. Robbery (396 reported incidents) and aggravated assault (575 incidents) rank among the most frequent violent crimes in the city, though robbery rates are slightly less than the national average. 1,123 burglaries were reported, as well as 5,904 thefts and 1,231 car thefts. All three types of crime were below average.

The Uniform Crime Report (UCR), collected annually by the FBI, compiles police statistics from local and state law enforcement agencies across the nation. The UCR records Part I and Part II crimes. Part I crimes become known to law enforcement and are considered the most serious crimes including homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Part II crimes only include arrest data. The 2023 UCR Data for Anaheim is listed below:

{| class="wikitable"

|+2023 UCR Data

!Aggravated Assault

!Homicide

!Rape

!Robbery

!Burglary

!Larceny Theft

!Motor Vehicle Theft

!Arson

|Anaheim

|1,770

|132

|349

|1,518

|5,298

|1,610

|39

Education

Schools

Anaheim is served by seven public school districts:

Anaheim Elementary School District
Anaheim Union High School District (takes students from the mentioned elementary school districts)
Centralia School District (elementary school district)
Magnolia School District (elementary school district)
Orange Unified School District
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District
Savanna School District (elementary school district)

Anaheim is home to 74 public schools, 47 of which serve elementary students, nine are junior high schools, fourteen are high schools and three offer alternative education.

Private schools in the city include Acaciawood Preparatory Academy, Cornelia Connelly High School, Fairmont Preparatory Academy, Servite High School and Zion Lutheran School (PS2-Grade 8).

Higher education

Anaheim has two private universities: Anaheim University and Southern California Institute of Technology (SCIT).

The North Orange County Community College District and Rancho Santiago Community College District serve the community.

Libraries

Anaheim has eight public library branches.

Transportation

In the main portion of the city (not including Anaheim Hills), the major surface streets running west–east, starting with the northernmost, are Orangethorpe Avenue, La Palma Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, Ball Road, and Katella Avenue. The major surface streets running south–north, starting with the westernmost, are Knott Avenue, Beach Boulevard (SR 39), Magnolia Avenue, Brookhurst Street, Euclid Street, West Street/Disneyland Drive, Harbor Boulevard, Anaheim Boulevard, East Street, State College Boulevard, Kraemer Boulevard, and Tustin Avenue.

In Anaheim Hills, the major surface streets that run west–east include Orangethorpe Avenue, La Palma Avenue, Santa Ana Canyon Road, and Nohl Ranch Road. Major surface streets that run north–south include Lakeview Avenue and Fairmont Boulevard. Imperial Highway (SR 90) and Yorba Linda Boulevard/Weir Canyon Road run as south–north roads in the city of Anaheim, but north of Anaheim, Imperial Highway and Yorba Linda Boulevard become west–east arterials.

Seven Caltrans state-maintained highways (in addition to the aforementioned surface streets SR 39 and SR 90) run through the city of Anaheim, four of which are freeways and one being a toll road. They include the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5), the Orange Freeway (SR 57), and the Riverside Freeway (SR 91). The Costa Mesa Freeway (SR 55), and the Eastern Transportation Corridor (SR 241 toll road) also have short stretches within the city limits.

Anaheim is served by two major railroads, the Union Pacific Railroad and the BNSF Railway. In addition, the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC), a major regional transit station near Honda Center and Angel Stadium, serves Amtrak, Metrolink, and several bus operators, and the Anaheim Canyon Metrolink station serves Metrolink's Inland Empire–Orange County Line. ARTIC is a proposed stop on the proposed California High-Speed Rail network.

The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) provides bus service for Anaheim with local and county-wide routes, and both OCTA and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority operate bus routes connecting Anaheim to Los Angeles County and Riverside Transit Agency operates one bus route to serve Riverside and San Bernardino. Also, Anaheim Resort Transit (ART) provides local shuttle service in and around the Anaheim Resort area, serving local hotels, tourist attractions, and the Disneyland Resort. Disney GOALS operates daily free bus service for low-income youth in the central Anaheim area. A proposal for streetcar service along Harbor Boulevard was rejected in 2018.

Anaheim is equidistant from John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport (15 miles), but is also accessible from nearby Los Angeles International (30 miles), and Ontario (35 miles) airports.

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