Aliso Viejo Business Automation Services

Aliso Viejo, California sits in the rolling hills of southern Orange County, a planned community that incorporated in 2001 and has grown into a dense, professional, family-oriented city of roughly 51,000 residents.

What makes Aliso Viejo unusual among Orange County cities is how tightly its economy is wound around a single master-planned commercial spine: the 900-acre Pacific Park business park and the adjacent Aliso Viejo Town Center.

Together these two areas host the bulk of the city's office tenants, medical practices, technology firms, and retail operators, giving Aliso Viejo an unusually concentrated, walkable business geography for a city its size.

The numbers tell a story of high-income, high-cost, highly educated professional life. Median household income sits at $142,439, nearly double the national figure, while the cost of living index of 152.2 means every dollar of overhead, whether payroll, lease, or vendor cost, runs meaningfully higher here than almost anywhere else in the country.

Unemployment holds near 3.3%, reflecting a labor market that is effectively at full employment.

For a local business owner, that combination is the central operating challenge of the city: demand is strong and residents have money to spend, but finding, hiring, and affordably retaining staff for repetitive administrative and customer-facing work is genuinely difficult when the state minimum wage sits at $16.90 an hour and fully loaded labor costs in Orange County routinely exceed $25 to $30 an hour once payroll tax, benefits, and overhead are included.

The employment base reflects the professional character of the city. Census data on where Aliso Viejo residents work shows Professional, Scientific & Technical Services as the single largest sector (roughly 4,460 workers), followed closely by Health Care & Social Assistance (about 3,573 workers) and Manufacturing (around 3,049 workers).

Microchip Technology maintains a significant campus presence in the city, a legacy of the former Microsemi headquarters that Microchip absorbed in 2018, anchoring a cluster of semiconductor, electronics, and engineering-services employment.

Soka University of America, a private liberal arts college on a 103-acre hillside campus, adds an education and knowledge-economy dimension along with a steady stream of student and visitor foot traffic for nearby retail and food service.

Covenant Care and Hoag Health Center represent the healthcare and senior-services sector, while Apex Parks Group, an operator of family entertainment venues, is headquartered in the city.