Communities
Cities within ten miles of Santa Ana include Tustin, Orange, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Tustin Foothills, Garden grove, Anaheim, and Villa Park.
According to the 2000 census figures, Santa Ana has the largest population, by percent, of Latinos of any of the fifty largest cities in the United States – greater even tan the border city of El Paso, Texas. That is a fairly recent development, as Santa Ana had been, for at least its first hundred years, populated primarily by non-Hispanic white residents, most of whom were fairly recent arrivals from the South or the Midwestern states. The shifting cultural make-up of the city has further enriched the arts and culture aspects of the city, but it is such a recent trend that it is difficult to authoritatively typify the nature of Community in Santa Ana today. It is a city in a dynamic moment of becoming where matters of culture and community are concerned.