A 1950s building boom
Garden Grove's official history describes a post-World War II real estate boom, with about 1,400 people moving in each month by 1956, the year the city incorporated with 41,238 residents. The Census numbers show the result today: a median year built of 1965 for the city's 50,960 housing units, with 36 percent built in the 1950s alone and about 61 percent built before 1970. Houses from that decade are now around 70 years old.




